Example 2: VOIED – Pressure plate with linked main charges
A search team has identified a suspect item adjacent to a building. The building’s doorway forms a vulnerable point which the threat assessment indicates would be the most likely location for a firing switch to be located. Before searching through the doorway, the searcher first searched to the right-hand side of the doorway. During this they located what they believed to be detonating cord hidden in the sand at the foot of the wall. They have marked the item with a red ‘T’ and requested an IEDD operator to assist. On arrival, the IEDD operator conducts the first three phases of an IEDD task (arrival and initial questioning, detailed questioning and threat assessment, and evaluation and planning). They develop their own task specific threat assessment, building on the one already applied by the search team. The IEDD operator assessment is that this is a VOIED with the switch in the doorway. The IED had been placed to target security forces for when they assaulted the building and is no longer part of an active conflict. The opportunity the armed group targeted on this occasion was the security forces pattern to ‘stack up’ against walls prior to making entry. The IEDD operator assesses the item that has been identified to indeed be an explosive link from a main charge in the doorway to an additional main charge buried somewhere along the wall or at the corner. The IEDD operator conducts a manual approach and visually inspects the item uncovered by the search team. They also visually identify a ground sign at the corner of the building which they assess might be the location of a main charge.
Image 6. Visual search
IEDD task conduct
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