2.3.OPERATIONAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OUTPUT
Operational threat assessment enables the following six Ws to be answered:
WHO?
Who placed, dropped or threw the IED(s)?
WHO?
Who was the target?
WHAT?
What are the components and layout of the IED?
WHEN?
When was the IED(s) placed, dropped or thrown?
WHERE?
Where is the IED(s) located?
WHY?
Why is the IED there? What was it intended to achieve or target?
THREAT SUMMARY
A primary means of communicating the output of the operational threat assessment is a threat summary, which can be fed into the planning process at a variety of levels. This means that whether decisions are being made at the strategic-, operational- or task-specific levels there will be consistency in the approach used in the analysis of the available information.
The information used in the threat assessment process should be recorded in an accessible and auditable way so that all stakeholders can have confidence in the threat summary. In general threat summaries can:
• Produce general assessments for programme-level planning;
• Make recommendations about the classification, categorisation and definition of SHAs / CHAs;
• Support priority setting at various levels;
• Inform decisions related to the release of hazardous areas.
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