Acting fast will save lives. Those are the closing words in a five minute video, the latest on the Youtube channel of the UK official Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI).
On the CPNI UK’s Youtube channel, you can view short videos on various physical and personnel security topics that Professional Security Magazine has featured over the years, such as social engineering, and ‘think before you link’, CPNI’s campaign asking people – not only the obvious security risks, but the likes of engineers in firms that do government contract work – to be aware that foreign states may seek to link with them over professional social media platforms, and then befriend them, but only with the aim of using them, such as to learn industrial or other secrets. More in the June 2021 print edition of Professional Security Magazine.
But the latest video, titled ‘Cafe Lockdown Drama’, details from the point of view of a coffee shop barista in the fictional ‘Hamilton Shopping Centre’, what to do if – as the shop worker witnessed by leaving her cafe to see what was causing people to flee past her premises – a man is stabbing people on the mall.
The video show the cafe worker locking the glass door to her premises, switching the lights off; and having her customers, and other shoppers brought inside, hide behind the counter, while the woman calls 999 on her mobile phone. This was putting into practice the ‘hide-tell’ part of the ‘run-hide-tell‘ official advice by police if faced by a marauding terrorist attack.
Search for CPNI UK on Youtube; or for the ‘Cafe’ video alone, visit the CPNI website: https://www.cpni.gov.uk/marauding-terrorist-attacks-1. There besides viewing the video and transcript, you can look at guidance documents and other advice, as developed by CPNI with Nactso (National Counter Terrorism Security Office).
The video’s message: have lines of communication with your neighbours; be vigilant; and know what to do in the event of such an attack.
For further advice, CPNI ask you to contact your local police force Counter Terrorism Security Adviser (CTSA) or a CPNI recognised security professional.
