What's being done to protect us?
The police, fire and ambulance services are specially trained to deal with major emergencies and have specialist equipment to cope with a whole range of incidents.
Travelling
There is now increased baggage and passenger screening at airports, and where appropriate aircraft carry plain-clothes police. Stronger cockpit doors have also been fitted to all sizeable aircraft.
There are also state-of-the-art surveillance systems at ports and traffic entry points into the UK. Also, all transport operators have emergency plans to evacuate you safely from their services if there is an emergency.
To check on the safety of a particular destination or country, ask your travel agent. Or you can phone the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on:
- 0845 850 2829.
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office website
Improvements
Over the last three years security around vital national resources such as water, energy and transport systems has been improved, safety advice given to potentially vulnerable businesses and locations, and laws toughened to make it more difficult for terrorists to operate here.
A lot of this work has to remain secret so potential terrorists don't get useful information.

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