Riot Police Tactics

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Riot Police Tactics and Crowd Surveillance

“Finding the location of a riot before it has started helps riot police tactics. Viseum’s crowd software monitors our city cameras and the social media sources we are lawfully authorised to access. It helps stop rioting before crowd control becomes a problem.” (Metropolitan Police)

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A Viseum IMC camera picks one person out of a crowd and follows them from camera to camera, beside a fixed standard camera that cannot.

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Social Media – Situational awareness for riot control

Crowd software

Many thousands of people attend political rallies. Sometimes, crowds will rapidly meet to protest.

Viseum’s crowd software monitors city cameras and the social media sources the customer is lawfully authorised to access. Using that social media chatter, the locations of possible riots can be automatically found. Also, where violent disorder breaks out, the people taking part in it can be automatically recorded, indexed and reported for investigation.

Riot Police Tactics – Create long-term deterrent against city rioting

Viseum Central Intelligent Video Management Software (Viseum CiVMS) monitors a city’s potential riot areas for crowd gathering. Using social media sources the customer is lawfully authorised to access, the locations of possible violent disorder can be automatically found. Also, where disorder breaks out, people taking part in it can be automatically recorded, indexed and reported for investigation. When the number of people in a crowd reaches levels of risk, Viseum’s Rapid Deploy can be taken to potential riot locations. This automatically collects the identification of people committing public disorder, creating the best deterrent to control rioting crowds.

Riot Organisers

Viseum’s Riot Police system saves countries many millions. It does this by automatically deterring and investigating each riot emergency. It effectively stops many potential riots. Viseum delivers the only Product Solution for riot police to have complete situational awareness, with close-up video evidence of riot organisers and perpetrators of public disorder.

Viseum riot solutions are supplied to protect the public and officers during violent disorder, not to monitor lawful protest or political activity. Large crowds gather for many lawful events, and violent disorder is not always expected. Sometimes, a crowd gathers rapidly and the situation turns violent. A crowd behaviour algorithm is used. Situational awareness information is collected about where and how fast crowds are growing. This is sent to Command Control. Identities of known repeat offenders are sent automatically. Senior riot police officers will strategise for riot police tactics.

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Riot police tactics planning meeting

Photos of Stuart Thompson, President of the Viseum UK Group and CEO of Viseum International Limited, personally supporting Malaysia’s riot police tactics and training in time for a major public event.

Riot Tactics in Malaysia

This example is Viseum listening to the challenges faced by Malaysia’s Police. Viseum customised its Riot Police solution to deliver automated situational awareness for Kuala Lumpur riot police control.

Viseum representatives at a Royal Malaysia Police dinner

Stuart Thompson, President of the Viseum UK Group and CEO of Viseum International Limited, meets with the Deputy Chief Commissioner of Kuala Lumpur Police to discuss riot control strategies.

Firstly, the Malaysian language was added to the Viseum CiVMS Video Management System. The Viseum CiVMS video archiving system was customised to help the riot police bookmark certain events, including faces and people in the crowd, for each riot police operation. A design for unbreakable wireless communications was also required. Riot police in their command control could not lose valuable evidence and information.

Riot Police Tactics

The success of these riot police tactics is because there is no escaping the extensive coverage of Viseum cameras. Nobody wants their face recognised on broadcast-quality cameras. Viseum now helps Malaysia’s riot police deliver peaceful public events.

Training riot police tactics

Riot Police Tactics - team leaders

Royal Malaysia Police Leaders.

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