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AIF appoint Showsec for joint festival crime task force
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 8 June 2009
The Association Of Independent Festivals has announced a deal with security giant Showsec who will head up their anti-festival-campsite crime task force.
The aim is to have a coordinated operation between all the indie festivals signed up to AIF in a bid to tackle organised groups who target all festival campsites in a bid to nick valuables left by festival-goers at the bottom of ruck sacks. Successfully identifying and prosecuting these gangs, it’s hoped, would dramatically cut the levels of crime on the average festival site. Showsec were chosen to set up the task force after the job was put up for tender by the AIF last Autumn.
Confirming Showsec’s appointment, AIF co-founder Rob da Bank told reporters: “We announced the AIF Security Task Force earlier this year as one of the cornerstones of why I wanted to form AIF in the first place and we’ve been working hard with the security industry and with AIF members to get a working plan which we now have. We feel confident we’re now in a position to help make a difference to help protect the public who attend our events”.
Showsec’s Simon Battersby added: “We fully support the AIF’s initiative to reduce crime at festivals, and we are extremely pleased to be working alongside them this year to enable festivals to clamp down on crime”.
