Invisible Security at Sport Events: The Criminal Aspects of Sport Security

Absztrakt

Aim: The article presents the triumvirate of measures used in each age to guarantee the safety of major sport events from ancient times to the present day; the development and application of legal, physical and personal security tools. The thesis presents the sport and prominent sport events in the 20th century. It’s importance in the 20th century, the fundamental condition of which is the creation of security. The work touches on the scope of competence of private and public security organizations, and the importance of precisely coordinated cooperative task execution.

Methodology: The authors present the 20th century evolutionary processes that led us to the safe organization of major sport events in Hungary, and give an overview of how individual factors influence the security of sport events, which crimes are related to the narrower and wider environment of the event, and which security professionals must consider as risk factors. We highlight the importance of the activity carried out by criminal experts; outline the elements of preventive and proactive measures, the substance of the conspiratorial tasks of detectives and criminal intelligence officers.

Findings: Security incidents at sporting events are broad but well-defined crimes. In the age of changes, the solution to ensuring security can be enhanced by complementary policing and the tools that available for the criminal service branch of the police, which have been used for centuries and millennia, and by future-oriented technological tools.

Value: Based on the authors' existing knowledge and policing knowledge, as well as the results of the research, beyond simple visualization, a system of policing tools that can be used in the future to guarantee the safety of sporting events can be predicted, which will facilitate the conduct of a safe sporting event.