“The worst unrest the UK has seen in decades”(1)
With the rise in protestor activity and unrest across the UK, many venues and events places where people gather have been warned to be prepared for protests, counter-protests, and the potential for escalated violence and rioting. The Human Rights Act ensures everyone has qualified freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble and associate, leading to the need for a delicate balance between protecting those rights and keeping people and premises safe.
As the police and government respond to protest and rioting activity across the UK, and international conflict, elections and climate activism continues to impact critical response across the globe, many venues and events are preparing their security operations to manage a potential increase in incidents and emergency action. And The Halo Solution is here to help.
Halo & Protests
The Halo Solution is a cloud-based, integrated technology solution that brings multiple incident management and safety operations tools together into one unified platform.
By connecting the right information to the right people in the right place at the right time, the Halo solution helps you to deliver best practice in your Incident Management and Safety Operations capability so you can protect everyone and save lives.
Football: 711 years of recorded disorder
The football world has a long history of facing protests and crowd management incidents. From from recent Old Trafford protests to the clashes at Villa Park last year, as far back as the Lima Football riots in 1964.
The Halo Solution has assisted at over 500 football matches across the UK, protecting over 10 million fans. By connecting all of the clubs we work with, we’re working to increase the penalty for hate crime and violent offences by implementing a ‘banned from one – banned from all’ initiative.
We’re also helping security staff to respond to critical incidents quickly and appropriately by getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
“We’ve seen fantastic results implementing the Halo System into everyday security operations across Stamford Bridge and Cobham Training Ground” – Bakary Bah, Senior Security Manager, OCS Group. Providing security services to Chelsea Football Club.(2)
Student Protests: Balancing student experience and campus security
University campuses are a prime place for protest activity, and with such a vibrant mixture of voices and perspectives, it can be difficult for universities to manage student protests and potential escalations.
With the Halo Solution, our university customers can connect their entire campus, from student experience teams to security, from the car park to the campus centre, taking a joined-up approach to campus security that both prevents and manages critical incidents as a result of student protest activities (and much, much more…).
Find out more about the changing security landscape within universities by downloading our eBook ‘5 Reasons to re-think your campus security operations’
Keeping peaceful protests peaceful.
Protests don’t always escalate to violence and often event and venue security teams’ response can be key to a successful peaceful protest.
By identifying protest groups and individuals, and logging information about their protest history, political stances and willingness to engage, event organisers and security teams can make data-backed decisions in regards to about to expect from a protest group and how to prepare for any demonstrations to cause minimal disruptions.
The Halo Solution, with its advanced insight and analysis features, bulletin boards and digital control logs, is helping events and venues to counter protestor threats and build intelligence to make the best decisions and manage protester activity as effectively as possible.
“We have seen increasing protest activity over recent months across our venues. Recording the incidents on the Halo System has enabled us to accurately track protestor activity, whilst having intelligence on methods of protests, regular protestors and the impact to site operations. Having this evidential information has enabled the security teams to best prepare and facilitate peaceful protest – by early intervention, targeted interventions and working appropriately with protestors to limit the impact to our site and clients.” – Zak Khachik, Head of security at the NEC Group(3)
Find out more about the Halo Solution and how its powerful features can help your team keep everyone safe.
Halo Solutions. Let’s Protect Everyone.