Stadia Protection and Mitigation from Drone Incursion and Threats is a guideline that is the result of a collective effort of a select group of experts and organizations. The INTERPOL Project Stadia and INTERPOL Innovation Centre express gratitude to Brooke Tapsall, Gokul Srinivasan, Matt Service, and their team of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) experts for their invaluable contributions and support in the creation of this document.

This document provides guidelines for testing and evaluating Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Capabilities.

These guidelines are designed for INTERPOL member countries, serving as a resource to support ongoing preparatory work in countering Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS). They cater to two key audiences: security practitioners responsible for shaping concepts of operations, operational strategies, and plans, and first responders and police officers tasked with implementing, training, and responding effectively to incidents in stadia or events utilizing C-UAS technologies.

The objective is to outline the minimum requirements for law enforcement organizations to prepare, test, and safeguard assets, events, or public spaces from malicious threats. The document identifies preparatory requirements, develops operational procedures, and creates an adversarial testing and evaluation framework to assess defense effectiveness and response to threat capabilities. Additionally, it highlights capacity-building aspects, outlining potential training areas. The insights and general guidelines provided are intended as a reference framework for planning and execution at both operational and tactical levels.

Stadia Protection and Mitigation from Drone Incursion and Threats contains the following major sections:

  • Stadia Overview and Threat Summary
  • Stadia Protection Phases
  • Protection Phase 1: Operational Procedure Development
  • Operational Procedures and Response Plans
  • Emergency, Stakeholder and Communication Plans
  • Public Information: Deterrent Considerations
  • Protection Phase 1: Recommendations
  • Protection Phase 2: C-UAS Technology
  • Protection Phase 2: Recommendations
  • Protection Phase 3: Red Teaming Operations Adversarial Testing
  • Red Teaming Operation Planning Stages
  • Protection Phase 3: Recommendations
  • Protection Phase 4: Training
  • Protection Phase 4: Recommendations

This document must not be reproduced in whole or in part and in any form without special permission from INTERPOL in its capacity as the copyright holder. A link to the document is provided for readers at the bottom of the page to access the document on the Interpol website.

Authors- The INTERPOL Project Stadia and INTERPOL Innovation Centre express gratitude to Brooke Tapsall, Gokul Srinivasan, Matt Service, and their team of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) experts

See Also-

UAS in Urban Attacks- Red Teaming Exercise Report

INTERPOL Drone Countermeasure Exercise Report

Framework for Responding to a Drone Incident

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