Venue Security Management

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Business & Facility Management

• Public assembly facility management and operations.
• Basic business principles as needed to complete strategic planning. 
• Determine ROI, institute cost controls.
• Perform budgeting activities, draft, and execute contracts.
• Management and supervisory techniques and practices of training, policy implementation to include identifying training needs, meeting staffing needs, conducting training, training techniques, etc.
• Employee training techniques as needed to ensure all employees are adequately prepared to perform assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services to include customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Emergency Planning

• Security planning, policies, and protective measures for sports and special events safety and security.
• Logistical issues and challenges associated with sports and special events.
• Risk management procedures to enhance spectator experience and lessening the likelihood of risk.
• Business continuity planning as needed to allow the venue or team to deliver goods or services even under adverse conditions.
• Threat and risk assessment processes for sports and event venues.
• Incident management systems such as the National Incident Management 
• System (NIMS), Incident Command System (ICS).

Emergency Management

• Standard incident management strategies as needed for prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from all-hazard emergency incidents
• Loss prevention and recovery practices to include deaths, economic loss, loss of operations, loss of public confident, loss of assets and downtime.
• Emergency response and recovery principles as needed to protect spectators, limit damage, and restore services in the event of emergencies.
• Techniques to prevent and respond to extraordinary crimes, violence, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters as well as ordinary incidents such as fights, or drunkenness. 
• Procedures for responding to disasters and other emergency events.
• Procedures for protecting an incident scene and ensuring scene safety such as re-routing traffic, notifying other services (fire department, EMS, etc.), crowd control, and protecting evidence at the scene.
• Hazardous materials, biohazard materials, weapons, explosives, and weapons of mass destruction as needed to detect, respond to, and manage incidents involving such elements.
• Procedures for protecting crime scenes and conducting the initial crime scene investigation to include evidence preservation.

Legal & Regulatory

• Statutes concerning personnel management.
• General laws relating to venue operations such as ADA (use of elevators, service animals, dietary requirements, etc.).
• Constitutional rights of individuals to ensure rights are not violated while also maintaining safety and security.
• Legal implications of various sports and special events safety and security issues.
• Criminal justice and the administration of justice as needed to properly handle incidents involving alleged criminal activity.
• Laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• Applicable safety codes, statutes, and regulation such as NFPA, OSHA, etc.
• Laws and policies regarding use of physical force to include the use of deadly force, the minimum physical force required to subdue a person, how force is to be used, guidelines for the progression in the use of force, and documentation following the use of force.
• Laws and court rulings governing search and seizure with and without a warrant to include field and protective searches and the difference between full body, span of control, stop-and-frisk (pat down), etc.

Crowd Management

• Access control procedures as needed to provide orderly movement of spectators to appropriate areas, control who can enter restricted areas, screen for items not allowed into venues, and monitor spectators in and around venues.
• Physical bag search procedures as needed to ensure dangerous or prohibited items are not allowed in sports venues.
• Pat-down procedures to resolve any alarms of a metal detector or anomalies identified by imaging technology.
• Alcohol management practices to ensure responsible and safe drinking by spectators.
• Force continuum to include understanding an escalating series of actions security personnel may take to resolve a situation and the level of force appropriate to the situation at hand.
• Use of force techniques and equipment such as restraining devices, self-defense, and handcuffing techniques as needed to restrain and apprehend subjects in a manner that is effective and safe to the subject and officer.
• Parking management procedures to ensure safe and orderly parking of spectators. 
• Crowd management techniques to reduce likelihood of violence, panic, overcrowding, riots, etc.

Security Principles & Practices

• Security principles for sports and special events to ensure the safety and security of players, coaches, staff, guests, and other related individuals.
• Acceptable credentialing principles to restrict access to various locations within the venue.
• Relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Vehicle search/inspection procedures to ensure vehicles are safe prior to entering perimeter.
• Transportation/traffic issues that could have an impact on venue security to include vehicle access, motorcades, exit flow, aircraft/helicopter access, airspace protection, etc.
• Traffic management procedures to ensure safe and efficient traffic flow before and after sporting event such as management of ingress and egress.
• Traffic control procedures to include the position of the vehicle; use of lights, flares, protective clothing, and hand signals; and ensure safe traffic flow.

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