Select all of the tasks that you think are performed as part of an SSA:
The best way to prevent stowaways from boarding your ship is to:
Conduct routine, but irregular searches of the ship.
Conduct a Nominated Officers search.
Search the ship when you arrive at port and again just after leaving.
Seal spaces that are not in use while in port, and perform a search of the ship before leaving.
What do crew, visitors and contractors all have in common?
They’re all employees of the ship.
They’re all on board the ship for the duration of its voyage.
They’re all have opportunity to smuggle drugs.
They’re all trained in ship emergency procedures.
How many different learning styles are there?
Which of these precautionary measures can reduce the threat of piracy, if implemented?
Stay at least 15 nm away from the shore.
Plan to arrive at port at night.
Turn-off all of the ship’s lights at night.
You respond by:
Acting as normal as possible.
Taunting them with the knowledge that help is on its way.
This situation calls for security measures corresponding to Security Level:
All training programs have a beginning, a middle and an end:
Given a mock-up of an explosive device, identify the components of the device with 100 % accuracy:
The best way to ensure you get the equipment you need is to:
Buy the most expensive equipment on the market.
Determine your needs and do some research.
Buy what everyone else is buying.
For a search to be effective it must be:
Conducted by personnel with limited knowledge of the ship’s layout.
Inclusive of all personnel.
If drugs are discovered on board your ship:
Notify the authorities after you arrive at the next port of call.
Write a report a few days after the event and describe everything that occurred.
Disembark crew and passengers as quickly as possible at the next port of call so the authorities can conduct their investigation.
Ensure the witness to the discovery signs your incident report.
Which statement about the use of profiling on board a ship is true?
Only visitors can be profiled.
Detection equipment can be used in place of profiling.
Profilers need at least half an hour to gather the information they need.
A random selection process must be established.
The International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre attributes the increased numbers of hijackings to:
The greater involvement in piracy of well-organized and armed crime networks.
Higher crime rates around the world.
Easy access to military weapons.
Which statement about IED’s is true?
All IED’s have four common components.
IED’s are difficult to manufacture.
IED’s don’t cause serious damage.
Select all of the actions you think crewmembers should take if they locate a suspicious object that may be a bomb:
The purpose of profiling is to:
Make judgements about people based on their appearance.
Get beneath the outer shell of an individual to obtain a more complete picture.
Categorize people based on their nationality and ethnicity.
Identify different personality types.
Ship Security Plans all look the same:
Who is responsible for ensuring your ship completes a security assessment?
Flag State Administration.
Recognized Security Organization.
Company Security Officer.
You’ve just completed a training drill. Which of these guidelines should you follow when giving feedback?
Ask to give feedback or wait to be asked.
Listen to your hunches and give appropriate feedback.
Take a one-hour break for lunch and give feedback after you resume.
Give lots of information and examples.
The middle portion of a training program takes the most time to plan. Which of these items will assist you in planning and delivering this portion of the program?
A description of the content to be covered.
A list of the page references to regulations and other documents that will be referred to in the program.
Using X-Ray equipment, perform a baggage search to locate a small hunting knife. Which instructional technique is appropriate for this objective?
Which of these actions should you take if your ship is successfully boarded by armed pirates?
Scream in fear and refuse to cooperate.
Keep quiet and ignore any questions you’re asked.
Assure your captors, that you’re not planning an attack to overthrow them.
What is the purpose of the Ship Security Plan?
Outline specific measures for your ship to move from security level 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3.
Outline the organizational structure for the ship.
Protect your ship from risks posed by security threats or incidents.
Detail the duties of shipboard personnel assigned security responsibilities.
The best way to identify an IED is to:
Measure the size of the object.
Recognize its components.
Select all of the tasks that you think are performed as part of an SSA:
This ship is operating at Security Level:
Your ship is berthed at a port that is frequently used for drug smuggling. Which of these measures is it appropriate to implement?
Check the identity of everyone boarding the ship.
Secure unattended spaces that visitors have access to.
Limit the number of access points to the ship.
Suspend cargo-handling operations.
During a profiling interview, the service man you are questioning starts to act suspiciously. He is:
Friendly and cooperative.
Professional, courteous and forthcoming.
Talkative and good-humoured.
Nervous, sweaty and trying to avoid eye contact.
Which type of profiling is used to obtain information about rival companies and their employees?
Which of these measures would you implement to prevent drugs from being smuggled on board your ship while it’s berthed?
Maintain restricted areas.
Check a portion of the bags and packages brought on board.
Search some of the packages, spares and stores received.
Eliminate fore and aft deck watch at night.
Which of this information must be included in a piracy attack alert?
The number of pirates/hijackers.
The type of weapons being carried by the pirates/hijackers.
Your ship’s name and call sign.
The number of crew on board.
The most effective way to combat the threat of drug smuggling is to:
Organize crew into pairs and conduct weekly searches of the ship.
Combining routine, but irregular searches of the ship with spontaneous targeted searches.
Perform routine, but irregular searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Perform spontaneous targeted searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Select all of the measures you would implement:
What type of bomb search should you conduct to avoid panic when the credibility of the threat is in doubt and you don’t want to disrupt ship business?
Nominated officers search.
Known hiding spot search.
This is an example of a good learning objective: given a mock-up of an explosive device, identify the components of the device with 100 % accuracy.
Which of these weapons are widely available and commonly used by criminals and terrorists to further their aims?
Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
The individual spends his or her free time hanging out with others.
The individual wears bulky or out of season clothing.
The individual makes small local purchases.
The individual is disinterested in the ship’s cargo.
Which of these statements about profiling is correct?
Verify that answers to questions match up with what’s already known about the person being questioned.
Use only open-ended questions.
Check the ID of all visitors and some crew prior to boarding.
