The Correlation Between The PIRA And The EOD Team
With the introduction of the VBIED a ‘Cat & Mouse’ game began between the PIRA and the EOD teams. With the implementations of new British Army TTPs and equipment to counter the VBIED, the PIRA change to more sophisticated techniques and tactics.
A number of these tactics were shorter time delay on the VBIED, disguising the device as a harmless object, placing a number of booby traps on one device or Victim Operated IEDs (VOIED),pressure mat, anti-handing, anti-lift, anti-trembling devices, the problem with some of these devices that they were difficult to manufacture and sensitive. During the manufacture and deployment of these devices a number of PIRA personnel had being killed “Between 1969 and February 1996, the IRA lost approximately 120 of its own due to premature explosions. Thousands more, over whelmingly innocent civilians, were also killed along the way. A minority of the ‘own goal’ casualties were key players”. Geraghty, T. (1998, 204)
Other developments by the PIRA were to counter the use of the disruptor by the EOD teams by wrapping several layers of polythene around the device to stop the disruption. The PIRA would change their TTPs regularly to counter the EOD …show more content…
PIRA had disturbed a document which was seized by the security service in 1995 titled ‘How not to Incriminate Yourself’ to personnel covering fifteen areas before conducting an operation. This document was to assist the bomb makers of the devices to clean up and not to leave any trace evidence , such as fibers, hair, prints, DNA. This forensic evidence could be exploited by the security services at the scene or the device which could be used against them in court. “As a sub-discipline, the IRA created bombs specifically tailored to ambush soldiers and police officers, lured by bogus calls for emergency help or by a separate, ‘come-on’ bomb”. Geraghty, T. (1998,
A number of these tactics were shorter time delay on the VBIED, disguising the device as a harmless object, placing a number of booby traps on one device or Victim Operated IEDs (VOIED),pressure mat, anti-handing, anti-lift, anti-trembling devices, the problem with some of these devices that they were difficult to manufacture and sensitive. During the manufacture and deployment of these devices a number of PIRA personnel had being killed “Between 1969 and February 1996, the IRA lost approximately 120 of its own due to premature explosions. Thousands more, over whelmingly innocent civilians, were also killed along the way. A minority of the ‘own goal’ casualties were key players”. Geraghty, T. (1998, 204)
Other developments by the PIRA were to counter the use of the disruptor by the EOD teams by wrapping several layers of polythene around the device to stop the disruption. The PIRA would change their TTPs regularly to counter the EOD …show more content…
PIRA had disturbed a document which was seized by the security service in 1995 titled ‘How not to Incriminate Yourself’ to personnel covering fifteen areas before conducting an operation. This document was to assist the bomb makers of the devices to clean up and not to leave any trace evidence , such as fibers, hair, prints, DNA. This forensic evidence could be exploited by the security services at the scene or the device which could be used against them in court. “As a sub-discipline, the IRA created bombs specifically tailored to ambush soldiers and police officers, lured by bogus calls for emergency help or by a separate, ‘come-on’ bomb”. Geraghty, T. (1998,