INVICTM Tabletop exercise: Q&A with INVICTM Chairperson Sue O’Sullivan

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.

In this video, INVICTM Chairperson Sue O’Sullivan answers the questions: “What is INVICTM? How did INVICTM’s leadership formulate the idea of training to address the needs of both victims and first responders following a terrorist attack? Why did INVICTM choose to work with Canadian and UK law enforcement agencies on this project?”