WRAP

Workshop To Raise Awareness Of PREVENT

Aims & Objectives• An understanding of the Prevent

strategy and your role within it.

• The ability to use your existing expertise and professional judgment to recognise vulnerable individuals who may need support.

• To know how and who to report to if you have a concern.

PreventPart of CONTEST, the Governments counter-terrorism strategy.

Pursue: to stop terrorist attacksPrevent: to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting

violent extremismProtect: to strengthen our overall protection against terrorist

attackPrepare: where we cannot stop an attack, to mitigate its impact

Prevent ObjectivesObjective 1: Respond to the

ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those

who promote it

Objective 2: Prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and

ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support

Objective 3: Work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of

radicalisation which we need to address

PREVENTThere is no single profile of a terrorist, so you will not leave here today with a checklist of traits to look out for.

This is not about race, religion or ethnicity it is about the exploitation of vulnerable people.

Prevent operates in a pre-criminal space, before any criminal activity has taken place. (DVD 2m:07s)

The source of the problem

“What crimes, big or small, affect you or your community?”

(DVD terrorism 5m:06s)

Social Process

• Influence isn’t exclusive to terrorists or criminals. Were all susceptible to it.

• So what is it that drives us to do things we wouldn’t ordinarily do?

Influence• These are normal social processes

and we can see from this exercise that we all use these processes to influence people in our daily lives, and others use it on us.

• Radicalisers use exactly the same normal social processes of influence when trying to radicalise vulnerable people.

(DVD This is England 6m:52s)

(DVD This is England 6m:52s)

Ideology

• Having seen how a powerful right wing ideology can influence. Let’s look at terrorist ideologies in a wider context and in more detail.

(DVD Terrorist ideologies 6m:58s)

Recognising Vulnerability• There isn’t a checklist of vulnerability

and we can’t always equate vulnerability with “weakness”.

• So, when we talk about ‘vulnerability’ within the context of Prevent we mean individuals who, because of their circumstance, experiences or state of mind are susceptible to a terrorist ideology.

Personal & External Influences

• Group work:

• What factors or influences might make someone more susceptible to the terrorist message.

VulnerabilityPersonal• Identity• Social exclusion• Drug or alcohol abuse• Personal Crisis• Low self esteem• Mental Health• Religion• Links to criminology• Changed

situation/circumstance• Bereavement• Rejection

External• Foreign Policy• Domestic Policy• Unemployment• Group Identity• Media• Propaganda• Internet• Extremist/Terrorist

Ideology• Peer pressure

David Copeland• David Copeland became known as the “London Nail Bomber” after a

13 day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London’s black, Bangladeshi and gay communities.

• The bombs killed three and injured 129. No warnings were given. He was convicted of murder and was sentenced to six life terms.

• Extremist material, lack of trust in political structures and civil society: He was a former member of the British neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, and kept right-wing propaganda material at his home.

• Mental Health: He was diagnosed by five psychiatrists as having paranoid schizophrenia and a consultant concluded he had a personality disorder. He had told his GP he was losing control of his mind a few months before his first attack.

• Low self esteem, personal Identity and social exclusion: He was known to have issues about his height and his inability to form a relationship with women led to accusations among his peer group that he was gay.

Glasgow Doctors• In June 2007, Bilal Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed tried to blow up two cars

packed with gas canisters and petrol cans that they had left outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London’s West End.

• A few days later, they tried to drive a burning jeep into Glasgow airport. Following his arrest, Abdulla who was an NHS doctor, was found guilty of launching a car bomb attack, however Ahmed died of the burns he suffered during the attack.

• Foreign Policy, Lack of trust in political structures and civil society, & Bereavement. It has been reported that Abdulla’s motive was to avenge the death of a friend killed in the Iraq War by a Shia death squad and his hate against the West over Palestine. Abdulla said his motivation for carrying out the attacks was Western destruction of Iraq, first through sanctions that included medicine, the rise of childhood leukaemia that he blamed on depleted uranium armour-piercing shells used in the 1991 Gulf War, and for destruction of infrastructure during the U.S and British 2003 invasion of Iraq.

• Extremist Material & Group Identity: The bombers met in Cambridge in 2004 when Abdulla was studying for his medical practice exams and Ahmed was doing a PhD in aeronautical engineering. The men began planning their attacks in february 2007 and communicated regularly over the internet while Abdulla was working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and Ahmed was living in India. Abdulla had been radicalised by the teachings of al-Qa’ida and al-Zarqawi.

DVD 2m:25s

Andrew Ibrahim

• What personal & external vulnerabilities can you identify from Andrew Ibrahim's story?

VulnerabilityPersonal• Identity• Social exclusion• Drug or alcohol abuse• Personal Crisis• Low self esteem• Mental Health• Religion• Links to criminology• Changed

situation/circumstance• Bereavement• Rejection

External• Foreign Policy• Domestic Policy• Unemployment• Group Identity• Media• Propaganda• Internet• Extremist/Terrorist

Ideology• Peer pressure

Behaviours• Radicalisation is a process, not a one-off

event. During that grooming process people may sometimes pass through a phase of holding extremist but not violent views, before reaching a position where they are prepared to support violence.

• However, at points throughout, it is possible to intervene to prevent vulnerable people like Andrew being drawn into terrorist activity.

• Throughout this workshop you have shown that you understand vulnerabilities and how they might manifest themselves, and with your expertise and professional judgement you are well placed to recognise if someone needs intervention and support.

Raising a concern• Inform your line manager

• Contact the prevent Lead Zoe Mclean. Who is also the adult safeguarding lead, or a healthwrap facilitator

• CHANNEL relies on multi-agency partnership working within existing safeguarding partnerships and crime reduction panels in order to assess referrals of vulnerable individuals that are at risk of being drawn into terrorism

A Mothers Story(DVD 8m:35s)

• You lock your car and front door when you leave them, not because you know there will be a break-in but because, however small the threat is there. The simple act of prevention can reduce that threat.

• This is at the heart of the PREVENT agenda. It operates in the pre-criminal space so this is about supporting and redirecting people. Not criminalising them.

Reflections (DVD 2m 31s)

• Thank you for your attendance.

• I hope that this session has helped to make you aware that we can all have a positive contribution in preventing people from being exploited for terrorists purposes.