Travelers who are planning to participate in crowded events such as parades, concerts, and sporting events have a legitimate reason to feel uneasy. In recent months, fatal attacks have caused confusion in New Orleans' New Year's celebration and Mugdeburg in Germany, and the threat of terrorism has canceled other major events around the world.
However, messages from security and terrorism experts are easy. Don't win fear.
“Terrorists are looking for the biggest advertisements and the biggest compensation. They want people to feel everywhere. Colin P, a research director of the Intelligence and Security Consulting Company. Clark said, “You have to live your life,” even if it sounds very scary.
Police stations and other organizations use not only behind the scenes but also visible security layers to protect the crowd. For example, the New York Police Station will start preparing and collecting intelligence in front of a large gathering. Later, during the event, to provide protection and immediately after, he will develop a combination of plain cross and uniforms, and Deputy Director James Kaho, the commander of the terrorism department in the department. I said. In order to strengthen security around the event, the police sometimes place concrete blocks and park hygiene trucks to prevent vehicles from entering a crowded pedestrian area.
Of course, there is no security measure to provide absolute protection against all threats, but experts say that there are several things to keep themselves, family and friends safely in the crowd.
Know you around you
Before heading to a crowded area, use a mobile phone mapping app to get land laying. Please pay attention to the flow of transportation, the possibility of the exit, the shelter, the police and emergency services.
After that, be careful by cleaning up your mobile phone, or as a deputy member Rebecca Winer of the New York Police Station on the Terrorism Bureau of the New York Police Station, “Please come out from the phone and look around you.”
She should be especially alert to the people around you. They can help you to notice the immediate danger more quickly.
Create and share an emergency plan
Before you go, plan to do what to do if something goes wrong, Steve Allen, founder of Crowd Safety, a British safety consulting company who advised major event organizers around the world I am.
In case of emergency, select a specific place away from the crowd as a rendezvous point where anyone and you can meet.
“I identified tall flags and tall structures, and said,” If you look and get lost, it's the place we will meet, “Allen said. “That's what I do during my vacation.”
Share your family or nearby people when you are looking for the address and contact information of where you are staying, what you are doing, what you are at home. He said so.
According to Allen, consider carrying a small gobag, which contains essentials such as water, snacks, medicine, emergency kit, and mobile phone chargers.
Please carry important health information for you
Do you have allergies? Do you need a specific medicine? Is there any obstacle that requires special attention? Put the information in the emergency information or medical ID function of the mobile phone so that it can be accessed from the lock screen, bring a card to the wallet, wear a medical ID, or execute all three.
In the case of an emergency, you can bring this personal information somewhere in you -you can drop in and leave, not in a bag or wallet, but an emergency personnel need to treat you. Allen said, if one could save your life.
If you travel abroad, you will have a copy of your passport, especially if you have a health condition that requires special consideration from emergency medical staff, learn some important phrases in local languages.
Don't ignore your instinct
“If you see something, say something,” it is a slogan that most New Yorkers know, but especially crowded events are applied to public safety.
How can you know if the threat or behavior of social media is suspicious? Indicates your intestines, an expert says.
“People tend to disable instinct,” said Deputy Director Winer. She added that if you encountered something that was not sitting well with you, you should not be afraid or hesitant to talk to the police or other guards.
“These are all very intuitive principles on how to navigate the world safely,” said Winer.
Create a security checklist
When you are excited to participate in the Taylow Wift concert, gathering of pride, or participating in a super bowl, security may not be intuitive as you remember your tickets. Therefore, it may be useful for creating a Pretravel security checklist in order to incorporate many of these hints and train yourself until these precautionary measures become the second nature.
The bonus is that having a checklist itself can alleviate a part of anxiety, and these experts say, and if you arrive there, you can focus on the most important thing.
“We should be there, we should travel and do about us,” said Winer.
