{"id":3239,"date":"2013-06-21T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=3239"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:03:23","slug":"g8-summit-fencing","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/g8-summit-fencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing world leaders in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #808080;\">It&#8217;s sometimes tough doing a job where I can&#8217;t talk about what I&#8217;m working on to family and friends. It feels a bit like I&#8217;m living the double life of a secret agent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">So it was earlier in the week when we did our job, then hoped nothing went wrong as the G8 Summit in Enniskillen of the world\u2019s most powerful politicians played out to its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">My company\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #404040;\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" data-wpil=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/\">Zaun<\/a>\u00a0was part of the reported \u00a360m security operation that involved 4,700 Police Service of Northern Ireland officers and 3,600 from other UK forces on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">The PSNI understandably wanted the securest <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/casestudies\/g8-fencing\/\"  title=\"G8\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">G8<\/a> ever at a time of \u2018severe terrorist threat\u2019 and hoped that its reputation for dealing with public disorder plus unprecedented physical, cyber, technical and logistical protection would keep many potential protesters away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">So they approached us to install an \u2018impregnable cordon\u2019 around the <a title=\"Protecting World Leaders to Now Protecting Injured Birds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/protecting-injured-birds\/\">world leaders<\/a> to guarantee their security throughout the summit at Lough Erne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">Our solution was to erect our 3.6m high SecureGuard PAS68 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/emergency-fencing\/\" title=\"Security fences close roads in Cumbria\">security fencing along the 5.7km length of the public road<\/a> on one side of the site, integrated with rising arm barriers and 10 PAS68 gates for secure access control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">And to install nearly a kilometre of our RDS on either end to take the security cordon to the banks of and even into Lough Erne through remoter areas <a title=\"Around the edge of the Emirates\u2019 racing riches\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/meydan-racecourse-fencing\/\">around the edge<\/a> of forest land, dirt tracks and grassy knolls with the undulating ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">Even in such severe environments and with what was, after all, just a temporary installation, RDS has been proven to protect against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/products\/358-vehicle-gates\/\" title=\"358 Vehicle Gates\">vehicle<\/a> and mob attack. The police even blasted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/temporary-fencing-for-events\/\" title=\"Events which require temporary fencing\">temporary fence<\/a> with water cannon on full power in a test, but the system remained secure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">A team of about 50, backed by logistics, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/about-us\/mesh-manufacturer\/\"  title=\"manufacturing\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">manufacturing<\/a> and health &amp; safety experts, took 10 days to put in the entire system and 6 days to remove it once the summit was over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">The Home Office owns most of the system as part of the National Barrier Asset and first used it for four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/securing-political-party-conferences\/\" title=\"Securing political party conferences\">political conferences<\/a> on the mainland in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">So now it&#8217;s over, and I can reveal our role in outline at least; I&#8217;m proud to have been part of another successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/blog\/security-for-major-events\/\" title=\"The critical 3Cs of securing major events\">major security<\/a> operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">And when I read what PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott\u00a0said when\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #404040;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-22967875\">talking to BBC News<\/a>, it makes me prouder still:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8216;The (security) investment has proven itself to be more than worthwhile. We made planning assumptions based on the previous G8s. I wouldn&#8217;t do anything differently if we started again. Some people wanted to come here and violently protest. The fact that they didn&#8217;t have been due to the policing.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes tough doing a job where I can&#8217;t talk about what I&#8217;m working on to family and friends. It feels a bit like I&#8217;m living the double life of a secret agent. 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