■ World Championship Soccer S.A.
Griffin Miller Nederland has, in a co-assistance with the international Security Organization 'The Group NLD' (whitin also Daito) formed a projectgroup concerning the security of the visiters of the World Championship Soccer in South Africa, 2010. Therefor we work on four special services concerning this subject. The factual security will be formed and provided by Griffin & Miller S.A. with local security guards under the supervison of Dutch teamleaders. Furthermore we investigate the posibility of a central dispatch center for the use by major security threats. For further information concerning our Security Services at the World Championship Soccer South Africa 2010, you visit 'Risk Management', topic 'WC Soccer S.A.' on this website.
(bron: Griffin Miller, 2009)
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■ Ahoy Rotterdam chooses for DAITO.
The security department of the multi-functional complex 'Ahoy Rotterdam' chooses for DAITO's special training programs in self defense, crowd management and arresting techniques. Ahoy Rotterdam is a member of the European Arenas Association. This Association was formed in the early 1990's to create a common platform for a number of leading venues in Europe and develop a new circuit for specialized events. Ahoy Rotterdam is visiting by more than a million visitors each year and a range of national and international celebrities.
■ English High Court rejects total loss claim for hijacked chemtanker
CAPTURE by pirates does not render a vessel a total loss, either actual or constructive, a recent ruling by the English High Court has established. The decision has major implications for maritime insurance, according to an analysis produced by shipping law firm Clyde & Co.
Lloyds List, march 2010
■ Terrorist attack fear for Malacca Strait tankers
SHIPS passing through the Strait of Malacca need to tighten up security following reports that terrorists may be considering an attack on a tanker, a circular from the Singapore Shipping Association has warned. However, the document declined to specify which group is suspected of being behind such a plan.
Lloyds List, March 2010
■ Warning of Malacca Strait terrorist attack
Ships advised to beef up security following reports of possible attack on a tanker.
Lloyds List, march 2010
■ Ransom paid to release Pramoni
A RANSOM was dropped by parachute to Somali pirates holding Singapore-flagged chemtanker Pramoni , a statement from the European Union’s Navfor has confirmed, writes David Osler .
Lloyds Luist, march 2010.
■ Self Defense tacticts for the Nepal Army
Daito's Head Instructor Mr. K. Gopal just returned after a training period for the Nepal army. Mr. Gopal introduced the new Dutch martial art 'Kurodaiya' and shows severall self defense tactics out of the Daito Training Manual. New appoinments have been made also for the security education programs and we hope to get back as soon as posible.
Daito, march 2010
■ Continue Reading Iran says will respond to any new sanctions
TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday any country that tried to impose new sanctions on Iran would regret its actions, as the United States and Russia voiced shared concern about Tehran's nuclear program.
Reuters, 16 februari 2010
■ BIMCO urges police to join anti-piracy patrols
LAW enforcement officers should join warships deployed as part of anti-piracy efforts as riding squads, thus getting round Interpol’s self-imposed ban on sharing information with any military force, BIMCO has demanded.
Lloyds List 16 februari 2010
■ Top Taliban commander held in Pakistan
The capture of the Taliban's top military commander in Pakistan followed months of behind-the-scenes prodding by U.S. officials who saw inaction by Islamabad as a major threat to their Afghan war strategy.
Reuters, 16 februari 2010
■ Central database needed to try pirates
EVIDENCE collected after a vessel is released by Somali hijackers should be collected in a central system to allow proper prosecution in the future. Danish shipmanger and owner Clipper Group has called for a centralised international body to harmonise the collection of evidence for prosecution after beginning its own proceedings against the hijackers.
Lloyds List, 15 februari 2010
■ SOMALI pirates have released Indian-owned bulk carrier Al Khaliq
after receipt of a $3.1m ransom earlier this week, according to a statement from the European Union naval taskforce in the Gulf of Aden, writes David Osler. The vessel was hijacked on the early morning on the October 22 last year, 180 miles west of the Seychelles
Lloyds List, 14 februari 2010
■ Three crew dead after 10-month piracy ordeal
THREE crew members were reported to have died in a piracy incident involving the Taiwanese tuna boat Win Far 161, according to statements from Ecoterra’s Kenyan arm, writes Rajesh Joshi in New York. “The three died of malnutrition, disease and neglect over the course of the last month,” Ecoterra said.
