The differing views of Crowd Control!

Kia Ora,

Crowd Control is topical at present with the upset by NZ soccer (football) fans on how the South African security moved them on.

Again it comes back to the mindset of New Zealanders who think that we don't need too much security.

They forget that from overseas experience, crowd control is not just there for security, but Health & Safety as well.

They also don't realize that it is in their best interests if it is carried out in a certain way.



The clip here shows a demonstration outside a foregin embassy in Iraq & although the camera work is not great due to covert nature, it does show that how well crowd control can be achieved even by a force that doesn't appear well trained.

Having the security armed does help as less arguments, but it doesn't stop them using other skills to keep the crowds in check.

At one point the crowd started to get quite agitated once all groups marching were on site, so to keep them happy three of those in camouflage scaled the embassy & ripped down the foreign flag.

It worked because shortly after the crowd dispersed.



More often than most New Zealanders realize the requirements for a riot are in place. In fact I would say on several occassions each weekend in Christchurch alone.

But yet again the NZ mindset says common sense should prevail & we do not need too much security & no one should be allowed to interfere with our 'rights'.

More often than not the rights they talk about are the breaking of the law.

They can also not expect the low standards of crowd control to be practised when they attend overseas sporting events. It is NZ that has to come up to standard not the world come down to New Zealands level.

http://www.foxhoundsecurity.co.nz