Drills

In order to fullfill your legal duty to perform quarterly drills, you can:

  1. join us in our upcoming ISPS-events, that are organized in cooperation with authorities and partners or
  2. perform your own. Find some inspiration below.

Organization and performance of port facility security duties

  • Drill 1 – role and structure of the security organisation
  • Drill 2 – understanding of tasks and responsibilities
  • Drill 3 – compliance with obligatory tasks and responsibilities
  • Drill 4 – incident reporting
  • Drill 5 – deployment of external security organization on level 2 or 3

Communication and raising the alarm

  • Drill 6 – PFSO accessibility
  • Drill 7 – suspicious object/package at the security guardhouse/reception
  • Drill 8 – bomb warning
  • Drill 9 – familiarity with communication equipment
  • Drill 10 – tune security procedures with SSO
  • Drill 11 – test alarms or sirens
  • Drill 12 – pamphlet exercise

Access to the port facility

  • Drill 13 – identication systems check
  • Drill 14 – check perimeter
  • Drill 15 – suspicious, unknown load
  • Drill 16 – procedures for access control
  • Drill 17 – unauthorized access with false identity
  • Drill 18 – register of visitors present
  • Drill 19 – undocumented goods
  • Drill 20 – access points close of for level 2 or 3
  • Drill 21 – unauthorized access – unnoticed
  • Drill 22 – sensitive information leakage
  • Drill 23 – open gates and entrances
  • Drill 24 – simulate escalated security level

Restricted areas within the port facility

  • Drill 25 – test measures and procedures
  • Drill 26 – test detection equipment and alarms
  • Drill 27 – marking of restricted areas

Monitoring the security of the port facility

Handling of cargo

  • Drill 34 – cargo inspections check
  • Drill 35 – inventory check including location of dangerous goods/substances
  • Drill 36 – control procedure for goods at escalated security level
  • Drill 37 – freight storage areas check at escalated security level

Delivery of ship’s stores

  • Drill 38 – check procedure for delivering supplies at security level 1
  • Drill 39 – escort delivery (if applicable)
  • Drill 40 – check procedure for delivering supplies at escalated security level

Handling of unaccompanied baggage

  • Drill 41 – handling and screening of unaccompanied luggage
  • Drill 42 – delivery of unaccompanied package

Training, drills and exercises on port facility security

Ferry services

Source: Exercitium. European handbook of maritime security exercises and drills

Fire drills

Visitation

Source: Wees voorbereid op het Onverwachte – Handboek voor Security Training – Jan van Twillert CPP CSP RSE