Lloyds List, 12 februari 2010
■ US senator threatens to block Obama budget
CHARLES Schumer, a prominent Democratic senator from New York, has threatened to block President Barack Obama’s budget in Congress unless Mr Obama reverses a clause that would downsize the US Coast Guard security apparatus in five national harbours.
Lloyds List, 10 februari 2010
■ Nato marines storm hijacked ship and safely recapture vessel
DANISH marines recaptured a Slovenian-owned bulk carrier on Friday and rescued the vessel’s 25 crew who had locked themselves in a secure room in the accommodation block, writes Richard Meade
Lloyd's List, 8 februari 2010
■ Pirates seize Libyan ship
SOMALI pirates in the Gulf of Aden have captured Libyan-owned general cargoship Rim from a position north of the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor, according to a statement from EU Navfor, writes David Osler.
Lloyd's list, 5 februari 2010
■ Out of Area Training Uruzgan great succes!
The two day training 'Out of Area Afghanistan', organized by our associated partners of "The Group NLD" became a great success. Training was given to scientists who work soon in the hostile area Uruzgan, a province of Afghanistan. The training consisted of extensive and diverse components (Culture, ISAF, Terrorism, Population, Area Survey, etc.) and focuses on staying in such area for participants to prepare for their mission. Daito provided the qualifying part Risk Management - 'Aggression Management & Violence Control'. The training was given at the Jachtslot Mookerheide, the Netherlands.
DAITO/ The Group NLD, 2 februar 2010.
■ UN group calls on more states to prosecute Somali pirates
STATES must be more ready to prosecute suspected pirates, according to an official statement issued following a plenary session of the United Nations contact group on Somali piracy in New York, writes David Osler.
Lloyd's list, 2 februari 2010
■ Daito's Head Instuctor train law enforcement personnel Nepal.
Daito Head Instructor Mr. K. Gopal just traveled to Nepal. He is there for the training of special units of the army and police forces and security personnel. Mr. Gopal (Grandmaster Kurodaiya 10e dan, 7e dan Ju Jitsu, etc.) is a highly skilled professional for the training of such organizations. Mr. Gopal will be returned at the end of Februar.
DAITO, 23 januari 2010
■ UK government seeks to deter use of armed guards onboard
THE British government has sought to dissuade UK-flagged shipowners from resorting to the use of armed guards aboard vessels by refusing to approve Ship Security Plans that contain such arrangements.
Lloyds List, 22 januari 2010
■ Ukraine to join Operation Atalanta
Foreign minister Petro Poroshenko reaffirms Ukraine’s intention to offer special forces troops as part of a vessel protection detachment.
Lloyds list, 29 januari 2010
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■ Somali pirates ask for EU protection
THE Somali pirate gang that hijacked Maran Centaurus was reduced to begging EU Navfor for protection from a rival faction just prior to the release of the very large crude carrier earlier this week, according to media reports from the country.
Lloyd's List, 19 januari 2010
■ Desperate Haitians await foreign disaster relief
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Thousands of people injured in Haiti's massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help as their despair turned to anger. Make a donation on giro 555 and help!
■ Iran blames U.S. "agents" for scientist's murder
TEHRAN - A remote-controlled bomb killed a Tehran University scientist on Tuesday, official media reported, in an attack Iran blamed on the United States.
(Reuters - 12 januari 2010)
■ U.N. experts urge Iraq, U.S. to pursue Blackwater case
U.N. human rights experts called on Iraq and the United States on Thursday to ensure that the 2007 killing of at least 14 Iraqi civilians, which has been blamed on Blackwater security guards, be prosecuted.
(Reuters)
■ UN asked to oversee piracy trials
The UN should supervise the prosecution of those accused of piracy offences off Somalia, according to a letter sent to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon by Ertugrul Apakan, Turkey’s permanent representative to the New York-based organisation.
(LLoyds list, 7 januari 2010)
■ Nigeria pirate attacks fall
PIRACY incidents in Nigerian waters declined last year, with 59 attacks on international shipping and offshore petroleum assets, compared with 69 attacks in 2008, according to figures compiled by Norwegian consultancy Bergen Risk Solutions.
