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If we want to live in a free and open society, we need to accept the fact that no security measures can not eliminate all risks of such attacks.
However, there are quite effective methods of protecting people from attacks using trucks.
In the United States, Israel and Britain, has done a lot for the development and testing of such methods, starting with the installation of impressive barriers to imperceptible inexperienced look like mine or yours, changes in the street scene.
Anyone who visits the capital of the country, immediately see that the most important buildings in them are well protected. In London, for example, the parliament building is surrounded by a massive black barriers. In the area of ​​stock exchanges of New York and the barriers erected to prevent the entry of vehicles. In Israel, security measures are immediately apparent to any visitor.
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He was among the journalists who are lucky enough to be present at the trial of one of these methods of protection. I can say that if it was applied in Nice, the truck would be stopped.
Is it possible to turn a modern city into a fortress with the help of such measures? A positive answer to this question was given in Britain in 2009 when tests were carried out protective structures near the Houses of Parliament in London.
massive barriers capable of stopping a moving truck at full speed built there. But just 100 meters from the Parliament is a government district of Whitehall, where many ministries are located.
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There are no such barriers. Although this is not true - there are barriers, but they are so cleverly built into the architecture of the streets that are almost imperceptible. They do not interfere with the passers-by, but any attempt to stop car entry.
The problem is that Western governments seek to protect primarily the official sites. The worst thing that Nice is located far from the capital, with its security measures, and were attacked by ordinary citizens who had gathered to spend the evening.
If terrorists will target their attacks are not objects, where the sights on a national scale, and the so-called "easy targets", then how can you protect yourself?
The British experience
The British government has a special group of experts in the police, engineers, architects and other professionals, which provides advice to the organizers of any public events - from city councils to clubs in the English Premier League, in order to reduce the risks of attacks using cars in crowded places.
The Royal Institute of British Architects also provides consulting services for the planning and design in order to prevent terrorist threats, which thus make it possible not to turn the country into Alcatraz.
These experts come from approved standards that provide protection against shock semitonnogo truck traveling at 80 km / h.
The most famous example of such a plan can be seen at the entrance of the new stadium "Arsenal" in north London. Huge concrete ARSENAL letters at the entrance is also a massive shield that protects it from direct impact. If the entrance to the stadium in Nice, tried to break the truck, these letters would absorb shocks. Most likely, the truck would have crashed them into the cake. Other public facilities in the UK are protected in a similar way.
Of course, it is difficult to imagine a fashionable resort with similar concrete structures on the waterfront. But no one forbids the use of temporary security measures, such as peregorazhivanie streets using concrete barriers.
It is also possible, and the use of more simple methods of protection, such as the chicane - a specially constructed turning on roads with the aim of slowing down the movement of cars - Police provide enough time to arrive at the scene.
Such measures are frequently used during important political events, such as party conferences or summits, but not so often during social events.
whether the attack could, similar to what happened in Nice, happen in the UK? Of course, but that's why the British organizers of public events are obliged to follow the instructions and think over counter-terrorism measures.
These instructions take 81 page, and they require a response from the organizers of a number of important issues, namely:
-Identify Potential threat, it means getting advice from the experts - the police and security services
-Vyyasnit What should be protected, as well as what is the vulnerability of the object
-Predlozhit Protection measures
-Proanalizirovat Experience and created protection system
When the French authorities to examine all the circumstances of the tragedy in Nice, especially the way the truck driver managed to kill so many people, they will give an answer to the question whether they have developed a system of measures to prevent such heinous attacks.