![]() Sharing national threat levels with the general public keeps everyone informed. It is especially important given the current national threat. Vigilance is vital regardless of the current national threat level. They are a tool for security practitioners working across different sectors of the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and the police to use in determining what protective security response may be required. Threat levels in themselves do not require specific responses from the public. Threat levels do not have any set expiry date, but are regularly subject to review in order to ensure that they remain current. In the absence of specific intelligence, a judgement will need to be made about how close an attack might be to fruition. We know from past incidents that some attacks take years to plan, while others are put together more quickly. The threat level expresses the likelihood of an attack in the near term. Using intelligence and publicly available information to examine the overall aims of the terrorists and the ways they may achieve them including what sort of targets they would consider attacking. This would also analyse the potential scale of the attack. An examination of what is known about the capabilities of the terrorists in question and the method they may use based on previous attacks or from intelligence. Intelligence is only ever likely to reveal part of the picture. More often, judgements about the threat will be based on a wide range of information, which is often fragmentary, including the level and nature of current terrorist activity, comparison with events in other countries and previous attacks. It is rare that specific threat information is available and can be relied upon. ![]() In reaching a judgement on the appropriate threat level in any given circumstance several factors need to be taken into account. MI5 is responsible for setting the threat level from Northern Irish Related Terrorism in Northern Ireland. The threat level for the UK from international terrorism is set by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC). CRITICAL means an attack is highly likely in the near future.SEVERE means an attack is highly likely. ![]()
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