PRINCIPLE 3 If the threat assessment cannot confidently discount victim operated EO then appropriate procedures should be used as mitigation.
Appropriate procedures should be matched to both the threat and the environment. This is built on MA’s significant experience of clearing anti-personnel mines and means that there must be confidence that the procedures and tools are suitable to find any EO that has been assessed as being present.
For example, there is no point specifying that a metal detector must be used inside a concrete building, or that a tripwire feeler must be used if there is no threat of tripwires.
Image 3. In this example the threat of tripwires has been discounted and the searcher is only using a metal detector to search for subsurface IEDs
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