Notting Hill Carnival Strategic Review - Intelligent Space

1. We believe that NHCT must be supported as the lead organisation responsible for coordinating
an effective public safety strategy for Carnival. We therefore recommend:
a. That resources be made available to enable NHCT to appoint a risk assessment officer.
b. The short-term secondment of staff from the GLA and its functional bodies to NHCT in
order to supplement the organisation’s existing staffing structure. Secondments should
commence as soon as possible and continue until September 2001.
2. We recommend that the GLA work with NHCT to develop an urgent Carnival communications
strategy to include residents, stakeholder organisations, Carnival participants and the media.
This strategy must ensure that:
a. There is a pre-carnival publicity campaign, which emphasises the public safety profile of
the event with the message that those visiting Carnival with the intention of committing
crime will be caught and punished.
b. A general appeal is made to the public to assist and work together with the police in the
interests of public safety.
Route Management & Stewarding
3. We believe that the distinct, but complimentary roles of stewarding and route management
must be maintained and that a lack of available resources has meant that the level and
standard of both has suffered. Effective crowd management is an essential feature of any
public safety strategy and we therefore recommend that:
a. Immediate steps be taken by the current funders of NHCT to make additional resources
available in order to significantly increase the number of route marshals and stewards that
will be recruited, trained and deployed for Carnival 2001. This will ensure that police
officers are able to address their strategic priorities of crime detection and prevention.
b. NHCT work with the MPS in order to:
i. Integrate route marshals and stewards into the MPS’ strategic plan for Carnival,
together with the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure effective
co-ordination and communication between all parties.
ii. Introduce a new training programme for stewards and route marshals reflecting the
festival’s co-ordinated approach to crowd management and public safety.
Carnival Route and Location
4. In order to reduce congestion on the route and facilitate completion by competition
bands/floats, it is our recommendation that:
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