The ongoing strands of work developed by the different networks, has shown concrete and encouraging results namely in facilitating police officers to better operate in the field, providing adequate technological tools to better share information, and in the training domain.  

Concrete examples are represented by the upcoming large exercises organized by the LEN’s. Starting and ending at Vienna International Airport on 13 October 2022 and hosted the Special Intervention Unit of Austria EKO Cobra, this exercise will involve a team of In-Flight Security Officers countering an in-flight attack as well as military and civilian elements and specialized ground intervention forces from ATLAS member units. The involvement of all prime stakeholders during the scenario aims to generate best practices and mitigate possible “blue-on-blue-situations” while at the same time to validate and solidify the European and international communication concepts during such an incident (NEOS communication system will be tested with advanced info exchanged between airplane crew and on the ground assets). Between the 3 and 6 October, at the ATLAS Center of Excellence for Aircraft Operations, 81 assaulters from 9 different MS’s will perform a large exercise in order to improve interoperability capacity to face hijacking and hostage rescue. Finally, AIRPOL has organized a tabletop exercise in Brussels for the 27 September, aiming towards increasing cooperation at airports among first responders and covers the first 30-45 minutes of a series of serious incidents. It is based on a training video developed by experts of several countries with the contribution of US, UK and Israel.