NaCTSO launches new ACT app

The National Counter Terrorism Security Office has said that the new, easier-to-navigate Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) app will provide practical advice and guidance to help you protect your business, plus information on how to respond in the event of an attack.

Free for businesses, the ACT app will provide access to live-time news updates from UK Protect, information on Counter Terrorism Policing’s suite of ACT training products, as well as emergency response and post-incident guidance.

More than a thousand specialists from across the UK have been helping officers trial this new product, including leading organisations from the security, sporting and retail sectors. It has been developed in partnership with industry specialists from Marks and Spencer and Highfield eLearning.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D’Orsi, said: “We have made crucial information available for our business partners even easier and quicker to access and the added bonus is that it is free. The feedback we have received during the trial phase has been overwhelmingly positive and I encourage everyone working in crowded places – particularly those with a security role - to sign up to use this new tool. We would like everyone to feel that they have a role to play in national security and making the UK a hostile place for terrorists to operate.

“For me the ACT app is a further example of how collaboration and integration between police and the private sector can enhance national security and collectively work to make all communities safer. For some time we have talked about ‘Dare2Share’ and by continuing to embrace and push this thinking we are developing innovative and powerful solutions to security. Importantly the ACT app enhances communication between industry and CT Policing. Our global world is fast paced and there remains an insatiable appetite for immediate information. The feedback from Industry has helped us to design this this ACT app to service that demand – free, readily available and fast to access.”