Civil/Homeland Security
This section provides an introduction to websites addressing 'Civil Security' - counter terrorism, emergency planning and community cohesion. Not all of these subjects have been seen as traditionally areas of concern for crime and disorder partnerships and community safety teams. Civil security is allied to community engagement and in many ways this provides the fourth corner of the security block.
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The events of 9/11 in the US and 7/7 in the UK, brought the issues together and placed them within the sphere of interest of those concerned with the civil aspects of public protection and community cohesion as well as those having a more direct concern with the prevention of terrorism through military and policing activities.
Since 7/7 UK emergency services agencies have worked closer together both in both response capacity building and incident training. As an example the London Emergency Services Liaison Panel's Major incident Procedure Manual provides a good practice example of the type as well as illustrating how major incidents are being dealt with in the London metropolis.
Work on the development of longer term community based preventative activities continues and the detailed guidance to support those working in this field, The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partnerships and the booklet Preventing Violent Extremism: A Strategy for Delivery, are two signifcant publications in this area.
The links on this page are to the key UK agencies concerned with Civil Security.
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Civil Security (General) Links
Community Cohesion & Community Conflict Resolution
Web pages of the UK government department concerned with the effective development of community cohesion and community engagement.
UK Resilience - A Cabinet Department Concerned with National Security
This link is direct to the 'Capabilities Programme; the aim of which is to ensure that a robust infrastructure of response is in place to deal rapidly, effectively and flexibly with the consequences of civil devastation and widespread disaster inflicted as a result of conventional or non-conventional disruptive activity.
Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
This is the homepage of the CPNI (launched 1 February 2007) which has been created by the merger of the National Security Advice Centre (NSAC) and the National Infrastructure. The UK Government authority which provides protective security advice to businesses and organisations across the national infrastructure.
RUSI Homeland Security and Resilience
This page is about RUSI's Homeland Security and Resilience Department. The Department is a professional forum for decision makers etc.
Resilience and Response to Emergencies - Communities and Local
Web pages from the UK government on preparing for emergency planning response.
The website of the London Resilience Partnership. The Partnership works to ensure London is ready to cope with any incident that might occur -whether it's natural, accidental or malicious.
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