Independent expert licensing consultancy
Shield Associates are experienced in all aspects of Licensing protection, impact assessments and providing expert witness evidence at Licensing Hearings. We have the ability to protect your licence from revocation or having highly restrictive conditions placed upon it following a Licensing review. We have many years of Law enforcement and practitioner experience in policing large and smaller night-time venues across London and the Home Counties.
We are able to undertake full risk and impact assessments to support licensing applications, especially in cumulative impact or special priority areas. We can also conduct forensic reviews of your operating systems and processes and provide a documented action plan to ensure compliance with the licensing provisions.
We can design out crime from your establishments and set up protocols for combating specific crime i.e. mobile phone thefts, door queuing, ejection policies, drug seizures, duty of care and meeting with representatives from the police, community and local authority.
Disciplines offered:
- Protection of Licence from enforcement activities
- Forensic crime scene awareness
- Impact of drunkenness and mitigation strategies
- Conflict management
- Personal safety and physical intervention
- Ejections - use of force and rule of law
- Positional asphyxia awareness
- Vulnerable Persons
- Alcohol awareness
- Drug awareness and detection
- Crowd management, queuing and dispersal procedures
- Customer service
- Policy review of existing protocols
- Forensic review of Police and Licensing authority crime and complaints data
Security Products
- ID scanning technology for entry to venue
- CCTV, door entry systems, access control and asset tagging