So it's just an extension of the fitting of barriers to increase security of the stadium due to safety concerns from Special branch?
Does this means the grazing dobbins will be evicted and the Polish beer can dumping facility will be closed during the week?
If people wanted to blow up the stadium they'd do it, regardless of barriers & gates. Maybe the Allams have called up Man City tonight & that's why the Etihad was evacuated, then they have first hand proof of the possibility of Stadiums being targeted!
At least if they do we can be safe in the knowledge they've paid full whack & not sneaked in on a suicide bomber child's ticket.
It's more likely that these fences and gates are going up to stop people spraying '**** Off Allam' on the side of the stadium again.
I believe they're fencing and gating the entire stadium. Obviously, if you were keen enough, you could still get in (the fence isn't much over 4ft), but you'll no longer be able to amble up to it.
The stadium is a "crowded place", and would fall into the remit of a CTSO... Basically a security consultant, advising on how to mitigate risk and reduce the threat of a Paris style attack. Target hardening is part of a risk management strategy, but whether this step is genuinely motivated by police advice is open to debate. The letter is a right bag of waffle, and not even close to being a compelling argument. Although, it may be that the move is called for under a specific risk assesssment that exists? The bad bit is that assesment won't be made public, for obvious security reasons, so we may never know!
I have to say that I fully support the SMC and Hull City Council on this subject, I mean ISIS will likely turn up, see the new gate on Argyle Street, and think '**** that there are easier targets'.
Surely that applies to everywhere in town, like St Stephens and Prinny Quay, Jobcentre, DLA building, Divas, Admiral, Primark?
Terrorism ? What a ****ing joke , like the bag searches last time where you got searched or not depending on if the stewards could be bothered
Major shopping centres, maybe. Most have now got bollards and other street furniture that inconspicuously provides a barrier.
If there's going to be a terrorist attack on the stadium, it would be when it's full of people, not in the middle of the night when there's no ****er there. I think the terrorist thing's a load of bollocks.
