A lockdown at an Adelaide shopping centre was the first test since the Bondi Junction attack on the response to large-scale public threats. But experts say more could be done within the private security sector.
Three weeks ago, a major Adelaide shopping centre was plunged into lockdown after an alleged armed brawl.South Australian Police is conducting a review into its response to the Westfield Marion incident, but has previously said it was 'comfortable' with how the incident was handled.
Little was publicly known about the details, until police held a press conference about two hours after they were first called to the scene.Melbourne-based security consultant Tim Wood said confusion, uncertainty, and misinformation were often the reality in scenarios such as the lockdown at Westfield Marion."Human nature and behaviours can be quite random in a heightened situation."
"When your body is in stress, it will do what it remembers, what it is trained, what it is prepared to do, and so training is a big piece of that, meaning that you need to practice that through exercises and understanding how we would react in those circumstances."A Westfield shopping centre in southern Adelaide has been forced into lockdown and shoppers evacuated, following reports of a brawl between armed men.
Mr Wood said there had "definitely been progression in the crowded places space" but believed more work needed to be done "particularly around the labour force".
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