Preparing your security management team for protest situations

enneth Macleod, Training Manager at Risk Management Resources Ltd, discusses ways to prepare security management teams for protest situations.

Every person in the UK has a right to protest peacefully.

Article 10, freedom of expression and Article 11, freedom of assembly are qualified rights of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which was ratified by the UK in 1951.

In 1998, the passing of the Human Rights Act ensured that these rights were enacted in UK law.

There is an understanding that peaceful protest is allowed and should not be interfered with by the state.