Why Your Convention Needs A Security Plan
Does your convention have a security plan? If not you might want to think about what occurred today in San Diego at ComicCon. I have written about ComicCon before and it is one of the conferences I would most want to attend. It is unfortunate that today it had an issue with attendee violence.
It has been reported that in Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center where ComicCon was taking place that an attendee of a session was attacked by another attendee and allegedly stabbed in the eye with a pen over a dispute involving a seat. The attendees of ComicCon are very loyal fans and apparently issues caused the escalation of the incident. I read about the incident on Twitter and Facebook, which seems to be the breaking news rooms of today. I am not sure what all the facts are at this time but it made me think about convention security.
I will ask the question again. Does your convention have a security plan? I am sure in this particular instance the San Diego Convention Center had all the bases covered and it seems that the incident did not get further out of hand. As I understand it they had police there quickly and had the matter under control. I will discuss more about security in conventions or trade shows, but for now let’s see how the story of this unfolds.
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