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Embracing Digital Security to Protecting People

in Crowded Places

Improve Security & Efficiency Conference

On the 21st April 2022, we held the ‘Protecting People in Crowded Places
Conference’.

So far in 2022, we have held numerous events both We were honored to hold the conference within the Arnold Hills Room at
the London Stadium, which was a fantastic venue overlooking the football
in London, and regionally across the United Kingdom. pitch of the stadium built to host London 2012, the former Olympic
One of our first events of the year was our regional Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Now home to Premier League
“Embracing Digital Security to Improve Security & football club West Ham United and UK Athletics.
Efficiency” event held in Bristol on 23rd March 2022.
The event, which was a collaboration between the Security Institute and
We were joined by expert speakers including Norman The UK Crowd Management Association kicked off with a welcome from
De Andrade, Stephen Lampett, Andrew Palmer and both Peter Swordy MSyI and Carl Dakin CSyP FSyI before going into the
Frank Cannon CSyP FSyI. formal proceedings, commencing with a panel session by the Co-Chairs of

The presentations commenced with Norman De the Protecting People in Crowded Places Special Interest Group (PPCS SIG).
The Co-Chairs consist of Gary Simpson MSyI, Simon Roberts MSyI, Anne
Andrade from Motorola Solutions who focussed on Marie Chehib and Simon Ancliffe, who as a collective, discussed their aims
answering the question “Why specify the Motorola for the SIG when it comes to sharing good practice for crowd and event
Solutions Eco-System”. The topic explored the end-to- safety and security.
end solution, discussing advanced AI & Video analytics,
superior quality and performance, and the total cost of We were then joined by Miriam Stone who discussed her topic, titled
ownership. ‘Reflections on managing a major incident’. Miriam discussed her own

Following Norman’s presentation, we were joined by personal reflection on managing the incident of the suicide bomb attack
outside the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, the coming together of the
Andrew Palmer from Baseline who gave an insight into world of security and that of crowd management, the real-life responses
what Behavioural Detection is and how the capability from the team and the successes and difficulties associated with such an
can operate at different sites and venues. He detailed experience.
the benefits to be gained from Behavioural Detection
whilst recognising the limitations. The conversation Following lunch we were then joined virtually by Prof. Dr G. Keith Still who
was a myth-busting overview of a subject many discussed the definitions of safety and security - why these are different
consider to be an essential component of any security concepts and are often confused. The focus on vocabulary for normal and
strategy. emergency situations, the issues of screening and queueing (creating soft
Following lunch, we were joined by Stephen Lampett targets) and the early warning signs of crowd related problems.
from BSIA who kicked off the afternoon with his Eric Stuart then joined us from UKCMA before Chris Kemp MSyI, Jane
presentation titled ‘Automatic Facial Recognition (AFR) Fairweather and Jason Eglash who discussed further on the topics of ‘Can
– Ethical Usage Roadmap’. Who was then followed by we be fully interoperable in an age of egos?’, ‘Securing a major Events
Frank Cannon CSyP FSyI who shared his thoughts on Venue (The Before, During, and After)’ and Safety, Security and Service – an
how technology can support security programmes event overview from arrival to departure.
and what he does when creating that, much-needed,
blend of physical, technical, and behavioural security This event was a huge success, and we would not have been able to offer
controls. He concluded with a personal reflection on this to UKCMA/ SyI members for such a low fee without our amazing
how you can sell your product to ensure it meets your sponsors.
needs.
This event was kindly sponsored by Motorola, who
had a variety of their equipment displayed during
the event’s exhibition, where the attendees had a
chance to see some of the equipment in action. One
of the aims of this conference and exhibition was to
encourage more Institute members to attend regional
events, based on continued feedback from the
membership.
More regional events are currently being planned for
the remainder of 2022.
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