Physical Security

Fence for Trump

by Mark Rowe

US President Donald Trump slept secure behind British fencing on his State visit to the UK earlier this month. Mr Trump stayed behind an eight-foot-high fence of Zaun Limited’s Rapid Deployment System (RDS), developed with partner Highway Care Security. The fence surrounded the house and gardens of the US ambassador’s residence Winfield House in Regent’s Park in north London.

Zaun first created RDS, which forms part of the National Barrier Asset, for major temporary events such as music festivals or political conferences. The fences were erected ahead of the President’s three-day state visit to join the marking of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Parts of the park were closed.

RDS began in use on a tour from Brighton to Birmingham via Manchester for the three main UK political parties’ autumn conferences in 2012 and at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland in May 2013. After the Labour autumn conference in 2012, Inspector Steve Worth, Specialist Operations Branch, Conference Planning Unit, Greater Manchester Police, said: “RDS is now firmly the preferred product for the delivery of security operations for party political conferences we police, fully supported by The Home Office.”

Since then, RDS has won a number of security innovation awards, including the Security Innovation Award and the Counter Terror Expo Excellence Awards for Best Physical Security Innovation.

Wolverhampton-based Zaun says a new QuickFit post system halves the manpower for installing the fencing, whereby two installers are able to fit a 30m run in half an hour in trials. Opposing wedge-shape protrusions on the posts and clamp bar serve as a pincer system to clamp the fence panels to the posts. They are locked in place with a single bolt fixing per post with the head of the bolt completely encapsulated inside a tube so it cannot be removed. Zaun’s research and development team has created a video to demonstrate.

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