The United States is a highly charged political landscape, and experiencing an increasing partisan environment that has seen protests develop with hostility and division, according to Allied Universal Global Chairman and CEO Steve Jones.
The US-based security company – which owns G4S – recently released a report ‘Physical Security During an Election: Expect the Unexpected and Prepare for it All’. Steve Jones said: “Add in the multiple wars being waged around the globe, both federal and local law enforcement have their hands full with keeping the peace while working to protect individual free speech. Our hope with this report is to provide insights and methods to mitigate issues that may arise. It outlines critical information necessary to identify risks, prepare contingency plans and predict when and where to deploy resources during the upcoming convention as well as at events throughout the remainder of the election cycle.”
The report was released before the assassination attempt on former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump. The FBI is investigating the shooting at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which resulted in one spectator’s death and injuries to two others, besides the shooting dead of the would-be assassin. Visit fbi.gov/butler-updates.
The director of the Secret Service, Kimberley Cheatle, resigned after attending the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in Washington DC, and prompting committee chairman James Comer to comment that she ‘instilled no confidence that she has the ability to ensure the Secret Service can meet its protective mission’.
As featured in the August edition of Professional Security Magazine, at the risk forecasting consultancy Sibylline’s mid-year forecast event at its London office, Sibylline founder and chief Justin Crump, pictured, to suggest that an option in the presidential election – apart from an outright Republican or Democrat win – might be a contested result that led to ‘sustained insurgency’.
Similarly Sibylline is running an afternoon seminar, ‘Building Resilience in a Volatile World’ at its Vauxhall office on Thursday afternoon, September 26. Email [email protected].
More in the September edition of Professional Security Magazine.
