England and Wales are schedule to battle it out in a Pool A clash tomorrow night in the quest of the Rugby World Cup. This match pitying two nations in the same kingdom will see royals Prince Williams who is vice-patron of the Welsh Rugby Union and Harry who is honorary president of England Rugby 2015 in attendance.
Security has been tight in the nation and experts have claimed that the undetected sneaking of two base jumpers to the stadium, posed a security weakness as they claimed that terrorist can follow suit and do the same.
According to George McKillop, the chief executive of Haymarket Risk management, risk and security consultants in the City of London the sporting event centers should initiate vigilance in attempt to keep terror acts away. He claims that crowded places with over 80,000 the capacity of Twickenham attracts interests from terrorists who can gain a worldwide publicity if anything bad happens in such places.
He added that the way these base jumpers and cameramen gained access to the stadium undetected posses a great risk to the crowd and security forces needs to up their game in prevention of any uncouth acts.
The negligibility of the guards is what should be checked mostly as it was claimed that when former Paratrooper Jamie, 45-year-old Darren, the MD of a chemical company, and cameraman Mauricio Gris dressed in security uniforms and jumped over a fence at the ground, the guards were busy enjoying tea while facebooking on their mobile phones. Another guard spotted the three guys but didn’t bother taking the matter seriously.
The happenings prompted the Rugby Football Union who is official owners of the Twickenham stadium initiate an investigation accepting that the security breach was a huge slip to have taken place in such a moment when the nation is hosting the Rugby World Cup event.
The Twickenham Stadium is playing host to several group stage matches and will also be privileged to host both semi final games as well as the Finals.
Nonetheless, the organizers of the Rugby World Cup have claimed that it would not accept the incorporation of scanners similar to those at the airport. These scanners were once used during the 2012 Olympic Games when terror threat was significant. They have advocated for the steward checking the fans as well as extensive policing.
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