Security Concept EURO 2008Dr. Guenther Marek, Project Manager – EURO 2008

Project Organisation

• Project Management for the Security concept:Guenther Marek

Austrian Ministry of the Interior, Central Unit for Sports Matters

• Close cooperation with Switzerland

• Comprehensive exchange of experience duringWorld Cup 2006 in Germany

Presence of Austrian representativesLaw enforcement cooperation

Implementation Chart EURO 2008Minister

Inferences from the World Cup 2006 for the EURO2008

• Friendly and helpful police

• Similar security concepts WC 2006/EURO 2008

• Focus on international cooperation and prevention

• Deployment of foreign law officers

• Establishment of a command centre

• Re-installation of border controls, if doomed advisable

• Security standards at "Public Viewing"-events

• Priority media work

Guidelines for EURO 2008• Friendly and helpful police• Operations philosophy:

Phase 1 Dialogue Phase 2 De-escalation Phase 3 Determination

• Identical and uniform security standards in both countries• Compatible planning, managing and operational staff in

booth countries• Close international cooperation• Priority prevention• Priority media

OPERATIONS PHILOSOPHY

DIALOGUEnormal

environment• information collection and assistance

DE-ESCALATION

unrest in the streets, little

disturbance of public order

• distinct presence of operational forces

• maintaining peace through dialogue

DETERMINATION

situation escalates, riotous

assembly of violent disturber

• increasing security at the location by police presence

• restoring peace by determining identity, up to arrests

Special Units

• Crowd Control Units deployment of approx. 2000 officers

• Operational Units especially equipped, can be flexibly deployed

anywhere in Austria approx. 2000 officers show up in case of massive incidents

• 'Spotters' use of spotters has proven effective in Austria number will be increased to 150 during the EURO

2008

Cooperation with the Army

• Sectors of assistance by the Austrian Federal Army:

Providing accommodation and board for Austrian and foreign law enforcement officers

Airspace surveillance Civil Defence (disaster protection)

Border

• Similar to the German model during the WC 2006 temporary and situation-dependent border

controls

• As response to pertinent threat assessment possible control shortly before and/or after the

games at certain border sectors

Traffic/Transport

• Support of the 'Traffic Platform' in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure by the Ministry of the Interior

• Measures under planning: Creation of a combi ticket Creation of a routing system Traffic information

(in cooperation with ORF-Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)

Driver-guide service

(only for teams, referees, and the UEFA-president)

Crisis Management/Civil Defence

• Responsibility of the provinces

• Coordination of all measures by the MI

• Completion of the Operations Concepts Preparation of disaster scenarios

Stadia Public Viewing events city centre areas

• Installation of a separate "EURO-Hotline"

CID

• Enhanced measures with respect to preventing illegal immigration aiming at

prostitution combating pocket picking

• Before and during the EURO 2008 - High Impact Operations

• Increased patrolling of "Hot Spots" during the EURO2008, such as Shopping Malls, shopping streets Public Viewing events

Prevention

• Austrian spotters

• Foreign spotters

• Cooperation with operators ofpublic transport (e.g. Federal Railways), cities,

industry, and other institutions

• Cooperation with the organiser (construction measures in the stadia, accreditation, ticketing, stewards)

• Setting up so-called "Fan Embassies"

Personnel

• All available law enforcement officers will be called in

• Ban on leaves/vacations during the EURO 2008

Training

• Basic, specialised and ongoing training of Austrian officers Operations Units

by WEGA Vienna

Crowd Control Police Units Spotters

• Joint training of forces involved in security executive level officers

Joint scenario training at the venues

Private Security companies Joint training of "intermediary management"

Police Information Coordination Center (PICC)NationalFootball

Information Centers

Coordinator BVT

Coordinator .BK

Coordinator Traffic/Tran

sport

Coordinator Border

Coordinator Crowd Control

• Located within the MI

• Tasks: Collecting, evaluating, disseminating, and processing

all intelligence from Austria and from abroad of relevance for Euro08

Daily Status Report

Synchronising situation and analysis information with the PICC Switzerland

• Drawing up decision aids for top executives and commanding staff

Liaison Officers

PICC - Vienna PICC – Bern

Spotters

Present implementation statusMeasures

Dr. G. Marek , Head of the former sub-department II/2/e, was mandated by Minister Strasser to draft a "Security Concept EURO 2008“

January 2003

Approval of the national Security Concept, and implementation mandate by Minister Prokop

26 September 2005

Approval of joint Security Concept Austria /Switzerland by Minister L. Prokop (A) and Federal Councillor Schmid (CH)

28 September 2005

Security Concept presented in Parliament 29 November 2005

Deployment during the FIFA WC 2006 in Germany 9 June to 9 July 2006

1st Conference of Adjacent States in Vienna 29 Nov. to 1 Dec. 2006

2nd Conference of Adjacent States in Zurich 13-14 December 2007

3rd Conference of Adjacent States in Vienna Spring 2008

Simulation of the EURO 2008 As of 30 May 2007

Commencement of taking all necessary measures 1 May 2008

Simulational and Operational Phase

• Simulation phase: 30 May to 30 Nov. 2007 Practising phase of the MI

Rehearsal of the entire operational and logistic deployment

Cooperation at all security levels

Cooperation with UEFA, ÖFB, private security companies,

other involved ministries, and institutions

comprises ÖFB international matches, starting with

Austria vs. Scotland on 30 May 2007 Experiences are constantly evaluated and reviewed

• Operational phase: as of 1 May 2008

1st Conference of Adjacent, Transit and Participating Countries from 29 Nov. to 1 Dec. 2006

in Vienna

• Contents of the conference: Information on the state of the preparations Legal situation with respect to

Data exchange

Deployment of foreign law enforcement officers

Exit bans

Stadium bans

Measures to control transit

Willingness to grant assistanceCooperation in the sector mediaPolitical Declarations of Intent

Public Viewing

PortugalEURO 2004

GermanyWM 2006

AustriaSwitzerlan

d

EURO 2008

Spectators in the stadia 1,170,000 3,200,000 550,000 510,000

Visitors (excl. Austrian guests)

PUBLIC VIEWING860,000 14,000,000

abt. 1,650,000

approx. 1,500,000

Public Viewing – Recommendations (1)

• Enclosing the venues• Limiting the numbers of viewers depending on

the local circumstances• Imposing closing times• Access control by qualified stewards• Use of "wave breakers", if more than 10,000

viewers• Video surveillance, if necessary• Adequate number of medical staff• Ban on pyrotechnical items

Public Viewing – Recommendations (2)

• No alcohol except light beer• No bottled drinks• Fixed tables and benches• Loudspeaker system ("on-site speaker")• Substitute programme• Avoiding construction work in the vicinity of the event(s)• Timely information of local residents, catering

businesses,....• Providing parking lots

Synchronising with Switzerland

• Security Concept:

Drafting and implementing in close cooperation with Switzerland