by Liz Karson | Aug 5, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
Last month I shared two videos with you in an article entitled “Shallow Mount Retractable Security Bollards Shown In Video”. The Raptor is a shallow mount crash-rated security bollard. It has an unusual curved design unlike the cylindrical bollards often shown here. I...
by Liz Karson | Jul 27, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
I found an interesting headline in my alerts from Coventry Live recently. The title read “Why Coventry city centre’s anti-terrorism barriers have been transformed”. I wanted to further investigate this transformation since I have yet to write about...
by Liz Karson | Jul 13, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
I recently found a 45-page pdf student guide document online entitled “Introduction to Physical Security” from the Center for Development and Security Agency. The website claims the organization provides “Security education, training, and certification for DOD...
by Liz Karson | Jun 24, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
I have been following and reporting on the controversial barrier gate at Kings Parade in Cambridge England for a little over two years now. I last wrote in February about “Public Concerns Kings Parade Counter Terrorism Barrier Gate”. BBC News reported just...
by Liz Karson | May 11, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
Just yesterday I read an article in Counter Terror Business entitled “New guidance to prevent use of vehicles as weapons”. This led me to the BSI Group site. There you can download (see below) a free copy of a pdf file ‘First standard to mitigate malicious...
by Liz Karson | Apr 1, 2021 | Counter Terrorism
I had never seen the above video available on The Texas Tribune YouTube channel until this week. It shows a compilation of several views of a test done by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute of an anti-terrorist barrier. A flat bed truck is seen crashing into...
