Videoconference, 18-19 June 2025 — The ECAC Behaviour Detection Study Group held its 41st meeting to review preparations for the Behaviour Detection (BD) Research and Development Workshop, scheduled for 2-3 September 2025 in Berlin.
The workshop will focus on innovations in behaviour detection training and recruitment.
The group also discussed progress on its five-year strategy and the development of two new documents:
• Insider threat and behaviour detection in aviation security, and
• The role of the interviewer in behaviour detection).
These documents, along with the revised Doc 30, Part II (Security) Chapter 15 on behaviour detection, are expected to be finalised in September 2025. The five-year strategy will reflect current needs, required adaptations and new objectives to support the evolving BD programmes of Member States.
Additionally, the moderator shared positive feedback from the May Security Forum meeting in Riga, where the group’s latest guidance paper on interviewing was described as «excellent, with a broader application as guidance for recruitment and alarm resolution interviews». Members welcomed this recognition of BD principles as being valuable across wider areas of aviation security.