Physical Security

Temporary fencing

by Mark Rowe

Temporary fencing for securing major events gets a public airing on stand J50 at Counter Terror Expo (CTX) 2013.

Zaun and Highway Care Security Solutions developed a Rapid Deployable System (RDS) temporary Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) fence in a collaboration especially for the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe meeting in Brighton in April 2012.

The Home Office added 5.5km of RDS PAS68 fencing to the National Barrier Asset, including vehicular and pedestrian access portals, turnstiles and gates, initially for use at the 2012 autumn conference season for the main political parties with the police forces of Sussex, Greater Manchester and West Midlands, covering Brighton to Birmingham via Manchester. Sussex Police declared it saved them up to 90pc of police time at the Liberal Democrat Party Annual Conference 2012.

Inspector Steve Worth, Specialist Operations Branch, Conference Planning Unit, Greater Manchester Police, said: “The product has numerous advantages over other products deployed previously: its speed of deployment, flexibility of use in differing street scenes and terrains and the ability to fully integrate gates and turnstile options are worthy of note.

“Significantly though, the reduction in the numbers of guard force required and potential for enhancements using technical solutions make RDS an attractive proposition when delivering secure events to ever decreasing funding streams.

“The RDS is now firmly the preferred product in relation to the delivery of Security Operations for Party Political Party Conferences delivered by Greater Manchester Police, fully supported by The Home Office.”

RDS in March won the Security Innovation Awards 2013 at Farnborough, featured in the May print issue of Professional Security.

RDS can be supplied with a PAS68 hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) enhancement which protects against 2.5 and 7.5 tonne vehicles to the following standards: PAS68:2010 V2500 (N1G)/48/90:4.7/0.0 and PAS68:2010 V7500 (N2)/48/90:6.0/0.0

RDS provides HVM up to 30mph (48kph) as rapidly-deployed temporary fencing with no below ground foundations – a solution generally offered only by permanent fixed installations, the makers claim.

The system has also recently been tested against crowd/mob attack; and was able to withstand prolonged attacks conducted under realistic conditions the firm says. These trials will be used to enable the creation of crowd attack standards to be used to evaluate other systems.

RDS Fence goes to heights of up to 3m. The innovative configuration of Highway Care’s galvanised steel SecureGuard blocks combined with Zaun’s fence and post systems allows installers to erect and remove the fence panels in a matter of minutes, the makers say.

Specifiers can incorporate CCTV, PIDS, vehicle gates and pedestrian portals.

RDS comes with a 12-year guarantee and carries the Secured by Design accreditation mark. After feedback from police and other users, the fencing has been designed to prevent protesters chaining themselves to the panels.

RDS is available for rental or purchase and can be incorporated into other temporary and permanent fencing solutions. These systems can be installed onto Zaun’s fencing panels, such as HiSec, HiSec Super and ArmaWeave.

PAS 68:2010 is the latest of BSi’s Publicly Available Specifications for vehicle security barriers, which is the benchmark for Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) equipment. It specifies the regime for products to be tested against.

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