Terrorism Prevention, Response and Security Training
In-depth Training for First Responders, Security Professionals and Emergency Personnel
A Two-day Workshop Utilizing Case Studies, Lessons Learned, Table Top Exercises and Hands-on Threat Analysis Assessments
Registration for this event has closed. If you would still like to register for this event you must bring this form with you to register at the door the day of the event.
March 10-11, 2008
The workshop will be held in the Market*Access Board Room
4301 Wilson Boulevard (10th floor)
Arlington, Virginia 22203
"Don't depend on the enemy not coming; rather depend on being ready for him." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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"I want to thank you for your dedication on informing law enforcement agencies regarding the threats to our cities and our country by these terrorist forces. I have envisioned significant enhancement in my units level of training and training exposure. Your presentation helped drive the point home. (Lieutenant, Dallas SWAT)
Registration
Time: 7:30 AM
Program
Starts: 8:30 AM
Wrap-up: 4:00 PM
About
the Workshop:
The Terrorism Prevention, Response and Security Training Workshop will compare global insurgency planning and siege tactics applied to scenarios and real-word incidents that America’s first responders, security professionals and emergency personnel could encounter here at home. This two-day workshop will use case study analysis and table top exercises that examine incidents such as school attacks including Ma'alot, Beslan and Virginia Tech, regional airport security issues and tactics and Israeli terrorist incidents. These case study modules pull the lessons learned from each to allow for comprehensive understanding of roles in responding to these incidents here at home. You will familiarize yourself with the latest on security planning and responding to terrorism incidents by participating in threat analysis exercises from both a terrorist and an emergency responder perspective on buildings in the area. Group analysis, planning and response will be encouraged to simulate real-world exercises and incidents.
Attendees will leave the workshop with a clear understanding of the training gaps in typical law enforcement and security training in terrorism prevention and response. At the completion of this course you will know your enemy. You will understand the processes and phases of terrorist attack, the makeup and reasons behind terrorist actions, how terrorist cells train, prepare and adapt as well as the difference between terrorists and active shooters. You will learn how to respond to your enemy. You will understand how to utilize the OODA Loop and how you can observe, orient, decide and act in responding to criminal and terrorist activity, how to prepare and train as well as how to effectively utilize patrol officers to be your department's eyes and ears. Finally you will learn how to prevent your enemy. You will be given a clear understanding of terrorists planning cycles, how to utilize security methodologies developed by Israeli counter-terrorist units and the importance of sound proactive, preventive intelligence.
On the completion of the first day, you will participate in a table top exercise in planning a terrorist siege on a school, from a terrorist perspective. You will develop reasoning behind target selection and understand that target selection is deliberate, not random. You will develop your plan based on specific intelligence and you will learn the essential elements of information needed to carry out an attack and how to collect that information. You will analyze the elements needed to successfully carry out such an attack and take into consideration response tactics, times and routes. Group discussion on individual plans will augment the case study modules that you will be using as a basis for the entire class.
Topics to be addressed will include:
- Challenges faced by first responders
- Radical Islamic terrorism
- Planning and siege tactics to prepare for
- Israeli and other models regarding security planning
- Time criticality and Layering security
- Developing and intelligence capability
- Role of training and technology usage
- Active shooter comparison to terrorist events
- Phases in terrorist siege tactics
- Understanding the "OODA loop" and how to compress it
- Disturbing reflections on what our enemies learned from Virginia Tech
Who
Should Attend:
• Chiefs of Public Safety
• Corporate and Government Security Managers
• Federal Government Uniformed Police Organizations, State Emergency Managers and Homeland Security Personnel
• City/County First Responders
• Law Enforcement Trainers
• State Emergency Managers and Homeland Security Personnel
• Police / Sheriff (Patrol, SWAT, Intel, etc)
• Fire Personnel
• Force Protection Professionals
• Corporate Security/Emergency Planning Officials
• Emergency Management Coordinators
• Emergency Medical Responders
• Security Managers
• ....anyone supporting Homeland Defense!
About Your Instructors:
Joe Bierly, President of Counter-Terrorism Training and Consulting, Inc, will address security planning methodology, intelligence fusion, and practical exercises for prevention and response. Mr. Bierly, Lt. Colonel USMC (ret.), planned and directed US counterterrorism (CT) operations prior to and during the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympic Games and served as primary liaison with the FBI, national and foreign CT response units, and other civilian agencies to augment host-nation CT capabilities. Joe coordinated the activities of the country’s Counter Terrorism Working Group and coordinated US response to a variety of actual incidents to include aircraft bombings, hijackings, street rioting, hostage incidents, and assassination attempts. He planned, coordinated, and directed multiple combined exercises to include world’s largest special operations exercise (2.5 million participants) and the largest counterterrorism exercise ever held.
After retiring from the Marine Corps, Joe consulted for foreign governments on sensitive internal security and intelligence issues. He has also worked on counterterrorism operations and executive protection with private firms. He has spoken on the subject of counterterrorism to audiences ranging from several hundred law enforcement agencies in California to the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. His series of presentations entitled: “Winning the War at Home” has taken the counterterrorism message to over 5500 law enforcement officers.
Joe has a BS from Penn State University, a Masters from Pepperdine University and has attended a wide variety of counterterrorism related courses to include hostage negotiations, SWAT tactics and crisis management courses at the FBI Academy, training in Israel with Israeli security forces, hostage rescue training with Israel’s elite YAMAM unit, and training in multiple terrorist doctrine based on the Beslan School attack.
Justin Gillies, Director Operations and Training of CTC, Inc. Mr. Gillies is a former law enforcement and corrections officer with extensive experience training and developing public safety initiatives for law enforcement, emergency management, fire and other public safety agencies. He spent 10 years as an active law enforcement officer and 11 years as a security consultant for private industry.
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Registration Fee:
- Government attendees: $595 per person
- Small Business (less than 100 employees): $645 per person
- Industry (includes gov't contractors): $695 per person
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Workshop Location:
The workshop will be held in the Market*Access Board Room at 4301 Wilson Boulevard (10th floor), Arlington, VA 22203. Public parking at the facility is available for $9 a day. The NRECA Building is just one block from the Ballston Metro Station in the orange line. Please note: the parking garage and a side entrance to the building is on Taylor Street.
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