The Project Servator patrolling method has been a go-to way of securing major events since the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which we featured at the time on a visit to Glasgow. The latest example of its use was around the G7 summit of world leaders, when Boris Johnson was host at Carbis Bay, north Cornwall, in Read More
Sizewell on the Suffolk coast is the latest and last nuclear site where the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) has gone live with the Project Servator operational patrol deployments method. Police officers are deployed at unpredictable times and places to best disrupt hostile reconnaissance – the information-gathering that terrorists and other criminals need to do to Read More
Heysham nuclear power station on the Lancashire coast is the latest site where the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) are using Project Servator tactics. As CNC lead for Project Servator, Supt Donna Jones, said, trained officers at Heysham will be better placed to recognise the signs of people carrying out hostile reconnaissance or planning criminal activity. Read More
Project Servator, a policing tactic that aims to disrupt a range of crime, including terrorism, while providing a reassuring presence for the public, today (Wednesday 10 February) marks seven years since it was pioneered by City of London Police (CoLP). Professional Security magazine has followed Servator from the beginning – featuring its use at One Read More
Dungeness Operational Policing Unit in Kent has become the latest Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) site to launch the Project Servator patrolling method. Over three editions in spring 2017 we featured Project Servator at Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria, pictured. Then as now, Servator patrols are highly visible and can happen at any time and Read More
Devon & Cornwall Police have begun Project Servator deployments in Plymouth, after a trial in Exeter. As featured over recent years in Professional Security magazine, Servator seeks to disrupt a range of criminal activity, from theft to terrorism, by visible and unpredictable police deployments. Each at varying times and places is made up of officers Read More
As the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions ease and more public spaces open again, police in London are asking the public and businesses to be vigilant for suspicious activity. Chief Supt Dawn Morris, head of the Met’s Protective Security Command, said: “Over the past few weeks lockdown has meant that we have not been able to go Read More
Servator training continues to spread around the UK. Cheshire Police are now an accredited Project Servator force after a nine- month trial from June 2019 in Chester city centre (pictured). Briefly, Project Servator is a policing tactic, used to disrupt a range of crime. City of London Police began it in 2014; Professional Security magazine Read More
Project Servator – the UK policing tactic used to disrupt crime, notably terrorist hostile reconnaissance – is being trialled at East Midlands Airport. As featured in Professional Security magazine since 2013, Servator sees police also draw on businesses, other partners and the public. It’s in use in various parts of the UK, including the whole Read More
Police in New South Wales are introducing a policing tactic pioneered in the UK, used to disrupt a range of crime and maximise public safety. Project Servator sees police, businesses, community partners and the public working together, and is in use around the UK, including London, after the City of London Police force (pictured) began Read More
