Road Safety for Sporting Events
About NEG Wales
National Escort Group - Wales is a non-profit organisation based in Wales, UK whose primary aim is to provide 'escort' safety cover for sports events that utilise public roads.
NEG Wales presently comprises of 30 members who provide both static marshalling support and 'rolling' support on motorcycles. Our Motorcycle Safety Officers (MSO's) are all experienced and highly trained riders who have undergone our stringent training programme and become accredited members of the group. Likewise our Static Safety Officers (SSO's) have undergone an intensive training programme and form an important part of the service we provide.
We are available to cover almost all sporting events that require competitors/individuals to use or cross public roads. Please see the 'our services' section of our web site to learn more about the events we cover,
National Escort Group Wales - History
The National Escort Group was formed by request of UK sport and British Cycling. A model was built that was approved by Association Of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) , ROSPA, and the HSE to ensure the safety of competitors and general public when events are used an the highway. The "Welsh National Escort Group" (WNEG) was then officially formed in 2005, during which time we had in excess of 12 motorcycle marshals, and WNEG worked very closely with Welsh Cycling and British Cycling and NEG to promote divisions.
January 1st 2007 saw the rebranding of WNEG to "NEG Wales",
We are committed to developing our team of volunteers and have also renamed them to Safety Officers. We've also included Static Safety Officers in 2007. We are constantly training our people and most have undergone advanced first aid tuition and we are committed to on-going training and development through the year.