UK can deliver on Paris 2024

by Mark Rowe

UK security companies can bring experience and capability to the 2024 Paris Olympics, after the delivery of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Hugo Rosemont, director of the UK defence and security trade body ADS, has told the Milipol Paris exhibition.

Staging London 2012 involved the largest peacetime security operation in Britain since 1945, giving the UK companies involved in delivering the Games invaluable experience in tackling the challenges presented by an event of unique scale and complexity, he told the event.

Hugo Rosemont said: “The UK is home to a world-leading security and resilience sector, and the London Olympics has given us a legacy of expertise in delivering major public events and overcoming the security challenges they present. There is already a long history of Anglo-French security cooperation, with recent examples including the Lancaster House Treaty signed nine years’ ago and Eurotunnel’s joint border controls.

“We are ready to support Paris 2024, bringing strengths in venue security, command and control, as well as our fast-growing and internationally successful capabilities in data and cyber security.”

The 21st Milipol Paris is running for four days this week at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, with 1,100 exhibitors and more than 30,000 visitors. ADS is hosting the UK Pavilion, with 14 companies from its security and resilience sector exhibiting.

Companies exhibiting in the Pavilion cover X-ray imaging, bomb disposal and counter-measures, forensic science, cyber security, CBRN and drone counter-measures: AB Precision, Allen-Vanguard, Avon Protection, Foster+Freeman Ltd, Huntsman Security, ip.access, Jenoptik Light & Safety, Kinesense Ltd, Ropes, OpenWorks Engineering, PW Defence Ltd, Scanna MSC Ltd, TCH (UK) Limited, and 3DX-Ray.

ADS members who were involved in delivering event security for London 2012, and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, include:

Airbus, whose Maintenance Mission Control Center in Oxford supported an estimated 7000 flight hours of police and security air units during the Games. Smiths Detection supplied detection systems for a temporary terminal in Heathrow for athletes and Games officials. ECS Special Projects Ltd’s VAL non-lethal Vessel Arrest System was used by the Marine Security Services in Weymouth for 2012 Games harbour security. Leonardo acted as protective perimeter security provider at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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