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THEME PARKS, SPORTS COMPLEXES AND LARGE CAPACITY PUBLIC VENUES |
TPS offers sophisticated, multi-dimensional solutions designed to enhance, complement and integrate into existing security management implementations on the largest physical scale: high capacity public venues which include amusement parks, athletic stadiums, concert theaters and numerous other types. By their very nature, these vast public venues are vulnerable to three major categories of human-originated threats: mass chaos, terrorism, and criminal public endangerment. |
TPS will consult and coordinate with top level security managers, architects and planners to review and evaluate existing programs, making independent recommendations as necessary: |
Many venues, particularly sports complexes, operate highly efficient and well-resourced security management programs end-to-end, from access control to armed teams to on-site emergency response. Often these programs and integrated with local law enforcement and may involve the presence of police officers as elements of security staff. An added dimension of complexity is introduced when visiting dignitaries and VIPs are accompanied by their own security contingents, who must coordinate and work synergistically with the venue security staff. |
TPS consultants and trainers can add value to even the most elaborate and tightly run security operations, including those special situations involving external security personnel and multiple teams. TPS will also assess, evaluate, and improve security management operations which are not so well-resourced or are lacking the appropriate sophistication of design to effectively manage all major threats, on the largest possible scale. |
MASS CHAOS |
Whether due to fire, melee, or another source of panic, the threat of stampede and all-out chaos among thousands, or even tens of thousands of people is the number one disaster scenario for any public venue. The most skilled and well-trained security staff, even when assisted by significant numbers of law enforcement, is powerless in this disaster scenariotherefore TPS approaches chaos prevention and crowd control with a proactive and rapid de-escalation methodology. There is always a triggering event or point for mass chaos. TPS will train all venue security personnelmanagers, planners, team leaders and individual officersto develop enhanced levels of awareness for intelligently and swiftly identifying potential triggers. In parallel with this intensive awareness training, TPS will prepare all security personnel for the actual outbreak of crowd disorder and teach both macro-strategies and
tactical hands-on techniques for managing, controlling and defusing crowd disorder before it escalates into mass chaos. TPS takes an extremely comprehensive approach to crowd containment and chaos prevention, based upon critical principles from behavioral science, crisis management, law enforcement riot control, emergency management and response, and multidisciplinary leadership studies. |
TERRORISM |
Tragically, in this era of international terrorism, the purpose and profile of public venues make them paramount targets for attacks of mass destruction and/or mass hostage scenarios. The answer to preventing terrorism against these venues is not just tight access control or rigid screening of visitors, nor is it just the presence of more personnel. The answer is a comprehensive approach of counterterrorism strategy, planning and tactics. Just as TPS teaches awareness of the triggers of mass chaos, TPS also teaches specialized awareness oriented toward proactive detection of terror-suspect activity. Any attack of mass destruction, and any attempt to take large portions of the crowd as hostages, would inherently involve a large degree of real-time coordination and activity by terrorists. TPS counterterrorism awareness training focuses precisely on this aspect of terror attacks. Furthermore, this awareness training is
designed to complement and integrate with other training or information that security personnel may receive from various sourcesfor instance, law enforcement briefings on specific terror suspects known to be targeting a stadium during an international athletic competition. |
CRIMINAL PUBLIC ENDANGERMENT |
Although the mayhem and casualties caused by criminal violence in a public venue may appear similar to a terrorist attack, it is highly important to draw distinctions between the two. There are significant and specific contrasts in terrorist versus criminal modus operandi and behavioral patterns. Based upon these distinctions, TPS focuses a third set of specialized awareness training on the proactive detection of criminal activity which is expressly intended to harm others in the crowdvia shooting, explosion, melee, or instigation of violence. A subset of this awareness training further focuses on other criminal activity, not explicitly violent in nature, which may potentially pose a threat to the crowd if left uncheckedincluding drug and gang activity.
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