Speaker Biograghy: Graeme spent 30 years as a Police Officer, 16 of them in Special Branch, in Air Freight Intelligence. He identified the lack of a coordinated approach, and was instrumental in forming the National Joint Freight Intelligence Group (Air) NJFIG, combining Police Counter Terrorism Intelligence with UKBA/Customs Intelligence. NJFIG is now recognised and supported by The Home Office and National Security Agencies MI5 and MI6. Graeme was a founder member and Deputy Chair of NJFIG up until his retirement. Graeme is qualified by Counter Terrorism Command in Bomb Scene Management and Terrorism Investigations. He worked on the risk and threat posed by air freight, and was deployed to the viable IED concealed in a printer at EMA in 2008, which brought global attention to the vulnerability of the aviation industry from such an attack. This event resulted in a Home Office Aviation Security Review, of which Graeme was a part due to his role in NJFIG and in recognition of his knowledge and experience.


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

17:15 - 17:40 - Panel Discussion: The changing threat. Or has it?
Synopsis: IEDs in baggage, VBIEDs at the kerb, suicide bombers boarding at LPDs to the USA, bombs in international cargo, drive-by or walk-in shooters – the usual daily concerns. We haven’t heard much lately about shoulder-mounted missile or body implants – have they gone away, or is it because there’s not much an airport can do about them? How about small commercial drones that you can buy at the local hobby store?

Audience will learn:

• Are there discernible patterns, or are we simply subject to the random whims of dozens of radical groups?
• Is the intelligence community sharing everything, so we can be better prepared for the next wave?
• Is the threat to the airport, the airline or the government?
• vWhere are those lines of demarcation for responsibility, response and funding?

Day 3 - 27 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

10:20 - 10:45 - Viable IED in freight aircraft: minimising risk and threat
Synopsis: The presentation will include an overview of relevant events in relation to the viable IED concealed inside a printer cartridge in a freight parcel, discovered at East Midlands Airport in 2008. It will also offer recommendations for reasonable steps that could be taken by those present at the conference to help reduce the risk in future.

Audience will learn:

• How the events unfolded, by a person present at the scene with hands-on experience