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Sir David Christopher Veness, CBE, QPM is a British former senior police officer and United Nations official. He served as Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations in the Metropolitan Police from 1994–2005, leaving to serve as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security.
Sir David Veness, CBE QPM is Senior Advisor at the Pilgrims Group, a Former Under-Secretary General of the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) and ex-Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner dealing with counter terrorism and security. The following article was published in City Security magazine.
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Counter-terrorism strategy has undergone a remarkable development in the early years of the 21st century.
Contrasting concepts and structures have been applied in different jurisdictions. Interestingly, the last 18 months has seen increasing convergence between various strategic models. Encouragingly for the UK, the emerging consensus closely resembles the UK structure – hence the strong international appetite to learn about UK counter-terrorist strategy and apply it as appropriate to local contexts.
Good news for the UK government, for UK government and overseas government arrangements (G2G) and for vital UK private sector support to these efforts, notably security exports and security services provided overseas.
Analysis of counter-terrorist strategy development paths is perhaps assisted by consideration of three broad approaches.
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Counter-Terrorism in the 21st CenturyWriting for City Security Magazine, the former UN security adviser and Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner says three divergent methodologies increasingly form a three-pronged approach to the global terror problem.
Sir David Veness, CBE QPM, Senior Advisor to the Pilgrims Group
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