IP video surveillance during sports events

The vandalism becomes common practice on the stadiums, turning the sports games from amusement into events with high risk for viewers, players, stadium personal and even the nearby passing citizens. Evidence for this trend is the increasing number of policemen engaged in security presence of football games and the attempts for legislative solving of the problem are not having much success up to now.

Implementing of IP video surveillance system on the territory of the football stadiums and areas around them, could solve many of the problems. The reduced number of broken seats and other property could save funds of the football clubs and country budget (fewer policemen engaged with football games security) and sometimes even saving human lives.

The combination between IP video surveillance and analytical system could have massive preventative effect, as at the entrances of the stadiums the people repeated offenders as football hooligans can be identified and their access to the sport event – restricted.

IP based solution for video surveillance can recognize illegal behavior amongst the audience, covering large area and many viewers – something impossible for standard security of a stadium. IP video surveillance reduces reaction time against vandalism and flawlessly recognizes the actual offender. It is particularly useful for arguments between fans and police officers, when the latter are accused of power abuse.