It’s a sad and worrying reflection of the times we live in that the need for a powerful, empowering Counter Terrorism planning software solution has never been greater.
Forget the after-the-fact political arguments and semantics around whether attacks are or are not “terror-related”. The plain fact is that terror and attack threats of all kinds and particularly those that target large-scale public or VIP events need the most effective and proactive counter measures.
For law enforcement agencies, Counter Terrorism teams and others responsible for safeguarding lives at such events and for protecting critical national infrastructure, rapid and precise planning are critical.
Time lost, lack of precision, inefficient use of resources, and vital details and vulnerabilities overlooked or unseen all significantly increase the risk of harm that can result from critical actions delayed or not taken.
So, what’s the answer, when these threats seem to be escalating in number and potential severity?
Have traditional CT planning methods timed out?
Continuing to use traditional or legacy CT planning methods with only rudimentary general purpose tool support adds time, cost and risk by default. It means that CT professionals have to rely on lots of labour-intensive, time-consuming (and tiring) manual analysis. And this can include numerous non-essential site visits in the earliest stages of planning just to arrive at a well-founded set of priority threat sites. The end result is planning that unavoidably lacks speed, precision and rigour.
In the digital age, this situation should not, and cannot, continue. It puts lives and infrastructure at heightened risk. It leads to unsustainable escalation in costs, through too much time being clocked up by the ineffectual use of core resources, and very often the addition of extra, maybe unnecessary, resources. And it also leads to reputational risk, because when the powers in place to protect us fail, confidence in those forces is eroded.
So, what’s the real answer?
Organisations including the UK Police and the US Department of Homeland Security have adopted CTS-PRAS as their integrated counter-terrorism planning and analysis tool.
Everything at your fingertips, integrated and automated
With the CTS-PRAS software, CT professionals can do all preliminary planning and visualisation without stepping foot on-site. That in itself can save a huge amount of time, but it’s just the beginning. That’s because the CTS-PRAS software:
- Brings together empowering data, automated threat analysis and planning capabilities, including HD 3D mapping and visualisations, all at your fingertips on your desktop or laptop screen
- Eliminates a great many time-consuming manual tasks that would eat up hour after hour if using legacy tools and methods
- Frees up time and resources so that better-informed decisions and critical actions can be taken sooner and at lower cost
- Automatically generates operational best practice response plans and vulnerability reports based on CTS-PRAS analysis, and the decisions taken
- Underpins effective briefing of key stakeholders and justification of critical decision items.
Major events that have benefited from use of this CT software solution include G7 Summits, NATO conferences, the Commonwealth Games, the UCI World Cycling Championships and numerous VIP security operations
A massive leap forward
Such events, and the forces mentioned, have witnessed a major leap forward in CT planning and preparedness. Those that use CTS-PRAS or have seen it demonstrated will attest to a simple fact: no other CT planning solution comes close to offering such a complete set of integrated, data-rich visualisation, mapping and threat analysis and planning tools. It really is a one-of-a-kind solution for empowering CT professionals to reduce time, cost and risk.
CTS-PRAS includes detailed built-in data on the threat posed by the wide range of weapons that could be used by attackers: surveillance and attack drones, sniper rifles and other direct-fire weapons, mortars and other indirect-fire weapons and MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defence Systems). Users can also adapt or extend this data with updated or classified configurations.
In the increasingly dangerous times we are in, those ultimately responsible for critical CT planning decisions owe it to the personnel they command and the lives they protect to at least see CTS-PRAS for themselves.
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