Welcome to our active armed offender course. Based on the Australia-New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee’s 2023 Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, this course is designed to train business operators and individuals to better plan for and respond to armed offender incidents in crowded places.
Australia’s Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism states that all owners and operators of crowded places have the primary responsibility for protecting their sites, including a duty of care to take steps to protect people that work, use, or visit their site from a range of foreseeable threats, including the threat of terrorism.
Crowded places are a preferred terrorist target because of the high volume and concentration of people making them attractive to attack. Crowded places pose a broad range of security challenges for owners, operators and those responsible for protecting the location.
Globally, active armed offender attacks have occurred, and continue to occur, in crowded places such as shopping centres, sporting stadiums, transport hubs and entertainment venues.
It is the responsibility of both government and private sector stakeholders to work collaboratively to ensure that integrated and effective plans and arrangements are in place to prevent or reduce the impact of terrorism.
We recommend that owners and operators also complete, and encourage all staff to complete, the ‘Active Armed Offender Training for Individuals’ training course.
