Law enforcement responsibility for crowd control and site securitybelongs to the event director and the venue security coordinator. The AirBoss does not own that function. What you do own is knowing who does— the law enforcement POC name, their radio channel, and their responseprotocol, all confirmed before show day.

What scenarios require the Air Boss to actually coordinate with lawenforcement?

An unauthorized aircraft is the clearest example — you notify lawenforcement as part of your response. A perimeter breach or crowdincident also requires simultaneous action from you and the securitycoordinator. The key is that the communication path is already establishedbefore either event occurs.

What about the Security Plan itself?

Events under a CoW typically operate under a Security Plan coordinatedwith the airport authority. The organizer owns it. Your job is to understandits contents, not manage its execution. The elements that directly affectyou are access control zones, credentialing, flight-line sterile areaenforcement, and crowd management.

The Air Boss sterile area authority on the airfield has to integrate with theSecurity Plan.

They cannot conflict. Your authority over aerial sterile area discipline isclear — unauthorized aircraft, your call. But unauthorized personnel on theflight line: that’s security and law enforcement, not the Air Boss. Brief yourground crew that a security breach on the flight line requires simultaneousnotification to you and the security coordinator.

And the Air Boss does not physically remove unauthorized personnel.

Notify security, maintain your situational awareness, and let the peoplewith that authority handle it. Your job is the airspace — stay on it.