2011년 8월 27일부터 9월 4일까지 9일간 대구에서는 202개국 6천여명의 선수단이 참여한 가운데 ‘2011 세계육상선수권 대회’가 열렸다. 이번 대회기간 전 남북간의 긴장감, 오사마 빈 라덴 사후의 국제정세의 변화 등의 국내외 상황 속에서 우려했던 단 한건의 테러나 안전사고도 발생하지 않았다.
세계육상선수권대회와 같은 국제행사는 테러리스트들의 입장에서는 그 선전효과 측면에서 매우 좋은 기회이며, 테러 대상 또한 특정인으로 한정하지 않아도 된다. 그리고 많은 사람들이 한 장소에 모이는 경기장이나 부대시설, 숙박시설 등은 대부분 언론매체 등을 통해 단시간에 전 세계적으로 알려진다. 따라서 테러단체의 주요 표적이 될 가능성이 높다. 따라서 이 행사의 안전대책은 그 어느 요소보다 중요한 것이다.
2011 대구세계육상선수권 대회 이전까지의 국제행사들은 주로 경찰이나 군 등 관주도로 이루어져왔다. 그러나 이번 대회부터는 대회조직위에서 경찰 등 안전유관기관들의 지원을 받으면서 민간경비원과 안전자원봉사자들을 활용하여 선수촌이나 대구 스타디움의 출입구 및 VIP 구역의 경비를 맡아 안전 업무를 수행하였다.
이 연구에서는 2011 대구세계육상선수권 대회의 안전을 담당했던 한 축인 민간경비에 종사한 인력을 대상으로 면접조사를 실시한 결과를 중심으로 인력운용상 문제점과 향후 발전을 위한 대안을 제시하였다.
이와 같은 안전경비 모델은 미국이나 영국, 일본 등에서는 이미 보편화된 추세로서 이번 대회에서 유연하고 친절한 경비 서비스를 선보여 시민들과 외국인들로부터 많은 호응을 얻었다. 이와 같이 공공부문과 민간 부분의 적절한 업무분담과 조화를 통한 안전 시스템은 이번 대회의 가장 큰 수확 중 하나로 평가된다.
The international sports event could be defined as "the event hosted at regular or odd intervals by an international sports institution or athletics specialist body of the hosting country, where the sports delegations from more than 2 countries have bona-fide competitions and build their inter-comradeships, followed by additional different cultural events to be attended or watched by spectators".
There are distinctive features in the international sports event that separate it from other events. First, it involves a large number of unspecified crowd, which is unique to the international sports where tens of thousands of people gather in the limited space, the playing field, although a mass of public can be found also in a political campaign or religious gathering and other seasonal festivals. Second, brings together the cheering brigades, tourists, press corps, VIPs, etc. The international sports event of modern world is likely more of an economic factor where people try to exploit its economic opportunities and the hosting country tries its best to gain the financial benefits by attracting more tourists and cheering brigades. In other words, what determines whether the event was a success or failure is not the performance of the players but the economic gains from the event. Third, in the international sports event, a comprehensive safety measures is emerging for the security department because the players' villages are synchronize with the sports fields, which spreads the safeguard zones and different games are concurrent in different places. Fourth, there are different many countries participating. Therefore, it is highly expected that tensions may arise not only between the competing squads and cheering parties from those nations confronted each other by their own political, religious, cultural and idealogical philosophies, etc. - also inside the hosting nation The International Sports Event may not only turn out a failure if a terror or other safety accident occurs, but also produce a destruction of lives, assets and facilities, eventually dropping the trust toward the hosting nation, which means the safety measures should be the top priority.
Korea is one of the strongest allies of the United States and it also has a lot of American-related facilities. Actually, the possibility of terrorism in Korea and the threat of international terrorist organizations are gradually increasing as well. Especially, international major sports events is the largest event related events with politics, economy, culture, and such large-scale events should be a comprehensive counter-plans in the light of safety check for the location of a hazard and safety check of facilities in and out, attendance on athlete and visitor and escort of VIPs.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems and to suggest development measures on the operating system of security personnel for the success of 2011 World Championships held in Daegu which is one of the top three sports event.
Main responsible bodies for security are organization committee of IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011, private security companies, police, voluntary service workers(safety field), Daegu City, and fire fighting organization. Therefore, mutual cooperation system should be established among the organizations for the effective execution of security matters.
Especially, the central security body of this championships is a private security and police provided a support activity. Therefore, private security companies performed the missions such as protection of Daegu Stadium, athlete's village, headquarter hotel and general meeting place from the trespass of dangerous people, access control to important area and order maintenance on the basis of their own know-how.
Korea is one of the countries which have experiences in hosting different large-scale international events including sports. It is also preparing for the Asian Game in Incheon Metropolitan City in 2014, an event the world is watching. It should not be the government alone who will be arranging this kind of big event, but every people might have to do something to minimize any probable damages on the assumption that they can be the victim of terrorism, at any moment and any place.
