Deradicalisation And Countering Violent Extremism Initiatives

The IACSP SEA Region, initiated the trainings for foreign prison officers in home-base territory in addressing radical and violent extremist within their prisons. The program was originally developed by Senior Assistant Director Adina Rai for the Prisons Department in Malaysia spanning thirty years of his expertise in addressing and dealing with terrorist operatives in the Malaysian Prisons which included Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda inmates. Adina, now the Head of the Derad and Rehab Program at the IACSP CSS SEA Region developed and have over the years updated the training program accordingly to the current evolving trends in religious terrorism. His experience dealing with violence riot in Malaysia in 2004 within the main prison for religious terrorist inmates gives him the authority as subject matter expert on training prisons wardens to overcome such threats in their own prisons.