Original scientific paper
MEASURES OF PREVENTION FROM TERRRORIST AND OTHER MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (PART I)
Damir Kulišić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8554-4482
; Visoka policijska škola, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Security and protection managements/managers are increasingly made aware of the available approaches to security and protection of components and systems of critical infrastructure at the national, local and transborder level and of the enormous importance and possible benefits from the systematic, thoroughly and professionally conducted procedures of integral hazard analysis and assessment of the nature and proportions of threats/risk levels from every kind of threat/hazardous events with special emphasis on those of terrorist, guerrilla, organized and individually criminal or other malicious nature, which have not been systematically studied – especially not with complex and sophisticated and thorough analytical approaches and reliable analytical tools. Starting, among other, from the current demands defined in the „Rules on methodology for risk assessment and plans for the protection and rescue“ («Narodne novine», No. 20/06), the general sequence and main components of this procedure and main general elements are shown for the professional judgment of hazards from possible terrorist activities from the point of their aims, acting principles, targets of assault tactics and available specific “modus operandi”, of enormous importance for the efficient control of directly threatening or actual threats as well as for efficient and economic management of integral safety, defence and protection of elements and whole facilities of critical national, local and transborder infrastructure from all kinds of possible hazards and threats. In such complex issues and tasks, adequate level of social, specific organizational and individual safety culture, together with adequately stimulated appropriate human and material resources (adequate to the needs) constitute a “condicio sine qua non” for any real chances of success.
Keywords
critical infrastructure; integral security; terrorism; highly sophisticated crime; organized crime; major accidents; hazard analysis; threats/risks assessment; general security issues; general intelligence issues; levels of security and safety
Hrčak ID:
27246
URI
Publication date:
7.10.2008.
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