Sports fans and festival goers will enjoy greater peace of
mind from vehicle as a weapon (VAAW) attacks with the arrival of a new
lightweight rapid-deploy vehicle security barrier (VSB).
The Rapid Defender temporary VSB was deployed in minutes to
protect spectators and competitors from VAAW threat at the London Marathon and
at football stadia and events the length and breadth of the country.
Rosehill Security, a leading global manufacturer of
perimeter security solutions, has created the innovative hostile vehicle
mitigation (HVM) barrier, made up of robust units of recycled rubber weighing
just 49kg each.
StadiumTM – a specialist event services supplier of traffic
management, stewarding, security and training services to the events industry
that protects crowds at Premier League and EFL clubs, festivals and city wide
events – is extolling its benefits.
Founder, owner and MD David McAtamney says: “We want
to change the face of crowd safety through HVM barriers. The Rapid
Defender makes this a reality because of its speed of deployment – our teams
installed 13m of the barrier in just five minutes at the London Marathon!”
More than 150 people have died in 18 months of VAAW in
cities from London to Manhattan and Melbourne – and just last week, Toronto.
Rosehill Security has designed the Rapid Defender
specifically to provide protection for crowds of people from such attacks.
Sales manager Dalton Marshall says: “It is surface-mounted
with no foundations, and weighs less than a third of comparable concrete
barriers, so can be deployed in minutes almost anywhere, from the streets
surrounding stadia to uneven festival sites.”
The 333mm-wide units are connected by 20mm diameter steel
cables or rods, creating an HVM barrier of any length. Four men can
manually install a barrier across the width of a road in less than five minutes
with no special tools or lifting equipment. It can then be removed and
reused.
The Rapid Defender can be anchored or integrated with other
temporary or permanent HVM systems to create a stronger physical barrier as
part of an holistic HVM solution.
The Perimeter Security Suppliers Association (PSSA), to
which Rosehill Security belongs, has just launched a new online source of help
and information on HVM – the HVMHub – in conjunction with the Home Office’s
Joint Security and Resilience Centre.
