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Czech gov't plans to enhance protection of busy places

Xinhua, April 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Czech government on Wednesday approved a plan of enhancing the protection of places with a high concentration of people against potential terror attacks, including preventive measures such as information campaign and instruction courses, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka wrote on his twitter.

Sobotka said the new plan is another step the government has taken to enhance security against new threats.

The plan wants to create a national system of soft targets protection that would enable a flexible, complex and rapid response to threatening attacks. It also aims to reduce inflicted damage maximally.

According to the Czech Interior Ministry, the state and society must prepare for potential terror attack, in view of attackers' current tendency to hit easily accessible targets. Soft targets are places with a high concentration of people that have not been permanently protected and are easily accessible, such as shopping, cultural and sports centres, hospitals, clubs, schools, tourist sights and public transport premises.

The Czech government approved an anti-terror package of measures aiming to reduce the risk of terror attack in 2016. Czech police set a permanent phone line last year to give security advice to owners and operators of publicly accessible sites and organisers of sports, cultural and other events. Endit