{"id":3766,"date":"2021-05-03T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:10:28","slug":"scottish-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/scottish-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our Events Team were deployed at Braehead Arena for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Votes were being counted at the Arena, in Renfrew, for Renfrewshire\u2019s three constituencies and the West Scotland region over Friday &amp; Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Our team supported more than 200 counting staff and other agencies in various roles, with heightened security and enhanced Covid-19 health and safety measures in place to ensure a safe environment for everyone attending.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our events team we also deployed some of our Specialist Security Officers (SSO\u2019s) who are trained specifically in detecting individuals with criminal or hostile intentions by observing their behaviours and activities.<\/p>\n<p>Braehead Arena Operations Team commented \u201cPlease pass on my thanks to all your team for their hard work over the past week in the arena. The client was delighted with the level of service and the manner in which the team performed their role whilst getting the job done to their usual high standard. Hopefully we\u2019ll have an opportunity sooner rather than later to do it all again at Braehead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3798\" src=\"http:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SPE2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SPE2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SPE2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SPE2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our Events Team were deployed at Braehead Arena for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections. Votes were being counted at the Arena, in Renfrew, for Renfrewshire\u2019s three constituencies and the West Scotland region over Friday &amp; Saturday. Our team supported more than 200 counting staff and other agencies in various roles, with heightened security and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityscotland.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}