Licensing & regulation
What is the counter-terrorism duty for premises?
Legislation places requirements on those responsible for certain publicly accessible premises and events to prepare for and reduce the risk from terrorism, with obligations scaled to capacity.
It introduces a tiered regime, with lighter requirements for smaller venues focused on procedures and awareness, and more substantial ones for larger premises.
For a security contractor it changes what clients need from them: staff awareness, documented procedures and evidence of training become contractual expectations rather than differentiators.
Implementation has an lead-in period and a regulator, so what applies and from when is a question to check rather than assume.
What goes wrong in practice
- Assumed to apply only to very large venues.
- Training delivered without records that would evidence it to a regulator.
- Procedures written centrally and never made specific to a site.