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ICSS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SPORT SECURITY Vol 2 | No 1 Regulating the agent game Securing sport Foreword Foreword Get the latest edition of ICSS Journal on your iPad and online, fusing perceptive and timely insights with sport-security issues that are affecting the sporting generations of today, and of the future Mohammed Hanzab President, ICSS Dear Reader, his year was always going to be an amazing year for sport and for mega sporting events. With the staging of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the FIFA World Cup, the Commonwealth T Games, the Youth Olympic Games and the Asian Games, the focus on the importance of sport in our society and the focus on a country’s successful hosting of such sporting events is being watched under an intense global spotlight. While we want the focus to be on the elite athletes, who train for years to represent their sport and their countries, the reality is that the inevitable focus is very much on the safety and security of competitors and spectators. Sports news is forever moving from the back pages to the front pages – due, mostly, to issues around sport safety, security and integrity. These issues are at the very heart of the ICSS, representing our core business and are our day-to-day focus. This year is also an important one for the ICSS as an organisation. As we celebrate the milestone of only our third year in operation, I reflect on what has been achieved in such a short period of time. We have cemented our starting position as a leading expert in sport safety and security and are now working with major leagues, sporting events and international federations; and, we are rapidly becoming a recognised global hub of expertise in the field of sport integrity. With the regrettable growth of organised corruption in sport, our team of investigators and advisors, with unrivalled experience of working in the field to combat match-fixing and sports-results manipulation, are extremely busy. The ICSS is now in partnership with the European, Italian, Spanish and Qatar Professional leagues, with federations such as the World Professional I am pleased to note our partnership with the Deutsche Fußball Liga Billiards and Snooker Association, and at the end of last year we co-hosted major Forums at the United Nations and at the European Parliament on sport integrity. Our Director of Sport Integrity, Chris Eaton, meanwhile, has been involved with investigations into match-fixing and another growing integrity issue: that of fake sports agents defrauding young athletes, particularly in the world of football. This is another example of where sports bodies, government and law ICSS enforcement need to take a strong line to protect vulnerable young athletes INTERNATIONAL CENTRE from unscrupulous criminals: there is enough money in the game to protect FOR SPORT SECURITY people, there must also be the will to take action. I am also very pleased to note our new partnership with the Deutsche For more information visit www.icss-journal.newsdeskmedia.com Fußball Liga. Our Executive Director, Helmut Spahn, knows the DFL well, and we are confident that together we can develop a range of educational programmes, stadium management courses and security operating tools 3 ICSS Journal – Apple,Vol 2 the| No Apple 1 logo and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. ICSS Journal – Vol 2 | No 1 4 Foreword TM ICSS Sport Integrity Model ICSS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE Advancing the integrity of sport to safeguard the future FOR SPORT SECURITY to help support leagues and competition holders in their delivery of safe, secure, sustainable and profitable venues. PROTECT Helmut also spoke at the third annual FanKongress in Berlin in January, which brought together 700 members of fan organisations. Discussing • Strong statutes operating in all sport bodies the, at times tense, relationship between fans and police, he stressed the • Transparent integrity and importance of the two working together to deliver successful, fan-friendly due-diligence for all sport bodies events. This kind of engagement is an important aspect of the work the • Independent anonymous ICSS is doing in developing best practice approaches to safety and security. reporting mechanisms The ICSS’s ties with Italy and Germany have also taken a major step • Global integrity information forward. I am delighted that Giusy Versace has become an Ambassador for sharing across sports the Save the Dream programme. Along with other members of our star team, PREVENT INVESTIGATE Giusy will be helping with the new ‘Tifiamo positivo’ project, which is running in Italian schools and colleges – this will be an exciting opportunity for young • Harmonised government • Preventative investigation legislation and sport statutes resources for sport bodies people in combining creativity with sport integrity. • Integrated police and • An independent global The articles in this issue of the ICSS Journal clearly show the broad scope sport investigations intelligence collection and of integrity, safety and security challenges that face major sporting event sharing body for sport bodies • Independent and organisers and host governments. It is clear that biological passports are an integrity-driven referees ICSS and police • The support of government important way forward in the fight against doping, whether at the Olympics, • Protect sport’s image as a model Sport in football or in cycling. Match-fixing, and its associated evils, are now high on for the best in human behaviour regulators and the betting industry Integrity to provide investigative indicators the agenda for sports bodies, gambling agencies and governments, and our ModelTM and administrative evidence Biological passports are an important DELIVER CONSEQUENCES MONITOR way forward in the fight against doping • Harmonised disciplinary and • Promote for a single agency monitoring integrity systems across all sports international gambling to detect betting fraud for all sports own research conducted with the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne will • Internationally standardised hopefully advance the position with regard to strengthening and harmonising consequence delivery to corrupted • Sport specialists monitoring play to identity persons in sport suspicious matches legislation worldwide. One aspect of this legislation will concern data sharing • International database of persons • A procedure to advise and guiding sport and privacy, an issue that also arises in sports marketing and commercial complicit in sport corruption bodies on global corruption threat operations. With the rapid increase in connectivity in stadia, the technical • In-play corruption-prevention and legal aspects of data security are going to be ever-more important for procedures for urgent match-corruption alerts clubs and event organisers. With the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games successfully completed, the world now turns its eyes to “the Cup of Cups” – to quote Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. The prime security challenge at Sochi was to prevent a terrorist attack from external agents, and this was achieved in part through the creation of a wide security zone around Sochi and the mountain venue areas of Krasnaya Polyana. In Brazil, the security challenges with multiple venues creates a different risk environment, one that requires more complex security management. Securing the movement of thousands of fans, foreign and domestic, between cities and urban centres close to stadia and Fan Zones, while being prepared to respond rapidly to incidents, will be the major challenge in Brazil. We trust, and hope, all of these events are a huge success and the team at the ICSS is proud to play our part in ensuring safe, secure and fair sport. Yours sincerely, Mohammed Hanzab For further information about our Sport Integrity Services, contact us at [email protected] www.theicss.org ICSS Journal – Vol 2 | No 1 6 Contents Contents 36 Securing the World Cup The 12 Brazilian host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup present diverse security scenarios. Rafael Saliés and Samuel Logan profile the threats to be faced 42 Brazilian special forces prepare for World Cup security With security training under way for the World Cup, Nathan Barrick identifies the different components of Brazil's forces and the experience on which they draw 48 Visualising risk assessment for crowd safety Key details can be lost during the standard risk assessment process, but visual documentation improves information transfer, says Professor Keith Still Integrity 54 Time for change: US sports betting regulation Kevin Carpenter looks at the evolution of match-fixing in US sport and argues that the country could play a bigger role in stamping out the fraud 60 Fighting manipulation In May, the International Centre for Sport Security and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne will release a report on tackling match-fixing. Andy Brown spoke to Laurent Vidal, Chairman of the ICSS-Sorbonne Sport Integrity Program 66 Mapping the challenges Keir Radnedge explores the integrity and security factors facing Brazil, Contents FIFA and global sport as the 2014 World Cup finals draw closer Lunae Parracho/Corbis 70 Biological passports advance with new steroidal module Athlete biological passport uptake is on the rise and developing technically Vol 2 | No 1 News and opinion March 2014 8 A review of events and developments Looking at a new research project into the sustainable development of sports Technology economies; an