Special Events – Security Plan and Strategy
                     Special Events – Security Plan and Strategy
Jenny Knight
Writes for 
Small and Medium Business Corner & 
SMB Corner
Are you planning for any special event and need security for the event? Then, 
you should have an approach and strategy that will help you in taking effective 
security measures against realistic assessments. Approach and strategy varies 
for various types of events.
Especially the events where VIP’s attend needs more security measures and a 
strategic plan than normal events. So, in this article we have given some basic 
information and plan along with selecting a security vendor. With this 
information you can get a good plan for your special event. So, read this article 
and make your own plan based on the points discussed below.
Threat assessment
Threat assessment involves the identification of potential risk to your event. This 
can be accessed easily with a proper plan. At first start by analyzing the enemies 
and list out who are attending to the event and based on them you can easily 
find out who can attack on you. The attackers may view the event from various 
perspectives depending on their objectives. So, assessing each and every thing 
may not be possible by the normal ones. So, if you can’t access take the help of 
security officers who is able to look at various angles of your event and
provide a good plan for your event. Ones the threat assessment is done, start 
with the basic plan.
Basic security plan
Basic plan includes all the aspects of the event starting from the entry to 
planning emergency actions.
Entry criteria and access control: Start with entry criteria, when allowing the 
entry to the event guests, you should put restrictions, for example, allow only the 
people who have the invitation. Don’t allow openness to all the public of the 
event, this may increase the threat. If you have a security police for your event 
they would take care of this issue.
Protection of critical areas: Security will not be enough only in the entry 
premises, it should be extended to most critical areas of your event. This may 
include, parking areas, VIP areas, media areas, exhibit areas, etc. These places 
require close attention.
Evaluation: Evaluation and the protection of critical areas are better done with a 
specific security planner. Because, this evaluation involves accessing bomb 
threats, chemical or biological attack, specific attack on the guest, etc.
Emergency action plan: If any trouble occurs you should be ready to take the 
emergency action plan and for this take help of security police. So, both of you 
can work together to handle the emergency.
Selecting the security vendor
The security vendor that you select for the event should be experienced, should 
have good reputation and have diversity of capabilities in handling the events. 
Along with this they must be capable of explaining each and everything to you 
regarding the event and also should be capable of giving you training for the 
particular event that you have selected the security vendor.
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