Counter-terrorism training for business in UK crowded places: is the desire for quantity to the detriment of quality?

Dylan Aplin; Brooke Rogers

doi:10.1057/s41284-023-00393-2

Counter-terrorism training for business in UK crowded places: is the desire for quantity to the detriment of quality?

Dylan Aplin, Brooke Rogers^*

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There is a dearth of evidence to indicate the effectiveness of counter-terrorism (CT) training for workers in crowded places to achieve their objectives of preventing attacks, helping staff to cope in a critical incident and then return to some form of normality afterwards. This study conducted semi-structured interviews (N = 23) of key stakeholders involved in devising, commissioning, and delivering CT programmes. It was found that lack of regard for adult learning theory, the skills and experience that particularly security officers bring to sessions and a complete absence of structured evaluation mean that the desire to increase the quantity of sessions delivered was to the detriment of quality. A series of recommendations are made to improve the future development and delivery of CT programmes to improve resilience.

Original language	English
Journal	Security Journal
Early online date	13 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-023-00393-2
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Jul 2023

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