Title – Petrol Bomb attack
Date – July 2001
This level of aggression demonstrated here at the Polices TSG training centre during the polices own training programme is not an area that Beyond The Blue specialises in… we believe that the best training available in such situations is a running coach…
At Beyond The Blue, we are aware that most of our clients are more interested in low impact techniques. By low-impact disengagement and personal safety techniques we refer to those which do not require force or strength, but rely on a cool head and intelligence. Research clearly shows that meeting force with force only intensifies the level of aggression. We train individuals to recognise the signs of escalating aggression and train individuals how to reduce the risks before they demonstrate themselves as aggressive behaviour.
If however aggression is encountered we teach, as part of our Physical Intervention course, techniques that create the space and the opportunity to get help or to use non aggressive techniques to deescalate the aggressive situation without the need to use force.
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Title – Riot Training
Date – July 2001
Managers and staff at Beyond The Blue have had a variety of experience and training; this includes observation of training at the Police’s TSG training centre. We believe however that attempting to recreate training such as that offered to the police in the private sector, where financial and time constraint often mean that we only have a day or two available to train individuals is ineffective. The police, military and martial arts experts take years of continuous training in order to perfect their techniques and trying to recreate them in the short space of time available to us, is ineffective.
For our Conflict Management and Resolution, Physical Intervention and Personal Safety Courses we have developed simple personal safety and low-impact disengagement and restraint techniques that are easy to learn and easy to remember. They create time and space between you and an aggressor allowing you enough time to regroup, seek help or call for the police to do what they do best. Beyond The Blue specialises in teaching techniques that deescalate situations and do not escalates them, we consider ourselves proactive rather then reactive.
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Title – Happy Crowd
Date – June 2001
The management at Beyond The Blue gain most job satisfaction from these kinds of images. Our goal in the extensive planning we carry out for any event is that the customers enjoy the event they are attending.
Ultimately we want the public not to notice the extensive planning and organisation; we want our staff to blend in so they do not draw attention to themselves, yet we expect them to be clearly visible when required.
Our Event Management team can help you put together and event that will generate this kind of response from your customers and create an effect on those attending that they will remember for some time to come.
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Title – Summer Ball – Royal Holloway University of London
Date – June 2000
Event Management can take many forms, it can be as simple as providing management of an event for clients in the areas of security, or be more extensive and cover bars, catering, entertainments, technical co-ordination, artiste management, structure construction (such as marquees), fairground rides and local authority co-ordination.
Beyond the Blue can provide all these functions or any part of them. We can provide staff or work with in-house staff providing them with the training and guidance they require. We can also work with a mixture of Beyond The Blue Staff and in-house or contracted-in staff.
We are often contracted to effectively co-ordinate between the different areas involved in setting up such an event, as they do not always work well together.
The goal at what ever level we are involved is; that the final product is spectacular for our clients and their customers.
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Title – Royal Holloway University of London Summer Ball – Set Up
Date – June 2000
Big events in listed buildings such as the Founders Building at Royal Holloway University of London in Surrey can take months of planning to arrange. As well as the normal health and safety considerations that any event requires, there are the additional considerations of the set-up phase as well as the event phase to satisfy authorities and to ensure that the event enhances the venues and does not adversely affect it in any way. Once the set up process begins strict measures must be enforced to maintain the integrity of the listed building through the plans set down and agreed.
Beyond The Blue has extensive experience in such preparations having worked on events such as these for a number of years. Our Consultancy service can provide you with the vital experience you require to ensure the success of your event from start to finish.
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Title – Precious
Date – June 2000
Precious were at the time of this event one of the up and coming girl bands in the UK. Members of the Beyond The Blue Management team running this event had to ensure the protection of the individual members of this band who appealed to a specific demographic. Other acts at the same event appealed to a much more rock orientated demographic and as such a percentage of those attending had little interest in anything but the specific live act they had come to see.
The members of Beyond The Blue’s management running the event had to ensure that one set of fans did not upset the enjoyment of the others. As is expected all acts received rapturous welcomes and those small element intent on ruining the events for others were swiftly dealt with without disturbance and with the majority of those attending never even realising.
Our Event Security team has the experience to make your customers feel safe and to achieve this without the need for an aggressive show of force.
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Title – Dodgy
Date – June 2000
Dodgy presented the members of the Beyond The Blue team that managed the event at which they played a problem that can occur regularly at such events. There were several cases of young ladies wishing to get a much closer look at the artiste then it was safe to allow.
The team had to ensure the safety and integrity of the stage and back stage area with some very proactive methods. Our Event Security team and Event Managers have come across all the scenarios involved in dealing with artistes, fans and crowds and have the ability and experience to resolve any situations positively and professionally.
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