AGM Security Services

Why have security at an AGM?

Intelligent Protection has been providing AGM (Annual General Meeting) security services for companies around the globe for over a decade. With years of experience in safeguarding high-profile events, we fully understand that your company’s reputation is paramount. As the AGM is one of the most important events in a corporation’s calendar, it serves as a vital platform for your organization to present its annual performance to shareholders and stakeholders. Ensuring that this event runs smoothly and without disruption is critical to maintaining a positive public image.

Our highly trained and professional security personnel play a key role in setting the tone for a successful AGM. From greeting attendees to providing discreet and vigilant oversight, we focus on creating an environment where your team can present with confidence, and attendees feel secure and welcome. Whether working front-of-house or behind the scenes, our personnel provide the assurance that your meeting is safeguarded against potential disturbances, allowing your executives to focus on delivering their message without distraction.

Understanding the threats to your AGM

In recent years, there has been a noticeable rise in incidents involving organized protests and activist groups targeting corporate and private events, including AGMs, as part of a broader effort to draw attention to their causes. These protests are often highly coordinated, aiming to disrupt proceedings and generate publicity. With protest tactics evolving and becoming more sophisticated, the risk of disturbance to high-profile corporate events has significantly increased.

At Intelligent Protection, we are constantly adapting our security strategies to meet these emerging challenges, the starting point being our Security Risk Assessments. We recognize that ensuring the safety of your event is not just about preventing physical disruptions, but also about protecting your company’s reputation from negative exposure. Our team stays ahead of the curve by monitoring protest activity, assessing potential risks, and implementing tailored security measures that deter and manage threats in a professional, discreet, and effective manner. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that your AGM proceeds without incident, allowing you to focus on what matters most—your business.

Tactics have included spraying substances, throwing paint, rushing speakers on the stage and generally, being disruptive. Protesters want easy targets and they want to be heard. What they don’t want is to encounter professional security teams!

We have published an article on how to effectively address activism, which you may find helpful. You can access the article here: Combating Activists.

Having great security at your AGM will combat this in a number of ways, firstly protesters are a lot less likely to obtain access if there is intelligence in place and robust yet measured security in attendance.

Secondly, if you are planning to disrupt an AGM and encounter professional security and know that you are a lot less likely to succeed in disrupting proceedings, you are less likely to make an attempt to do so.

Overall, our job is all about safety and the comfort of your guests and shareholders.

How does the new UK Martyn's law affect AGM's?

Any event with 200 or more attendees must carry out a Security Risk Assessment at "Standard Tier" with events over this needing to conduct more rigorous Security Risk Assessments at "Enhanced Tier". Further, if your event is high-profile, it is also advisable to carry out a Security Risk Assessment.

Security Risk Assessments are used to proide mitigation measures and should address such as terrorisim, distruption by actavists, major incidents such as fire and flod etc.

Intelligent Protection has a highly experienced, qualified and competent team that can conduct the security risk assessment for your Annual General Meeting. For reference, also see our article on Martyn's law: Understanding Martyn’s Law for Event Organisers.

Our AGM Security services

Depending on the level of risk identied in the Security Risk Assessment and the acceptable level of risk dictated by the client, we can deploy a wide range of mitigation measures to ensire your Annual General Meeting is a sucess.

We only employ former military and police operatives and we believe that we can provide the very best to our clients and enhance their events through well-trained and well-briefed operatives. Besides, we are able to offer our clients multilingual security operatives who will further enhance safety at your event.

Further to this, we are able to offer our clients multilingual security operatives who will further enhance safety at your event.

Based on the level of threat identified, our AGM Security services can include a combination of:

• Security Risk Assessing and Emergency planning
• Male and female former military and police operatives
• Qualified search teams
• Search arches and search wands
• Explosive Detection Search Dogs
• Threat monitoring intelligence
• TSCM Sweeps

We are well-versed at working with clients from the early planning stage and in providing Risk Assessments for venues as well as Evacuation Plans and Major Incident Management Plans.

Some but not all AGMs may require a Search Policy to be put in place. We are happy to work with our clients in producing a policy that is suitable for the event and attendees.

Intelligent Protection International Limited can also supply search equipment and specialist search dog teams, as required.

If you are interested in discussing with us your requirements or wish to know more about our AGM security services, please do get in touch with us via our London office - Tel: +44 207 4566740, our office in Paris - Tel: +33 1 82 888340, our Geneva office - Tel: +41 22 5017275 or via email [email protected]