The organisers of the London exhibition the UK Security Expo have launched the Live Operations Centre. It’s a new feature at the event on November 29 and 30, 2017 at Olympia.
Some 150 people attended a second annual networking reception, aboard HMS Belfast in London on Thursday, April 27. Lord West, Chairman of UK Security Expo, introduced Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner of the Met Police who delivered a keynote speech, followed by Peter Jones, Chief Executive of UK Security Expo, who announced the new feature.
The Live Operations Centre will recreate the environment used by security, intelligence agencies and police. The aim is to illustrate how agencies – military, civil and police with government and media – work together to carry out operations and keep major public events safe and secure.
The Live Operations Centre will enable attendees to see technologies in action and take part in scenario based training exercises to show how data, intelligence, physical and personnel capabilities combine to tackle threats. Attendees will be able to take a seat and watch an operation get under way, understand the role of the various technologies and the process of planning or responding to an incident. They will be able to see the role of all parties and watch how the information is fed through and how the decision-making process works.
Peter Jones, Chief Executive of UK Security Expo said: “There has been a long-standing desire from Government and industry for a global security event that showcases how the hundreds of individual security technologies feed into solutions that keep our people, borders and infrastructure safe and secure. And here it is. The Live Operations Centre will use intelligence drawn from a mass of various technologies including check point, biometrics, surveillance, CCTV, Access Control and Perimeters and feed it back to an Operations Centre where multi-agency partners manage this information to carry out operations and respond to major incidents.”
Lord West added: “UK Security Expo is entirely unique in reflecting the outstanding work of our security and intelligence agencies whilst illustrating the crucial role of so many innovative technologies. I’m thrilled that after such a long time we finally see all of the threads come together with the launch of the Live Operations Centre feature.”
Registration will be live in June; you can register your interest at www.uksecurityexpo.com.
