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Emergency Response to Terrorist Incidents

  •   Course Overview

  • This course provides first responders with the knowledge, mindset, and tactical foundations required to effectively respond to terrorist threats and high-risk incidents. Participants will explore how terrorism operates, how attackers think and behave, and the limitations and challenges responders face under intense physical, psychological, and cognitive pressure.

    The training enhances critical decision-making capabilities through threat recognition, situational awareness, and rapid assessment of evolving scenes. Responders will learn how to navigate the natural human reaction cycle in emergencies, manage the fight–flight–freeze response, and execute appropriate actions to minimize casualties, secure the environment, and maintain operational control.

    Using real-world examples—including suicide bombings, active shooter events, vehicle-ramming incidents, and hostage situations—this course equips first responders with practical countermeasures and tactical frameworks such as the OODA loop, graduated response, and close-quarter response strategies. Learners will practice protocols for both armed and unarmed response, communication, evacuation, scene control, and post-incident coordination.

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Course contents

Yaniv Peretz

Instructor

Yaniv Peretz is a founder of Lorin Pte Ltd and a Board Director of the Counter Terrorism Certification Board. He is a highly skilled security professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. Yaniv served in the Golani Brigade as part of the Israeli forces during the pullout from Lebanon and later worked as a security attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, being deployed to various embassies around the world, including in Singapore, Latvia, Spain, and Jordan.
His extensive experience includes serving as Head of Security for Oerlikon in the APAC region, based in Shanghai, as well as in the USA, based in New York. Within this role, he was responsible for company security, fraud investigations, and export control. Yaniv founded Lorin, a company specializing in physical security design, which has been operational for over 15 years. Notably, he took a leading role in counter-terrorism consultation for an installation that was attacked by the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group in Mumbai in 2008.

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