He 70 percent of Spaniards consider football stadiums to be unsafe

He 70% of Spaniards consider that security in football stadiums is bad or very bad, according to the ‘Citizen Security Study 2012’ from security solutions provider ADT, which also shows that the 40,6% Of those attending football events, the main measure to be adopted to alleviate this scourge is the installation of video surveillance cameras and closed circuit television..

ADT has revealed the results of his 'Citizen Security Study 2012', in which it analyzes citizen perception of security and antisocial behavior of Spaniards at a general level and in different environments such as transportation infrastructures., leisure venues and mass attendance events. For the preparation of the study, were made 2.081 online interviews with Spaniards from among 18 y 65 years. The confidence level is 95,5 percent and the margin of error of the 2,17 percent.

According to this study, he 70 percent of Spaniards consider that security in football stadiums is bad or very bad. In this sense, The perceived insecurity in these places is the greatest of all those analyzed (public places, of transport, leisure, tourist areas or massive events of any kind), followed by that perceived in public parks and gardens (28,7 percent). This perception of insecurity in football events is also placed above that of any other sporting event., like the formula 1 (33,3 percent), the bulls (32,8 percent), basketball (32 percent) or tennis (27,2 percent).

This figure has worsened since 2009, since the number of Spaniards who believe that stadiums are unsafe has increased by 16 percent. Among them, Those who consider them most insecure are Andalusians and Valencians. Madrid and Catalans, instead, They have the least negative perception of all. Besides, The study reveals that a portion of Spaniards believe that antisocial behavior occurs on soccer fields.. Specifically, he 57 percent of those surveyed identify that the worst thing is verbal violence, followed by physical violence (42 percent) and acts of vandalism and hooliganism (38,4 percent).

Measures to improve security in stadiums

The document also details that Spaniards have the feeling that these behaviors have gotten worse compared to 2009, especially in relation to physical violence” (25,2 percent in 2009) o al vandalism (32,6 percent in 2009). For this reason, attendees at massive events, not only footballers, They are committed to increasing security personnel (69 percent) as the main security measure, followed by the installation of video surveillance cameras and closed circuit television (40,6 percent) and improving access controls (almost the 35 percent).