MAJOR EVENT SECURITY

IR has provided specialist planning, strategic and operational services to over 120 international mega and major events, and political summits.

Our skilled personnel have successfully completed projects on 12 Olympic Games, seven Commonwealth Games, five FIFA World Cups and numerous other major events – including Asian, Pan-American and South American (Odesur) Games; Rugby World Cups; and various APEC, CHOGM, G20 and NATO political summits.

IR has been the contracted security advisers to Commonwealth Sports since 2004 – evaluating the security and safety components of bids to host the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games; evaluating and assuring planning by the various Organising Committees responsible for event delivery and providing operational coordination of Commonwealth Sports security responsibilities during the events.

We regularly advise bid teams for the world’s largest sports events including World Cups and Olympic Games.  IR was the security adviser to the successful bids awarded hosting rights for the Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024, and Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  We are advising on the proposed bid by Budapest to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

IR was the advisers on security, safety and related venue overlays to the successful Rugby Australia bid to host the 2027 Men’s and 2029 Women’s Rugby World Cups; as well as the successful UK Sport bid to host the UEFA Euro 2028 Championships in England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Our personnel advise on sports precincts, stadia and venue security design and overlays all over the world, including for major sports infrastructure projects in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Greece, India, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, New Zealand, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia,Singapore, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

We are regularly contracted into operational coordination roles at major events – including at Olympic and Commonwealth Games and World Cups.  For instance, an IR team was contracted by a major international media organisation to coordinate security for its broadcasting, publishing, streaming and hospitality cohorts at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Go to Testimonials. We also provided support to the Australian Olympic Committee for its team deployments to those games, notably to the surfing competition in Tahiti.