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Restricted "Its in the bag" EAASP Conference, Bruges, Belgium 20 th April 2016 Richard Ainsworth-Smith SO15 Cargo Unit - Counter Terrorism Command Metropolitan Police, London
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Restricted Current conflicts 2016 Militants from 86 countries have entered Syria and Iraq. Demographic breakdown (approximate): Tunisia 3000 Saudi Arabia 2500 Russia 2400 Jordan 2000 Germany 760 France 700 (up to) 1800 UK 700 (up to) 1500) Belgium 440 Sweden 300 Austria 300 Netherlands 250 Spain 100 Italy 80 Europol 2016 - 3000-5000 'overseas trained' Jihadists in Europe CIA Statistics December 2015
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Restricted Al Shabaab UK residents who have fought with Al Shabaab in Somalia and Kenya number approximately 200. The number of UK 'residents' who are currently assessed to be overseas in Somalia for illicit purposes number between 30-50. It is suspected up to 1500 Europeans have attended overseas training with Al Shabaab. Various open source reporting sources
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Restricted Cash and Travel Documents
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Restricted Typical Clothing – ISIL/Daesh
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Restricted Clothing and Satellite Phones
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Restricted Examples of Night Vision and Body Armour
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Restricted Heathrow August 2014 - CFL
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Restricted February 2016 - Spain
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Restricted GoPro Action Cameras
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Restricted Camping gear/GPS/Medications
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Restricted Examples of Solar Chargers
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Restricted Female travellers – Jewellery & Make Up
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Restricted Examples of High Calorific Food
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Restricted Cooking Items
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Restricted Proliferation Items of Interest
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Restricted Counter Proliferation Items
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Restricted Examples of Khat
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Restricted Items of potential interest (historic) RS Components/Maplin Electronics
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Restricted Communications – October 2014 "I am travelling back to Heathrow on weds T5 with mum…." "Ok, U will b stopped. Keep a clean phone, yr mum will be made to wait outside office. U will be fine, its easy…keep a clean laptop too. Delete any messages, this app is safe...be in touch.." "Ok thanks, I will be in touch when I arrive home…brothers send regards…"
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Restricted Distraction Methods
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Restricted Case Study – Recent find Heathrow
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Restricted A shirt….?
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Restricted Its still a shirt!?!
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Restricted A packet of razor blades
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Restricted A Micro SD Card!??!
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Restricted Case Study - Another recent find
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Restricted Stitching opened – poor bear!
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Restricted Bad bear!
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Restricted Other examples of recent finds
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Restricted More recent finds
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Restricted One to watch out for….
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Restricted The end If you are in doubt, please don’t let it travel! Any questions?
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