The Monitor is the Institute's homeland security and resilience publication which is produced ten times a year. Encompassing a range of issues at strategic, operational and tactical levels relating to man-made, man-assisted and natural emergencies and disasters.Issue: Dec 2007, Vol. 6, No. 10
Tasers: ready for a national roll-out?
FREE ACCESS. RUSI’s Head of Homeland Security Capabilities examines the recent decision by the Metropolitan Police Force to postpone the roll-out of non-lethal Taser weapons to non-firearms officers.
Tobias Feakin
Profiling: a dilemma in counter-terrorism
Where does profiling end and racism begin? Is the line between them too thin to enable profiling to be used efficiently as a counter-terrorism tool in liberal democracies?
Joe Charlaff
Joint Terrorism Task Forces: A user’s manual
FREE ACCESS. This article explores how a joined-up US approach is having a dramatic impact on counter-terrorism initiatives and how the model could be applied in other countries.
Richard Weitz
Reducing cash-in-transit vulnerability to attacks
Cash is essential to the smooth running of the UK economy, but the couriers that transport it are extremely vulnerable to attack. This article explores the initiatives being set up to ensure that the problem is kept under control.
Natalie Whatford
Terry Waite on human resilience
The most important part of any resilience plan is the people caught up in the event. At RUSI’s recent UK Resilience conference, former US hostage Terry Waite gave his advice for coping with whatever situation you may find yourself in.
Terry Waite