Phil Campion - Big Phil Campions Real World SAS Survival Guide: Any Threat. Any Situation. Sorted.

Thanks to Richard Milner, David North, Josh Ireland and all their colleagues at Quercus for buying into another of my ideas. To Annabel Merullo, my literary agent for being there again, to Digby Halsby, the publicist at Flint PR and to Damien Lewis, author who wrote the original book proposal.

Special Thanks to Julie Davies for putting up with my lunacy and helping to make the project work. To Jack P for finding me a job which afforded me the time to do this, and Terrence the Turtle Royal Marine for washing up when I said I was busy writing (he loved it). To The Barrel (Jerusalems finest bar) for putting up with my drunken antics whilst letting off steam, and to everyone I ever served with or worked alongside on the circuit you have all contributed.

A big thank you to the NSPCC for their invaluable advice on how to protect our children in todays online world. To Nick, a very good friend and pilot for checking our section on airplane emergencies. The drinks are on me the next time I see you at The Royal Oak, Blean Common.

Finally, to everyone who has bought my books so far and helped keep me interested in pursuing my writing thank you.

The statistics included in this book have been sourced from official research, studies and government based data publically available. The original sources are listed below.

• Office for National Statistics, Crime Statistics: Nature of Crime tables 2012/13, burglary.
• Office for National Statistics, Crime Survey for England and Wales: Items stolen in incidents of burglary with entry, 2011/12.
• Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System, Fraudscape, 5 March 2013.
• FEMA Ready Campaign, Home Fires, December 2011.

• Office for National Statistics, Crime Statistics, Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12.
• Office for National Statistics, Crime in England and Wales 2009/10, mugging.
• NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, April 2012.
• Office for National Statistics, Crime Survey for England and Wales, property crime, 2011/12.
• Office for National Statistics, Crime in England and Wales, year ending March 2013, offences involving knives and sharp instruments.

• BC Welsh, DP Farrington. Effects of Improved Street Lighting on Crime: a systematic review. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, August 2002.

• Office for National Statistics, Internet Access Households and Individuals, 2012.
• OFCOM, A Nation Addicted to Smartphones. http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2011/08/a-nation-addicted-to-smartphones/
• The Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, August 5, 2013, 72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Users.
• Facebook, 699 million daily active users on average in June 2013. http://newsroom.fb.com/Key-Facts
• MT Whitty, T Buchanan(2012). The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime. CyberPsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking, 15 (3), 181183.
• OFCOM Consumer research, October 2012.
• National Fraud Authority, Annual Fraud Indicator, March 2012.
• iSAFE survey, 2004.

• Munich Reinsurance Company, Natural catastrophes worldwide, 2012.
• General Assembly Economic and Social Council report, June 2012May 2013.
• Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Annual Disaster Statistical Review, 2012.
• EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database www.emdat.be Universit Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

• World Health Organization, Road Traffic Accidents, Fact sheet Number 358, March 2013.
• Department for Transport, Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: 2011, Contributory factors to reported road accidents. Table RAS50001.
• MJ Kallan, Dr Durbin, KB Arbogast, Seating patterns and corresponding risk of injury among 03-year-old children in child safety seats, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Pediatrics, May 2008.
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), 2012 Safety Report, Worldwide traffic volume: 20052011 scheduled commercial flights.
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), 2013 Safety Report, Accident Records: 20062012 scheduled commercial flights.
• Galea, Prof Ed. An analysis of the seating charts of more than 100 plane crashes. University of Greenwich, November 2011.

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British behaviour abroad report, 2013.
• World Health Organization, Road Traffic Accidents, Fact sheet Number 358, March 2013.

• Pape, R.A. (2003), The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, American Political Science Review 97, 343361.

• British Red Cross, First Aid for All, 2013.
• European Transport Safety Council. Reducing the severity of road injuries through post impact care. Brussels 1999.

YOURE FAST ASLEEP and enjoying the best dream in ages when suddenly you find yourself awakened with a jolt. Its the dead of night, but youre sure you just heard a noise. Your wife/husband is next to you and as per normal she/hes snoring. Youre about to reach over and shake them when you hear the noise again and this time you recognize the creak of the stairs. You glance at the crack beneath the door you cant see any shadows lurking outside, but the creaking is getting louder and nearer to your bedroom door. Youve got an intruder possibly a burglar in your home. Do you reach for your mobile phone and call 999? Go out and tackle them man to man or confront them with a weapon of sorts? Youd like to think youll be as cool as a penguins pecker, but youre actually shaking like a dog taking a dump. Now, what do you do?

BIG PHILS ADVICE: Never put yourself in harms way. Create a barrier between you and the intruder: lock your bedroom door or place a chair under the handle before raising the alarm. Alternatively, feign sleep. Only if the intruder is about to make physical contact should you go on the attack.

Every 40 seconds someones home is burgled in Britain. Its one of those crimes that can leave you feeling angry, violated and frightened. Every one of us has the right to feel safe in our homes, protected from the world of intruders and thieves, but its down to us to ensure that our properties are up to the job of keeping undesirables out and our loved ones safe indoors.

Technology has brought us a huge array of security gadgets designed to deter even the most determined of burglars, but the real key to managing and averting this sort of crisis is to utilize common sense precautions.