Law enforcement 'into the home stretch' of planning 2025 NFL Draft security
Jan 16, 2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) - The Green Bay Police Department and partnering agencies are wrapping up their blueprint for what 2025 NFL Draft security will look like.
"We have already most of the planning, the basic planning for the event done. And it’s a comprehensive security plan," Green Bay Police Chief Chris Davis said. "We’ve been working on this for about a year at this point, so we’re glad we’re getting into the home stretch."
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Chief Davis and Captain Ben Allen joined Local 5's Jade Henschel for a community update Thursday, explaining that draft security is a multi-jurisdictional effort.
"The event itself takes place in three different policing jurisdictions, so we have a leadership group formed with the sheriff, the chief in Ashwaubenon and the fire chief," Chief Davis said. "This will be big enough to ask for help from other agencies around Wisconsin."
With 300,000 people expected to descend on Titletown for the draft, nearly triple the population of the city, Davis emphasized that a heavy law enforcement presence would be seen throughout the week of the draft.
"There will be very visible elements of that plan, our police officers and police officers from around the region," Davis said. "We work very closely with NFL security which does a lot of boots-on-the-ground work at the event itself."
Capt. Allen said he has been in close contact with those living in the neighborhoods surrounding Lambeau Field, especially in discussing traffic concerns.
"A lot of communication with the neighborhood associations around that footprint area, so that’s been a really big piece of what our planning is," Allen said. "Traffic patterns and road closures are a big piece of this event, and those will be communicated by any means possible from social media to phone apps for those that attend the event."
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The next few months will bring more specific details about traffic impacts and the transformation that Titletown will undergo.
"When that’s finalized we certainly will share those things," Allen said. "It’s a familiar space to us, so that helps in this planning portion of it. However, with gamedays, we know when people are going to arrive and when they’re going to leave. In an event like this, people come throughout the day."