Public Protection Procedures

One place for everything you prepare for Martyn's Law: a plan that ticks itself, each venue's tier and document, your procedures and roles, briefings and drills, and the guidance.

What It Is

Public Protection Procedures is where everything you prepare for the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, known as Martyn's Law, is kept together: whether the Act applies to each of your venues and at which tier, your procedures and the people who carry them out, the briefings and drills that practise them, and each venue's Martyn's Law document. It is second in the Security Ops sidebar, after the Dashboard.

Your Plan

Your plan lists the work in the order it is done, as nine stages. Each one ticks itself from what whoot. already holds, so there is nothing to mark by hand, and a stage un-ticks itself if what it watches changes. The next stage not done is marked, and its button takes you to where that work is done.

1. Does the Act apply to you? — Ticks when every question the wizard asks in this stage is answered.
2. Your premises — Ticks when every venue is described: what it is used for, when it is open, how crowds form, staffing and the immediate vicinity.
3. Your people — Ticks when every response role has someone in it and the wizard's questions about your people are answered.
4. Your procedures — Ticks when evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication are published for every venue, and each enhanced tier venue's document assesses them.
5. Security measures — Enhanced tier venues only. Ticks when each one's document has its measures and its vulnerabilities assessed, and shows as not required when no venue is enhanced tier.
6. Training and practice — Ticks when every published procedure has a briefing on its current version and there has been a drill in the last six months.
7. Working with others — Ticks when every venue's document says how you work with others, or that nobody else is involved.
8. Your document — Ticks when every venue has a saved version with its completion details, and every enhanced tier venue's latest version is recorded as given to the SIA.
9. Keeping it up to date — Ticks when every published procedure and every saved document has a review date, none is overdue, and the SIA has been told who is responsible for each venue and for your qualifying events.

Start the wizard opens the public protection wizard at the next stage not done. Above the stages, Due lists what needs doing now or in the next 30 days: a procedure review, a briefing on a version that has since been replaced, a drill, a document to give to the SIA, a document that has fallen behind, or telling the SIA you are responsible. The wizard opens by itself the first time someone who manages Security Ops arrives with nothing published.

The Public Protection Wizard

The wizard asks one question at a time, with the part of the Act it comes from beside it, quoted from legislation.gov.uk, and a line on why it matters. Every answer is saved as you give it, so two people can share the work and anyone can stop and carry on later. Each answer decides what comes next: a venue that is land with no building is asked nothing about its numbers, an office with none of the Schedule 1 uses is asked nothing more, and a school is never asked about qualifying events. Where you have written an answer for one venue, the same question at the next venue offers to start from it, so you only change what is different.

• Stage 1 — What your organisation runs; for each venue what it is used for, whether it is a building, whether Schedule 2 excludes it, how many people may be there at once, whether it is part of larger premises and who has control; whether you hold qualifying events and which planned events they are; and who the senior individual is. It ends with each venue's tier on your answers, where you can follow a different tier with a reason.
• Stage 2 — For each venue: its uses, opening times and busiest times, crowd patterns, staffing and immediate vicinity, worded for your kind of premises. The answers are About this venue's notes.
• Stage 3 — Which response pack your procedures are written from, and the questions that decide the roles: a door team, a control room, first aiders, marshals, lifts, outdoor areas, several buildings, and the one or two your sector adds.
• Stage 4 — Whether you have written procedures, who owns them, how often they are reviewed, which other scenarios to add and, with one venue, the places the cards name; then Add to workspace adds the pack as drafts. Then, for each venue, its own places when you have more than one venue, the document's own boxes for each procedure, and where each procedure stands on publication.
• Stages 5 and 7 — The document's boxes on the measures and the venue's vulnerabilities (enhanced tier only), and on working with others.
• Stage 6 — Briefings, drills and exercises, where an exercise or training session can be recorded on the spot, then the document's training box.
• Stage 8 — Who completed the document and any adviser; then save a version and, for an enhanced tier venue, record the date it was given to the SIA.
• Stage 9 — When each document is next reviewed and what triggers a review sooner, who keeps the plan current, and whether the SIA has been told who is responsible for each venue and for your qualifying events.

Where a question is a box of the venue's Martyn's Law document, the wizard shows the document's own box: the SIA's ask and prompts, what whoot. records for it, and your text. There is one answer, saved through the document, so what you write in the wizard is in the document and the editor shows it too. If someone else changed the box in the meantime, their text is shown for you to keep or replace. whoot. never writes a judgement box.

The wizard replaces the old set-up wizard. The Open the response library buttons on empty Procedures, Response roles and Scenarios open it at the response pack.

Venues

Venues has one row per venue: its tier, its numbers, the senior individual, the latest saved version of its document, when that was given to the SIA, and when it is next reviewed. Open a venue for its page: the tier and where it comes from, About this venue, the senior individual, the procedures published for it, its Martyn's Law document and its evidence pack.

The tier comes from the venue's answers in the wizard: its principal use and how many people may be there at once. Schools, further education, childcare and places of worship stay in the standard tier however many people are present. Until a venue's use is recorded, the tier comes from its numbers under About this venue or the answers given when the response pack was added. Follow a different tier on the venue's page sets your own choice, with a reason; the page then shows both the Act's reading and your choice, with who made it and when.

Drawing a venue, its report form, alrt.uk and what Declare Emergency alerts for it stay under Security Ops → Settings → Venues. A venue's panel there has Open in Public Protection Procedures.

Procedures and Response Roles

The Procedures and Response roles tabs work as they did under Scenarios: the procedures with their action cards, checklists, briefings and review record, and the roles they are written for. Procedures & Action Cards covers both. Scenarios keeps the tiles in Declare Emergency and the announcements.

Training

Training lists every drill and every briefing in the workspace, and your exercises and training: table-top and discussion exercises, and the induction and role training your people have had, which the SIA's forms ask about. Record an exercise and Record training add one; each venue's document lists them in its training section. Run a drill opens Declare Emergency with the drill switch already on, and a drill's row opens its record in History. A briefing on a version that has since been replaced is marked.

Reminders and the 30-Day Clock

Once a day, Security Operations managers are told, in their notifications, when a procedure review is a fortnight away or due, when a document's next review is near or due, when no drill has been held in six months, and when an enhanced tier venue's document needs to go to the SIA. A first version is reminded a week after it is saved if it is not recorded as given. A version that revises one already given has to reach the SIA before the end of 30 days beginning with the day of its revision, so Your plan shows the date and the reminder comes a week before. Each reminder is sent once.

Due also says when a venue's saved version has fallen behind: the working copy has changes not yet saved as a version, a procedure has been published since, or About this venue has changed.

Guidance

Guidance explains what the Act asks of premises and events, the two tiers, what whoot. does and does not do, what to have to hand, and the penalties the Act sets, with links to the Act, the statutory guidance and the SIA's forms.

Where Things Moved

• Procedures, response roles and the Martyn's Law guidance — From Scenarios to Public Protection Procedures. Links saved to the old places still open the right tab.
• The set-up wizard — Now part of the public protection wizard, in stages 3 and 4.
• About this venue, the senior individual, the evidence pack and the Martyn's Law document — From the venue's panel under Settings → Venues to Public Protection Procedures → Venues.
• Drill Readiness on the Dashboard — Now the Public Protection card: stages done, the next stage, what is due and the drill status. People who can view Security Ops but not manage it see a Drills card instead.
• Qualifying events — Marked in the wizard's first stage, and shown in the Event Schedule beside the event.