Action Counters Terrorism campaign
The national lead on counter terrorism has announced plans to launch a national counter terrorism public awareness campaign on 6 March 2017.
The focus of the campaign is the critical role the public can play to defeat terrorism, and we have been asked to help spread the word.
The terrorist threat has been ‘SEVERE’ for the last three years - meaning an attack is "highly likely". The police, together with our security partners, have been working tirelessly to identify and disrupt the terrorist threat, while at the same time raising public awareness of the risks and how we are responding.
This new campaign urges the public to report suspicious activity to help prevent terrorism. In the past, lives have been saved and terrorists have been thwarted thanks to the public coming forward with information. The campaign will be the first under the new branding platform called ACT.
The first campaign to utilise the ACT platform will be a national public awareness advertising campaign, called “Make Nothing Happen”, and will be launched on Monday 6 March.
This campaign urges citizens to contact police about suspicious activity by calling the anti-terrorism hotline or by using the online reporting form. It will run across radio and digital channels over six weeks.
More details to follow when the campaign launches.
