INVICTM Tabletop exercise: Q&A with Toronto Police Service’s Police Constable Danielle Bottineau

In 2021, the UK National Police Wellbeing Service (Oscar Kilo) and The International Network Supporting Victims of Terrorism and Mass Violence (INVICTM) published the ‘Testing Counter Terrorism responses from a victim and member wellbeing perspective – Design of an International Tabletop exercise for law enforcement in Canada and the UK‘ report.

This report presents a summary of the 2021 International Virtual Counter Terrorism (CT) Tabletop Training (TTX) Exercise. This training exercise was designed to test out agencies’ response for victims and first responders, from a wellbeing and victims’ lens in a terrorist or mass violence incident.

In order to promote the launch of this report and facilitate the spread of its valuable content, Victim Support Europe conducted four recorded interviews with some of the authors of the report.

Read the Tabletop exercise report here:

Testing Counter Terrorism responses from a victim and member wellbeing perspective

In this video, Toronto Police Service’s Police Constable Danielle Bottineau answers the questions: “Did the TTX provide opportunities to test existing victim-centric policies? Has this form of training encouraged Ontario’s law enforcement agencies to address gaps in the provision of post-attack support to civilian victims?”