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Old 3rd March 2003 | 08:41
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Helinut
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And in a nutshell, that is exactly what we need to get over to those people who have been mislead by the Mirror's garbage. We have to work on the assumption that they are reasonable people, but misguided by the misinformation in the tabloid.

My only worry is that the "decision-makers" in this are the same as the ones who have "exclusion zones" around some prisons and nuclear installations. It is clear that these have no significant effect on reducing the risks to these places, but we continue to have them anyway.

Looking at how these things have happened in the past, such zones are created by the DAP bit of the CAA. I have talked to them about prisons, and they indicate that these zones were a response to a helicopter hijack jailbreak in the UK and a small number of others that continue too happen through world. They simply get requested by the Home Office (the UK dept responsible for prisons). Because the Home Office request it DAP does it. There is no evaluation of the risk, or the effectiveness of the measures that the zone provides or consideration of alternative and far more effective steps that could be taken.

The quality of "our" response is important. It needs to be well-argued, well-timed and well-directed if it is to have the desired effect.
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