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Liable for not
doing enough?
After a London Bridge-style terror
attack, might businesses that had not done enough security beforehand be
held liable, even under corporate manslaughter law, Lord Toby Harris asked
at a seminar on crime and policing in London.
Resilience report
He was among the speakers at a Policy Forum for London event at Sixty
One Whitehall in October. He was responding to a question from the floor
after his talk on terror preparedness and resilience in the capital, arising
from his review for Mayor Sadiq Khan, on London’s preparedness to
respond to a major terrorist incident, published in October 2016.
Try and get by?
The question about ‘community resilience’ asked how to get through to
businesses or people that don’t feel that such counter-terror preparedness
is their responsibility. While he hoped that people were not like that,
he added that some may try and get by, on the basis that others will get
involved. Besides the duty of care to staff and customers, Lord Harris of
Haringey spoke of a ‘wider civic, social responsibility, that they should
be taking these things seriously. I do wonder whether these organisations
that have failed to take sensible measures or to ensure staff know what to
do in the event of a serious incident might have liability, or even corporate
manslaughter, in the event of something dreadful happening.” He likened it
to the crime of ‘locking and bolting and putting chains on a fire door’ in the
event of fire at a premises.
Traffic works
Another question from the floor raised the question of London’s worsening
traffic and how that might hold up an armed police response to a terror
attack. Lord Harris recalled the recent attacks at Westminster Bridge,
London Bridge, Finsbury Park and Parsons Green; and despite sometimes
‘horrendous traffic’, ‘actually the response is quite fast’. He added that he
had spoken to some of the officers involved, and it was pleasing how traffic
somehow manages to part for police to pass with sirens. Other speakers at
the seminar, attended by private security managers for London business
improvement districts, central government civil servants; from the SIA,
Dave Humphries; London politicians, and chaired by London Assembly
members Steve O’Connell and Unmesh Desai, included Sophie Linden, the
deputy mayor for policing and crime; and on cyber security, Det Chief Supt
Glenn Maleary of City of London Police. See also page 44. p
l Pictured; London Bridge bollards put up after the June attack; and at
Canary Wharf, a security officer on a police-style beat at the Tube station.
www.professionalsecurity.co.uk
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