National Security Risks: Immediate Challenges Before Summer 2012 is the title of a publication by SIRS Consultancy….
Published by the University of Buckingham Press, this handbook presents policy-makers and practitioners with an opportunity to make critical changes to optimise national security, months before the opening ceremony of the biggest peacetime event in the UK, the London 2012 Olympics. The photo on the cover is of some of the burnt buildings in Tottenham during the August riots, taken from the police cordon by Christian Cullen of SIRS. Other pictures of the riots as they happened in London are in the book.<br><br>Its authors describe it as the first document to encompass all five official inquiries into the 7 July 2005 London Bombings. It also offers its own analysis of the Anders Breivik ‚Äòlone wolf‚Äô attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011 and the August 2011 rioting in England. It covers all key threats, and makes many important recommendations that must authors say be urgently addressed before summer 2012.<br><br>It’s written by SIRS Consultancy, who provide research and policy recommendations on national and international security, carrying out projects across the public and private sectors.<br><br>A foreword is by Anthony Glees, Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham, who is consulted by the media as a ‘terrorism expert’ to comment on intelligence matters.<br><br>‚ÄúI have found this SIRS Consultancy handbook on the National Security Risks leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games to be extraordinarily useful. For the first time the different strands of the threats that are facing this country have been pulled together into one concise document. Having read this I now feel better prepared, better informed and much more ready to understand how threats will develop and how we might deal with them. This is an invaluable piece of work.‚Äù<br>Patrick Mercer, OBE, MP, Shadow Minister for Homeland Security (2003 ‚Äì 2007)<br><br>"A must-read for anyone who does not want to spend hours of their lives trawling through reports and news pages to get accurate, up-to-date information on the threats the UK faces today. This concise document will help you to understand the issues and develop your plans for the future."<br><br>Chris Phillips<br>Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (2005 ‚Äì 2011).<br><br>ISBN 978-1-908684-02-8<br><br>Price: £30.<br><br>Visit the consultancy’s website for details –
