Representatives from law enforcement and international organizations from around the world have been taking part in exercise 'Black Death', a two-day tabletop exercise hosted by INTERPOL simulating a global bioterrorism attack and its aftermath.

Participants in the ‘Black Death’ scenario were faced with a fictional plague attack involving 10 countries to assist them in identifying critical co-operation and co-ordination issues which would be necessary to respond to such an attack.

“Bioterrorism is the perfect storm of opportunity and motivation and we would be mistaken in treating a worst-case scenario as a remote possibility,” said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble. “This exercise will help focus our joint understanding of the role and responsibility of each of us – police, health care professionals, experts – in response to a bioterrorism incident, as well as identifying possible gaps or redundancies so that we can draw lessons from them.”

•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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