transport security: a national perspective from germany

Inland Transport Security Discussion Forum

31 January 2011 / Palais des Nations, Geneva

Transport Security:

A national perspective from Germany

Franz-Josef Schneiders Transport Security:

A national perspective from Germany 2

Structure of the presentation

� Introduction

� Tasks of my division

� Transport Security and

CIP Activities in Germany

� The IWGLTS

� Questions / discussion



Head of Division at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development

Chairman of the NATO Planning Boardfor Inland Surface Transport

Member of the International Working Group on Land Transport Security

International Working

Group on Land

Transport Security



Civil emergency preparedness /

civil defence in Germany

1. Policy issues and

coordination in the

transport and building

sectors

2. Cooperation with NATO

(TGIST, TGA,TGOS )

Tasks of the Division Z 34



Crisis management

1. Operation of the

situation centres in

Berlin and Bonn

2. On-call duty, reporting

systems and situation

assessment

3. Participation in the

interdepartmental

emergency staff




Security

1. Policy issues and intermodal coordination

2. Protection of critical infrastructures in the

transport and building sectors

3. Cooperation with international

organizations (e.g. IWGLTS)




• High degree of dynamism and complexity in a globalised world

• Global value-chains aimed at interlinking

• Increasing vulnerability of open societies

• The transport sector is elementary for the supply with goods and

raw materials

• Great interdependencies with nearly all other economic setors

• Great macroeconomic impact on employment

• The growth in transport is disproportionate to the growth of the

GDP

Parameters



• Sabotage, terrorism, piracy, criminal activities

• Human and technical failure

• Failure of other infrastructure areas (e. g. energy or IT)

• Natural disasters, accidents, damage, pandemics etc.

Risks of the Transport Sector



Security is not a new issue!

� High security leveli.a. through:

- EC regulations and Directives

(especially ports/airports)

- Customs Law (AEO)

- Law on Dangerous Goods (ADR, RID, ADN

etc.)

- Standardization

- Technology

- Civil emergency preparedness /

Transport Services Act

- KRITIS Guidelines

Balance up to now



Security: singular, mode-

specific, „target hardening“

Goods chain: integrative,

intermodal, dynamic,

complex

Intermodal Aspect



Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan and

National Strategy for the Protection of Critical

Infrastructures

• of June 2009 and November 2010

Basic Principles and Objectives:

• Confidential cooperation between Government and

Industry

• Interdisciplinary approach; “interlinked security“

• Priority of voluntary measures before legal regulations

• Recognize risks and avoid disturbances if possible

• Consequences of disturbances/minimize failures as much

as possible

Strategic Determinations



Prävention

Umsetzung, Übungen

Reaktion

Analyse, Evaluation

Nachhaltigkeit von Maßnahmen zum

Schutz KRITIS

Risk-based approach

�� Priority of risk analyses

�� Definition of protection objectives and “residual

risks“

��Link to crisis management

Cooperative approach

�� Working Group “Security in Logistics“

- Associations + Ministries/Authorities

- Interlinking with civil security research

Instruments



- Criticality analysis

- Vulnerability analysis

- Risk analysis

- Deduction of protection

objectives

Development of

implementation measures,

organisational models,

options of actions etc.

Determination of future

research requirements

Implementation Procedure



INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP

ON LAND TRANSPORT SECURITY

Global Context



� The principles of the IWGLTS

� The four Sub-Working Groups

� Subjects of the last Conference in Germany

The IWGLTS



Established in 2006: Conference of the Ministers of Transport on International Transport Security in Japan

Main objectives: Counter-terrorism in the sector of surface transport

Exchange of information about security measures in the different Member States

The principles of the IWGLTS



Organization:

• participation of government representatives

• conditions of accession

• no permanent secretariat

• internal communication via a “webboard“

• annually alternating presidencies

• one conference per year




Members of the IWGLTS:

Australia Italy South Korea

China Japan USA

Germany Canada

EU MalaysiaObserver status:

France Netherlands

Great Britain Philippines

India Russia

Indonesia Singapore

Israel Spain


APEC

UIC



The four Sub-Working Groups

of the IWGLTS

I. Sub-Working Group Risk Assessment

II. Sub-Working Group Public Awareness

III. Sub-Working Group Mitigating Actions

IV. Sub-Working Group Technology



I. Sub-Working Group Risk Assessment

• lead: France

• suspicious behaviour

• CCTV systems

• main parameters of risk assessment methods for security

• common standard

The Sub-Working Groups

of the IWGLTS



II. Sub-Working Group Public Awareness

• lead: USA

• best practices to promote public awareness

• survey: overfeeding due to too much security

• mutual exchange of information


of the IWGLTS



III. Sub-Working Group Mitigating Actions

• lead: USA

• collection of mitigating smart security practices to

enhance security

• descriptions by the states of the organization of security

issues in the transport sector

• discussion:

preparation of a common brochure


of the IWGLTS



IV. Sub-Working Group Technology

• lead: Australia

• a Catalogue of Equipment for

Land Transport Security

• mutual exchange of information about

research projects

• elaboration of

Reference Guides


of the IWGLTS



• Security partnership (Federal Police and Deutsche

Bahn AG)

• Protection of critical bridges and tunnels (SKRIBT)

• RAILPOL Railway

• The terrorist attacks against public busses in Israel

in the years 2000-2006 and the security measures

developed to counter them

7th Conference in Bonn,

Germany, 2010



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Thank you very much for your attention!

Final remark



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