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On 9-12 January 2024, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism CT TECH initiative completed its first national workshop for Trinidad and Tobago under the theme  “developing national counter-terrorism policy and operational responses to counter the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes while protecting human rights”. The workshop marks the start of tailored national capacity building stage of the initiative. 

In this phase, five selected Partner States will strengthen their capacities to conduct national threat assessments of the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes and design policy recommendations to address these threats using good practices, processes and techniques developed under CT TECH. They will also identify opportunities, gaps, and areas for improvement of their law enforcement capabilities to adopt new technologies to counter terrorism.

During the four-day workshop, 29 Trinidad and Tobago officials from the Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of National Security, Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs, as well as representatives from other judiciary, law enforcement, intelligence and security organizations, defence and cybersecurity institutions, and academia attended the event. The participants:

• discussed roles, responsibilities, structures, and processes in place for assessing terrorist threats and designing policy responses to the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes.
• developed, assessed, and prioritized threat scenarios for the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes.
• conducted exercises to design and measure the effectiveness of counter-terrorism policy responses in mitigating threats.
• explored ways to incorporate and mainstream human rights and gender equality considerations into threat assessments and policy responses and to ensure that new technologies in counter-terrorism are used in a human rights-compliant and gender-sensitive manner.
• discussed the status of law enforcement capabilities to use new technologies for countering terrorism across policy, legal and institutional pillars to identify gaps and areas for improvement and capacity-building, including through a human rights and gender equality lens.