(LLoyd's List, 7 januari 2010)
■ Maersk paid Tanzanian Navy to escort tanker
MAERSK has confirmed reports that it paid for a Tanzanian naval patrol vessel to escort a product tanker in Somali waters as a one-off anti-piracy precaution in December 2008, but is at pains to deny that the practice is regular, writes David Osler.
LLoyds List, 6 januari 2010
■ Obama security adviser says bomb report a shocker
Americans will feel "a certain shock" from a White House report to be released on Thursday on security lapses in the attempted December 25 bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner, U.S. national security adviser James Jones said in a USA Today interview.
(Reuters, 5 januari 2010)
■ Man threatening Jews hauled off flight in Miami
A man who described himself as a Palestinian and said he wanted to "kill all the Jews" was hauled off a Detroit-bound Delta Air Lines flight in Miami and arrested, authorities said on Thursday.
(Reuters, 5 januari 2010)
■ Anti-piracy training for Filipino crew
ALL Filipino seafarers will undergo anti-piracy training under a programme organised by the Philippine government that will start next week. The scheme, which was announced by Labour and Employment Secretary Marianito Roque, will be provided free by local manning agencies.
(LLoyd's List, 5 januari 2010)
■ Kurodaiya New Website
The founder of the Dutch Martial Art Kurodaiya, Mr. K. Gopal, has renewd their website. Kurodaiya is adopted whitin the Daito Training Program specific for the security and law enforcement agency's.
(Daito, 30 december 2009)
■ Indian seafarers press for action on piracy
THE International Transport Workers Federation could launch an international campaign to pressure governments to take more concrete action on piracy if moves by a leading Indian seafarer union prove successful. Plans are still being discussed but one possibility is a global boycott by seafarers of vessels operating in areas affected piracy.
(LLoyds List, 30 december 2009)
■ Afghan suicide blast kills eight U.S. civilians
Eight American civilians were killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, one of the highest foreign civilian death tolls in an insurgent attack in the eight-year war.
(Reuters, 30 december 2009)
■ Pirates fire on SCI tanker off west India
AN INDIAN tanker with around 40 seafarers on board came under machine gun and rocket propelled grenade attack in the Arabian sea only 500 kms off the western coast of India on Monday night, according to reports from the region.
(LLoyds List, 23 december 2009)
■ SOBB refuses cooperation in Dutch Physical Defensibility Program for Security Officers
The SOBB decided to give no cooperation in the further development of a national physical defensibility program, especialy for the private security officers. This program, allready made by Daito in a close cooperation with the Foundation of Educators Risk Management/ Stichting Register Docenten Gevaarsbeheersing (SRDG), contains topics as basic arresting techniques and self defense methods (in compliance with Dutch law), the use of voice/body and further cases as agression management and violence regulation. Daito spokesman Mr. Segboer declares to be disapointed and is now searching for other ways to make this course accessible with a national certification.
(Daito, 22 december 2009)
■ Suspected pirates held, but no one wants to prosecute
The Netherlands has released 13 suspected Somali pirates held on a Dutch warship, on the grounds that no country was willing to prosecute them.
(LLoyds List, 21 december 2009)
■ Authorities hold crew of plane after arms find
Thai security forces seized more than 35 tons of arms from a cargo plane and arrested five crew members after the aircraft made an emergency landing to refuel at a Bangkok airport, officials said on Saturday.
(Bron: Reuters, 12 december 2009)
■ Pakistan eyes new offensive after South Waziristan
The Pakistani army has ended its offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan and may focus on another tribal area to where militants have fled, ministers said on Saturday.
(Bron: Reuters, 12 december 2009)
■ Nautilus asks UK to ditch non-payment ransom stance
Officer union says that payment is only realistic way to free crew seized by pirates
(bron: LLoyds list, 12 december 2009)
■ Iran says needs 20 nuclear sites
Iran said on Saturday it needed 20 uranium enrichment plants to provide fuel for its nuclear power plants, an announcement likely to heighten tension with six major powers over the Islamic state's nuclear ambitions.
(bron: Reuter, 5 december 2009) |
