Client Objectives
Our client had won the right to host a major super-event, which was the largest event undertaken in that country to date. The client wanted to ensure that all stakeholders and participants would feel safe and secure, that threats would be anticipated in advance, and that the reputation of the country would be enhanced via the implementation of a comprehensive, yet practical security overlay.

The Boartes Approach
Security was one of the 51 functional areas of the organising committee for this super-event, albeit an extremely important one given recent global incidents. The Boartes approach required a concerted and consistent stakeholder management and communication effort in conjunction with the client both within the committee, and also to other key stakeholders such as police, military, coastguard and general public. Once the Security Master-plan, Security Framework and Security Roadmap had been developed and agreed on, the Boartes team focussed on five main areas: venue security overlay planning, venue security operations planning, secure communications planning and implementation, security force training, and command and control design and support.

Results
This super-event was staged with a bare minimum of disruption to games operations and stakeholder groups, notwithstanding the mass movement of athletes, officials, VIPs, workforce and spectators etc. Furthermore, the support Boartes provided to local security officers and officials ensured that operational issues were dealt with quickly and efficiently in a consultative manner via the overall games Main Operations Centre.

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