Crest Planning, event safety specialist, has signed a new contract with Luton Borough Council following the success of its incident management system, Halo, at Luton International Carnival.
Halo will be used at various Luton events including the International Carnival and VE Day Celebrations which will take place on 8 May and the Luton mela, which will welcome 40,000 guests across two days in August.
Halo will also be used in an operational sense for day-to-day use with the borough’s public protection teams, including emergency planning, parking, licencing and neighbourhood enforcement.
Pritesh Mistry, civil protection and business community manager, Luton Borough Council, said: “We bought Halo after seeing it in action at Luton International Carnival 2019 and at the Ashes Test match at Edgbaston last summer. We were really impressed with the various features of Halo, especially the way that all aspects of an event or incident are logged, ready for reporting post-event.
Mistry added: “We also liked the fact that we can restrict what different users can see, so that the overall picture can be maintained by the control room, and individual users are not bombarded with constant information.”
Wayne Humberstone, operations director, Crest Plannings, commented: “We built our system from the ground up to be exceptionally versatile and robust. This allows Luton Council to deploy Halo in response to natural disasters like floods, to co-ordinate a full multi-agency response and set up relief centres. Halo can support their lone workers as they patrol the streets of Luton keeping them clean and safe.
Humberstone concluded that Halo will provide its functions at events across Luton, allowing the public access to a system which aims to keep them safe. He added that “Halo is a multi-functional, multi-agency, multi-award-winning system like no other on the market and with neighbouring authorities also on the system it will create some brilliant opportunities for cross-border, partnership working.”
