Terrorist Operational Planning Cycle

Terrorist Operational Planning Cycle

4-hour Operations Level Course for Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Fire, EMS, Critical Infrastructure and Special Operations Teams (Tactical and Hazardous Device)

This 4-hour course identifies how terrorists use a structured methodology to plan their operations. Pre-operational surveillance of the targets location and behavior patterns are critical to the success of the adversary missions. In this module, students learn how terrorist groups plan their operations and methods to conduct surveillance, the indicators they project, and the countermeasures that public safety agencies can use to disrupt terrorist planning.

Participants will describe how terrorist groups plan their operations and conduct pre-operational attack surveillance. Demonstrate the indicators of surveillance and basic counter surveillance methods. Information in this course can be applied to your daily operations, investigations, planned events and special operations.

Students will conduct the following:

• Changing Al Qaeda management and organizational structure

• Al Qaeda patterns and trend analysis

• Terrorist Planning methodologies

• Criminal Elements

• Detecting surveillance and suspicious behavior

• Countermeasures

Date: March 8^th (Monday) 0830-1230

Registration: To reserve a seat please contact [email protected] no later than March 1, 2010 with agency name, title and contact information.

STUDENTS MUST BE A MEMBER OF A PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY TO ATTEND AND MUST HAVE PROPER I.D.