News

8 March 2010
NATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORISM CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED

'No call is a waste of time', that is the key message of a national counter-terrorism campaign launched across the UK today.

The public are being encouraged to pick up the phone and report any activity or behaviour which is suspicious or out of the ordinary to the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.

The annual campaign will run for a month on national and regional radio.  Posters and campaign material are also to be circulated which include a picture of what appears to be a normal neighbourhood garage brimming with bottles of chemicals and boxes. It asks the reader to consider what they see and questions whether the garage is being used by a handyman, a pest controller - or whether it is being used as storage by a bomb maker.

While the threat of a terrorist attack in the United Kingdom remains real and serious the advertising campaign has not been launched in response to any specific threat.