Amok + Terror: Challenges to Security + Tactics Planning

Damage events caused by amok or terrorist situations present authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) with new challenges for education and training.

Findings from large-scale exercises

Joint exercises involving several organizations and specialist services often reveal the following findings:

• The specialist service-specific work of emergency services that have already been trained is usually carried out excellently: for example, firefighting, technical assistance or medical care are at a high level.
• The assessment of the situation, especially in cases of damage with an unclear cause, often does not take into account the possibility that a life-threatening operational situation (terror or amok crime) exists.
• The first responders do not take enough time to assess the situation.
• It often takes a long time until the actual deployment is completed to establish optimal communication between the responsible specialist services and their managers
• Not enough attention is paid to self-protection directly on site and when providing and bringing in additional forces.
• Long-standing habits when setting up on-site staging areas are difficult to adapt to necessary new tactics.

Findings for exercise concepts

Exercise scripts must take such concerns into account. It seems sensible to use direct feedback and repetitions of individual, even complex, processes to illustrate the differences between the “old” and the “newly necessary” in a way that is immediately comprehensible and tangible.

The participant feedback should be differentiated between the target groups “managers” and “employees”. In this way, constructive criticism reaches the relevant target group directly and can be implemented immediately with high effectiveness in the repetition exercise.

The aim must be to break the emergency services out of “classic thought patterns”, to raise awareness of life-threatening operational situations and to convey the resulting necessary measures for security and tactical planning.

TCRH Mosbach: Competence in safety

The TCRH Training Center Rescue and Help offers education, continuing education, training, research and development for

• Authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS);
• organizations;
• research institutions;
• Company;
• groups of people;
• Individuals.

TCRH Mosbach: Interdisciplinary and cross-organizational/disciplinary

The TCRH Training Center is to save and help

• H.E.A.T. training location Academy;
• a body recognized by the Administrative and Professional Association (VBG) for training and further education in first aid;
• American Heart Association (AHA) Training Site;
• CrisCom Academy educational location;
• Location of the Central Training Center (ZTZ) of the Baden-Württemberg Police and
• Training facility from WEBER Rescue Systems.

Further information:

• https://www.lfs-bw.de/Fachthemen/Einsatztaktik-fuehrung/Sonstiges/Seiten/hinweiseterroramoklagen.aspx [Information from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior for non-police security during operations in connection with terrorism or amok charges]
• https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BBK/DE/Publikationen/Publ_magazin/bsmag_2_17.pdf?__blob=publicationFile [Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief: “Medical Management of Special Situations”]
• https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BBK/DE/Publikationen/Broschueren_Flyer/HEIKAT_Handlungsempfehlungen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile [Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK): “Recommendation for action on self-protection for emergency services from disaster control and aid organizations during operations following an attack”
• http://www.agbf.de/downloads-ak-grundsatzfragen/category/42-ak-grundsatzfragen-oeffentlich-empfehlungen.html [Working Group of Heads of Professional Fire Brigades (AGBF): “Recommendations of the AGBF on cooperation in averting danger in threatening and major police situations”]
• http://www.rotkreuzhandbuch.de/doku.php?id=ebe [Red Cross handbook: “Operations in special situations (EBE)”]
• TCRH: “Second Hit” and the protection of critical infrastructure”
• https://www.hspv.nrw.de/dateien_forschung/forschungszentren/ipk/IPK_Working_Paper/IPK_WPS_003.pdf [North Rhine-Westphalia University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration: ““Shoots and terrorist attacks – hybrid events?””]
• TCRH Mosbach: Education + Training
• TCRH Mosbach: Tactical self-protection
• https://www.ffw-muenchen.de/fileadmin/sfv-muenchen/news/161105-Vortrag-Amoklauf-am-OEZ-SFV-Muenchen.pdf [Munich fire department: “Shoot at the OEZ. Report and experiences of the operation on July 22.07.2016, XNUMX"]
• https://www.bundespolizei.de/Web/DE/04Aktuelles/05Kompakt/Bis-02-2019/2019/kompakt_2-19_file.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=7 [Federal Police: “Life-threatening operational situations. Training for emergencies”
• TCRH Mosbach: Tactical self-protection – challenges for emergency services

Press Release:

• https://www.veko-online.de/archiv-ausgabe-06-2016/820-extra-genug-getan.html [Dr. Reinhard Scholzen: “Have you done enough? Measures against terrorism in a country comparison”, in: veko online]
• https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/bundespolizei-org26532/terror-uebung-frankfurter-hauptbahnhof-10993589.html [Frankfurter Rundschau: “Terror as an exercise in Frankfurt Central Station”
• https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/anti-amoklauf-training-nach-dem-einsatz-kommt-das-zittern-a-678876.html [Spiegel online: “Anti rampage training: After the operation comes the trembling”