Attack Defence Alert System

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The scale represented graphically

The Attack Defence Alert System (French: État-alerte Défense anti-attaque), more commonly known by its abbreviation, EAD, is a scale utilised by Ainin's Ministry of the Interior to warn of attacks, terrorism and other threats to the civilian population. The alert level is changed by the Minister of the Interior with the advice of the National Police, Gendarmerie and Intelligence and Security Directorate. It was created in 1999 in response to the 1998 Hartly shootings to streamline law enforcement readiness in regards to crises.

The alert level does not necessarily have to be raised nationwide, and can be applied to any province or prefecture (including prefecture-level cities and province-level prefectures).

As of April 2015, the EAD state is "imminent attack" across Ainin due to the 2015 Hartly bombings.

Alert levels

Alert level	Name	Definition	Readiness state
File:EAD1.png	Imminent attack Attaque imminente	The risk of an attack is clear, definite and imminent	Law enforcement in the concerned localities go to maximum readiness Soldiers and Republican Guardsmen are made available to regional law enforcement to aid in maintaining public order Targets of strategic importance are put under military guard Transport hubs are subject to heavy security checks and patrols
File:EAD2.png	Alert Alerte	The risk of an attack is high but not yet clear, definite or imminent	Law enforcement in the concerned localities increase the frequency of patrols and make emergency response forces ready to respond to threats that develop Targets of strategic importance are put under increased guard
File:EAD3.png	Caution Mise en garde	There is an elevated risk of an attack occurring	Intelligence assets in the concerned area are increased to deal with the potential threat Local law enforcement and governments are warned of a potential danger
File:EAD4.png	Exert prudence Prudence	There is no major threat at the current time, but prudence should still be exerted while in public places

History

Date	Level	Justification	Locale
9 October 1999	Caution	EAD introduced	Nationwide
28 November 1999	Exert prudence	Lack of terrorist threats against the territory	Concordia, except AFB Concordia and AFB North Lake
22 December 1999	Alert	Security concerns about the Christmas holiday and New Year's celebrations	Nationwide except Concordia
31 December 1999	Imminent attack	Y2K bug	Nationwide except Concordia
3 January 2000	Exert prudence	Passing of Y2K problem deadline and New Year's Day	Nationwide
12 November 2000	Caution	Unspecified threats against persons and property	Nationwide
17 November 2000	Alert	Unspecified threats against persons and property	Nationwide
18 November 2000	Imminent attack	Discovery of a plot to blow up six airliners on the ground at Forestia-Gerry J. Halsy International Airport on Christmas Day	Forestia
23 November 2000	Caution	Return to lower level after plot to bomb airliners foiled and all suspects apprehended	Nationwide
21 December 2000	Alert	Security concerns about the Christmas holiday and New Year's celebrations	Nationwide except Concordia
10 January 2001	Caution	Return to lower level after end of festivities	Nationwide
5 October 2001	Alert	Escalation of Nautaryan Civil War and threat of spillover into Concordia and Desert Bay	Concordia and Desert Bay
17 January 2002	Exert prudence	Passing of New Year's Day	Nationwide except Concordia and Desert Bay
9 June 2002	Imminent attack	Imminent risk of spillover of fighting from Nautarya	Desert Bay
25 November 2002	Imminent attack	Imminent risk of spillover of fighting from Nautarya	Concordia
25 November 2002	Imminent attack	Spate of bombings against public transit in Forestia, Jasper Hill, Bunidaburg and Hartly	Nationwide
4 January 2003	Alert	Passing of imminent threat due to death or arrest of all nine bombers after shootout with police	Nationwide except Concordia and Desert Bay
20 June 2003	Caution	Return to lower level after passing of threat	Nationwide except Concordia and Desert Bay
23 July 2003	Alert	End of fighting near Concordia and Desert Bay borders	Concordia and Desert Bay
8 August 2003	Alert	Threat to government property in Hilton, West Ainin	West Ainin
9 September 2003	Exert prudence	Lack of major threats against persons and property	Nationwide
19 December 2003	Caution	New Year's Holiday	Nationwide
6 January 2004	Exert prudence	End of holiday season	Nationwide
9 April 2004	Caution	Increased extremist chatter on communications networks	Nationwide
18 May 2004	Imminent attack	Border sentry post comes under small arms fire on Desert Bay-Nautarya border	Desert Bay