Three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers - a Filipino, a Swiss and an Italian national - were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Jolo, in the southern archipelago on 13 January,according to global risk consultants Stirling Assynt. The authorities are investigating whether their abduction was linked to the escape of thirteen inmates, including some ASG members, from a prison in Sulu on the same day.
Kidnap Risk Reduction and Response forms part of the postgraduate university-accredited Security Management Stage 3 Course, which takes place as follows:
Malaysia, 10-20 February
UK, 11-22 May
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