Project Griffin goes online

City of London Police has this week expanded its pioneering counter-terrorism initiative for personnel in the security industry, Project Griffin, by launching an interactive e-learning package.

Project Griffin was launched by City of London Police in 2004, in conjunction with the private sector security industry, to raise awareness of counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues. It aims to provide and to encourage closer working between the public and private sectors. It has proved popular both nationally and worldwide, with New York and Melbourne among those cities adopting it.

In its original form, Griffin involves a training day, a regular bridge telephone call with input from law enforcement agencies and a strategy to deploy security guards as cordon support and/or high visibility patrols supporting the police service during critical incidents.

“Since 2004, Project Griffin has become an integral part of our counter-terrorism strategy. It has certainly helped us keep the city safe,” said City of London Police Chief Superintendent Alex Robertson at the launch.

Griffin Part II makes the project even more accessible by providing an interactive online e-learning package designed to act as a refresher for those who have undergone the awareness training day.

The package covers essential parts of the Griffin course such as suspect packages and vehicles, hostile reconnaissance and crime scene preservation and has the facility to be updated as and when it is needed.

“Its popularity has already spread across the world, this new package will ensure training remains up to date,” added Chief Supt Robertson.