Confrontation of CBRN-Terrorism Threats

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Europe today faces a wide range of complex challenges and asymmetric threats, and for this reason Law Enforcement Agencies must be well trained, equipped and prepared to enhance the protection and security they provide to citizens and infrastructures (both critical and public spaces). In this context, COBRA project aims to: • Raise awareness and increase preparedness and response capabilities of South-East Europe LEAs (who act as the exterior protective border line of the EU) against terrorist attacks to public spaces and CBRN threats • Provide specialized training to personnel involved in detecting and mitigating the impact of attacks to open public spaces and managing CBRN risks of critical infrastructures • Invest to the procurement and upgrade of field technical equipment and components for incident response as well as for special training purposes • Share good practices and lessons learnt to efficiently align relevant SOPs in case of cross jurisdictional incidents To achieve the above, COBRA will: • Develop Training Programs and Material related to a) CBRN Attack on soft targets and b) Terrorist Attacks to CIP. The program shall include “Train the trainers” to take place in Greece and “Training” of local stakeholders in Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria. • Prepare a relevant evaluation framework regarding CBRN security and protection and develop a relevant Evaluation and Training Guide • Establish procurement of CBRN and counterterrorism equipment technology & tools for training and operational testing purposes • Organize TTX and field exercises, thematically focused to protect and securely respond to terrorist and CBRN threats against either open public spaces or Critical Infrastructures against • Disseminate and share project results in context of specialized and sectorial workshops to local, national and EU practitioners involved in the aforementioned type of incidents (e.g. police officers, coast guards, private security personnel, fire-fighters etc.).