Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies play an essential role in ensuring public safety during major events. To effectively manage these events, they utilize a tool chest of comprehensive planning strategies, which should encompass operational security planning, crisis response and incident management, emergency response and recovery, and judicial prosecution. This is known as the proactive, reactive and judicial cycle of effective operational event safety management. 

In this article, our Subject Matter Experts have used their experience planning and supporting agencies during major events to compile an overview of comprehensive strategies for law enforcement leaders tasked with preparing for an event in their jurisdiction.