Pats Security Personnel Question

A native of Derby in the United Kingdom, Mark joined the Patriots organization at the end of the 2000 season following a successful two years working with the Sydney Olympic Organization. His responsibilities include all aspects of game day security and guest services, with the goal of giving visitors to Gillette Stadium a world-class experience.

After his schooling, Mark joined the British Army where he served 16 years, being awarded the British Empire Medal in HM Queen Elizabeth II 1987 Birthday Honors List. In 1990 he started his crowd management and security career at the famous Wembley Stadium complex in London, managing hundreds of events in the arena, conference center and stadium before leaving for Sydney, Australia in 1998.

Mark is presently studying for a Masters degree with Leicester University UK.

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PatsWickedPissah said:

Here he is Google images. A Limey!

http://uktiboston.tumblr.com/page/4

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Danger Zone said:

If this is the guy you are referring to Smessy



(If you look you can see the camera man's triax cord goes taunt and is probably what really pulled him off his feet, not the bodyguard)


Chief Operating Officer of TeamOps Security (as of 2010 at least) Mark Briggs

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...nt-between-pats-security-chief-nbc-cameraman/



Quoted from an archived snapshot.
http://web.archive.org/web/20091121153115/http://www.patriots.com/team/index.cfm?ac=mgersexecsbio&bio=31002

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We hired Mark in 2000. He joined us in January of ’01. And we were building Gillette, we knew we really needed to upgrade our security here. A gentleman who worked with us for over a decade as an outside consult, a guy named Mike Loin, just came back from the Sydney Olympics said, ‘I met a guy over there, Mark Briggs, British Special Forces, ran Wembley. He’s the right guy to run a venue in today’s world.’ 9/11 happened right after and we’re really thankful we had Mark. And Mark joined us right after the Sydney Olympics in the beginning of ’01.

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FirstAndGoal said:

"Special forces" does not mean SAS. SAS is a set of units within the Special operations forces. He wasn't part of the Special Forces either. Kraft mis-spoke since he probably got most of his military information from watching Rambo 1 trough 1000.

Mark was part of the Coldstream Guards.

It's a common mistake by non-military people but he spent 16 years as one of those guys in the big tall black hats and red uniforms. It's more like a "special assignment" unit. They are the non-responsive guards that tourists think of when you say British guards.

We have them too. For instance, the Marines who guard the White House and flank the President are on special assignment. You have to have the right height, look, and temperament to be assigned. Every US branch has them. I had a friend who was a White House Marine. For the US, it's a temporary assignment. For the British, it can be a career.

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Fencer said:

Coincidentally, I checked Wikipedia and so on very recently about the Changing of the Guard, etc. To my surprise, it isn't ALWAYS the Coldstream Guards who guard Buckingham Palace; rather, the job is rotated among several regiments.

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