Event and festival security in the Netherlands

In an office or warehouse risks sit in fixed places and repeat themselves. At an event everything comes together once: a temporary site you probably do not use every day, an audience you do not know, sharp peak moments at the gate and the bar, alcohol or substances shaping the mood, and a permit that requires you to demonstrate up front how you cover overcrowding, incidents and evacuation. One badly placed fence, one narrow passage near the stage or one entrance that opens too late will hit your programme straight away.

The risk profile also shifts per type of event. A festival needs crowd management and drug awareness, a corporate event needs a representative look and clean VIP access, a sports match needs supporter separation, a wedding actually needs a doorman who barely looks like a doorman. We compose the crew per event on the experience and appearance that fit your audience, and brief them on your specific house rules.

Our event security is set up for organisations that run events regularly and for clients that put one big moment on the calendar each year. In practice we mainly work with:

• Festival organisers, outdoor and multi-day, from dance and urban to cultural and food festivals
• Corporate event agencies producing product launches, conferences, trade shows and networking events
• Venues, halls and theatres that manage a fixed location and need a crew per booking
• Sports clubs and associations for matches and tournaments with an audience
• Wedding venues and private clients for closed parties and jubilees
• Municipalities, cultural institutions and museums for openings, commemorations and public events

Do you run a fixed site that is open every day, with no event programme? Then our object security page fits better. Do you manage a venue that combines daily operation with individual bookings? Then we combine both.

As an organiser you do not want to coordinate with four different parties at once. At Kilic Security you get one dedicated point of contact from intake onward: someone who walks the site with you, thinks along on flow at bars and stages, delivers the security section for your permit and runs the team lead on the day itself. We attend the pre-event coordination with the municipality, police, fire brigade and GHOR on your behalf and make sure everyone is on the same radio frequency on the day.

After the event you get an immediate verbal debrief and a written report within 24 hours. Useful for your municipal evaluation, for your insurer and as input for your next edition. If you run multiple editions or venues we keep one reporting line and one set of procedures across all of them.