National Planning for Critical Infrastructure Protection

CRITICAL UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE


Critical infrastructure may differ from country to country and state to state however they all have one issue in common, they all are obliged to ensure that in adverse conditions such as extreme weather and natural disasters or terror attacks, they can continue to function. Safeguarding critical infrastructure remains a challenging task and threats against critical infrastructure usually cannot be prevented, however damage and risk can be mitigated through cost effective and realistic countermeasures

Security solutions and design

Our security solutions and designs include the following: 

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• Blast mitigation 
• Reinforcing and monitoring of pipe lines, pumping stations, cabling systems, antennas and all other critical elements  
• Protection from land and air attacks 
• High technology integrated security systems including long range CCTV cameras, radar, energy systems and communication 
• Monitoring of perimeter and yard areas 
• Trained and motivated security officers 
• Fast deployment 

MIP Security personnel have undertaken surveys, threat and risk analyses, the security design and implementation for a wide range of infrastructure utilities across the world including gas pipe­lines and storage facilities, electricity stations, substations and pylons and other hazardous materials facilities.

Critical facility protection projects include:

·         Threat & Risk analysis reports for major HAZMAT farms.

·         Physical security study and detailed design for gas con­tainers, pipes and facilities

·         Managing live explosive testing of protection designs for gas pipes and other flammable fuels.

·         Physical protection systems design for electric power supply pylons, including detailed study, conceptual tests, and design and project implementation.

HOSPITALS

Hospitals have particular security concerns in addition to the general safety of the site. These concerns include the pro­tection of hospital property and assets including drugs, the protection of patients including incapacitated patients, the protection of staff, and the safe control of violent or unstable patients. Hospitals are usually vulnerability to damage from terrorism because of their proximity to sensitive targets, or because a hospital is a high profile building with an important role in the public health system.

CASE STUDIES

FUEL STORAGE FACILITY - USA

The MIP Security team was commissioned to perform a Threat and Risk analysis and to design protection for fuel storage facilities in the USA which supply jet fuel to one of the major airports and were subjected to terror threats after 9/11. The analysis took into account the characteristics of the protected facility, deriving a variety of pos­sibilities for an attack and estimating the vulnerability of the facility.

Aspects taken onto consideration included:

·         The terrain of the facilities

·         Security systems and security forces

·         Procedures and operations

·         Operational characteristics such as visitor flow, number of employees and vehicles

·         Possible methods of attack and lessons learned from past attacks

NATIONAL HOSPITAL SURVEY AND CONSULTATION - ISRAEL

Due to the very real threat of a missile attack on the civilian population, the Israeli Home Front command commis­sioned MIP Security personnel to undertake the task of survey­ing hospitals in the centre and south of the country and providing recommendations for the safety and security of each individual hospital during an attack.

Although recommendations included the upgrading of the physical security of each hospital, the main objective was to design safe areas for hospital patients and staff in case of an attack. This included surveying each hospital physically as well as the architectural drawings, meeting with hospital personnel and eventually providing each hospital with a detailed color coded floor plan highlight­ing the relative safety of all areas.


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