Pay less attention to body language and behaviour and more attention to answers to questions.
Searches are often triggered by:
An increase in security level by the Flag State.
The receipt of a shipment of damaged stores.
News stories of stowaways.
The Declaration of Security:
Details a ship’s security measures.
Addresses the security requirements shared between ships or between a port facility and a ship.
Identifies the security responsibilities of shipboard personnel.
States the reporting procedures to government contact points.
Who is responsible for ensuring that your ship’s security plan meets the requirements of the ISPS Code?
Flag State Administration.
Recognized Security Organization.
Company Security Officer.
Departure and arrival time:
That’s right! Timings such as your ship’s scheduled arrival and departure can be used by the terrorists to determine when to execute their attack.
In which of these circumstances can your ship request a DoS?
Your ship is operating at a lower security level than the ship or port it is interfacing with.
There is a heightened security risk for your ship and a port facility.
Your ship is conducting activities with a port or ship that is not required to implement an approved security plan.
Your ship has added a new port to its list of ports of call.
In a role-play scenario, perform a physical search on a crewmember and locate a hidden weapon within one minute:
Which of these actions should crew take if a suspicious object that may be a bomb is located during a search?
Throw the object overboard.
Cover the suspicious object with a box or blanket.
Confirm with their search partner that the object found is suspicious.
Place the object in a desk drawer or file cabinet.
Part way through a profiling interview with a supplier, the package the individual is carrying arouses your suspicion. What do you do?
Confront the individual and demand that he opens the package.
Call for help on the radio.
Discreetly inform someone of your suspicions so he or she can get assistance.
Take the package and open it.
Which of these are indications that a parcel is suspicious?
The parcel smells like chocolate.
The parcel is addressed to no one in particular, arrives unexpectedly and seems heavy for its size.
The parcel came from Joe in the safety department and arrived quicker than expected.
The parcel is wrapped in clean, brown paper and is addressed to a crewmember from his wife.
Successful training programs build on learners past experience, are delivered with enthusiasm, present relevant information in a logical sequence and invite participation through varied activities:
When handling drugs:
Wear skin protection and a facemask.
Briefly inhale powders, fumes or vapours to verify the substance is a drug.
Shut-off the ventilation in the room where the drugs are being stored to ensure any vapours or fumes do not spread to other parts of the ship.
Test out the potency of the drug.
Which of these statements about drug smugglers modes of operating is true?
Individual entrepreneurs usually smuggle large quantities of drugs.
Drugs smuggled by an organized conspiracy are usually concealed in a primary ship system such as the engine room or in a tank, void or compartment.
Drugs hidden by individual entrepreneurs are usually difficult to detect.
An organized conspiracy usually smuggles a small amount of drugs.
Planned maintenance schedule:
Which of these measures should the SSO implement to tighten control over access to the ship?
Segregate embarking crew and visitors from disembarking crew and visitors.
Reduce the number of access points to the ship and adequately secure those to be closed.
Limit access to the ship to personnel responding to the security threat.
Which type of equipment can be used to detect explosives?
Select from the options given the one piece of information which is considered the most sensitive from a ship’s security aspect:
Planned maintenance schedule.
Voyage itinerary with details of departure and arrival times.
This device can detect a package of drugs inside a large delivery of ship’s stores. What is it?
Your ship security plan must include procedures for responding to security threats, auditing security activities and interfacing with the port facility:
Which information should be included in your search plan?
Personnel to be involved in the search.
Known hiding spots to be searched.
Areas to the searched and personnel to be involved in the search.
A Ship Security Assessment is integral to the creation of your ship’s security plan:
Brainstorming potential motives for security incidents against your ship helps you to create possible threat scenarios:
HR policies:
That’s right! These policies contain information that is of little use to the terrorists in planning and executing their attack.
Which of these procedures should crew follow when conducting a search:
Stand quietly in various spots around the space, listening for unusual sounds like the tick-tock of a clock mechanism.
Search the perimeter of the space up to a height of 5 feet.
Wait in the area they’ve finished searching until they’re contacted for a status update.
Conduct random or spot checks of logical threat areas.
If drugs or suspected drugs are found on board your ship, follow the five C’s: Confirm, Clear, Cordon, Control and:
One of the categories of information that must be included in your SSP is:
Weaknesses in security measures.
Select all of the measures you would implement:
The person who takes a bomb threat call has an opportunity to extract information about the bomb from the caller:
The process of learning involves doing, reflecting, linking and:
Which of these tasks is performed as part of the SSA?
Assign security duties to ship personnel.
Implement measures to address weaknesses in ship security.
Train shipboard personnel in their security duties.
Assess the likelihood and potential consequences of security incidents.
Eavesdropping and phone taps are examples of which threat to information security?
Understand the steps to completing a Ship Security Assessment:
What level of security does the Ship Security Officer implement?
A contractor is hired to install new navigation equipment on board your ship while it’s berthed. For a period of time he’s left unsupervised and photographs schematics of the ship that he finds rolled up and stored in the corner of a nearby office. Later, from home, he hacks into the network and prints off information about the ship’s security procedures. Which of these information security measures would have prevented his unauthorized access?
Protective markings, reference checks, and passwords.
Firewall, protective markings, vetting and a secure network.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and a secure network.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and protective markings.
Assign men to search men and women to search women unless a device such as a metal detector is used:
What measures should be taken when handling mail?
Wear rubber gloves and protective clothing when opening suspicious looking mail.
X-Ray or scan parcels before opening them.
Open any mail that looks suspicious.
Tear open letters with your hands.
The first step in completing an SSA is to:
Create a list of potential motives for security incidents against your ship.
Identify the key shipboard operations, systems, areas and personnel that are critical to protect.
List the existing security measures.
Develop an on board security survey checklist.