Interpol official for pvt sector role at mega-sporting events

With security threats on the rise, a top Interpol official today said the private sector must also play a strong role in protecting mega sporting events like the football World Cup.
"International sporting events present police and security challenges for every host country, (as) such events can attract a range of threats from disorder on one hand, violence to cyber attacks to terrorists attacks on the other," Jurgen Stock, the Secretary General of Interpol, told reporters here.
Stock was speaking on the sidelines the First Major Event Safety and Security Conference, jointly organised by Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), the local organising body for FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and Interpol.

The Qatar will be the hosting the first ever World Cup to take place in the middle east and only the second in Asia after the 2002 edition was co-hosted by South Korea and Japan.
"We also remember hooliganism during Euro 2016, there were cyber crime incidents during the Rio Olympics. So its a spectrum of threats. And these threats are unfortunately increasing, its getting more international, its getting more complex and that requires more than ever that law enforcement is cooperating, but not just law enforcement, we have to build bridges with the private sector, the private sector must also play a strong role in protecting these kind of (big sporting) events," Stock said.

"We know that many (cyber) attacks are not reported to police for whatever reasons and its only a small potion that is reported to police. We have to encourage private sector actors to report incidents to the police, the official added.
Quizzed whether conducting the FIFA 2022 was difficult in terms of security, Stock quipped, "Thats the question for national authorities and not (for) Interpol.