Sir Ian Johnston has been appointed as the London 2012 Organising Committee’s Director of Security and Resilience.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is responsible for routine in-venue security at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in addition to its wider corporate responsibilities for resilience and contingency planning.
Sir Ian has had a distinguished 44 year career in the police service and is about to complete an eight year term as Chief Constable of British Transport Police.
Sir Ian will manage the relationship with all key security stakeholders including the Home Office’s Olympic Security Directorate. He will contribute to the Government’s Olympic security strategy which embraces the security work of all agencies involved including LOCOG.
He will take forward the strategic development of LOCOG’s in-venue security planning and ensure that all plans are fully integrated with other functional areas including workforce, accreditation, ticketing, transport, and command and control as well as wider Government security planning. Additionally he will work closely with stakeholders to ensure an integrated resilience plan for the Games including information security risks.
At Games time he will have responsibility for overseeing in-venue security operations at competition and non-competition venues including perimeter security, Villages security, field of play security, transport security, and emergency management response.
Sir Ian said “The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are a massive opportunity to showcase London and the UK. Security is a vital part of ensuring we host a spectacular and successful event and I am very much looking forward to playing my part in meeting that challenge.”
Sir Ian joined the Metropolitan Police in 1965 and has held senior positions with the Met, as well as with Kent County Constabulary. He has been Chief Constable of British Transport Police for the last eight years. He has been the Association of Chief Police Officers’ lead on crime for the last five years. He is currently Chair of the Police Sport UK Cycling Committee and a trustee of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. He has served on various government working parties over the years, including the Youth Justice Task Force and more recently was a member of the Home Secretary’s working party on crime statistics. He was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2009.
He is married with two sons. In his spare time he enjoys jogging and is Chairman of a boys’ football club in Orpington, Kent.
He takes up his position in late September.
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