All Archive Titles articles – Page 292
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Archive TitlesTSI raises concerns over BSI Code of Practice
The British Standards Institution’s Code of Practice on contracted security consultancy services is likely to make the practice of good consultancy “difficult, if not impossible” claims The Security Institute
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Archive TitlesSecuritas officers praised for major drugs bust role
Securitas Security Services officers working on the company’s Stena Ports contract at Stranraer in Scotland have uncovered a 40 kg haul of cannabis resin with a street value of £200,000, leading to commendations from the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and Certificates of Merit.
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Archive TitlesSecurity on campus at The University of Reading
Facilities at The University of Reading are based around three campuses – White Knights, Bulmershe Court and London Road – all of them located within ten minutes of the town centre.
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Openness and the controlled case
SIR – The recent National Identity Fraud Prevention Awareness Campaign served to highlight the fact that fraud is undoubtedly one of the UK’s fastest-growing crimes.
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Towards a Royal Charter
The Security Institute (TSI) is project-managing its way towards Chartered status, with plans afoot to make a deputation to The Privy Council early in 2007. Peter French and Richard Flenley both Fellows of TSI explain what Chartered status would mean, and how the Institute might achieve its goal.
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Archive TitlesToo close for comfort
With members of the Association of Security Consultants having only just closed the doors on last month’s Consec Conference, Peter Speight offers a timely discourse on the prospect of licensing for practitioners in this field. Seemingly there are important lessons to be learned from the close protection operatives’ experience.
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Must the innocent continue to suffer?
SIR – WE read the Letter To The Editor from Detect International K9 Support Services’ UK operations director Robert Taylor with great interest (‘Dogs must be in safe hands at all times...’, SMT, October 2006, ).
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Manchester Uni signs counter-terrorism deal with Home Office
The University of Manchester IS to develop a host of new counter-terrorism technologies following the award of a multi-million pound research contract by the Home Office,
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Retail theft: a Darwinian Influence
With the British Retail Consortium’s annual Retail Crime Survey suggesting that acts of shop theft have risen by a massive 70% in the past 12 months, what can retail security managers and loss prevention specialists realistically do to reverse the trend? Douglas Greenwell offers his views as to why solutions ...
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Something we don’t know, perhaps?
SIR – I read the Letter To The Editor from Nick van der Bijl (‘The Wider Security Family’s at play’, SMT, October 2006,) with interest.
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Archive TitlesNHS: “Violence down, prosecutions on the up”
The numbers of NHS staff physically assaulted in England are down while prosecutions are rising, according to the latest statistics produced by the NHS Security Management Service
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Archive TitlesAn educational success
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama has invested in an access control solution to ensure that all staff and students remain safe
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Manager as empathiser
The Oxford Dictionary definition of the word ‘empathy’ reads: “The ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation”, with the verb ‘empathise’ meaning: “To be able to understand how someone else feels”. Here, Del Hunter explains how empathy ...
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Enforcement in The Real World
Much has been spoken and written of late in relation to the Security Industry Authority’s moves aimed at enforcing compliance with the Private Security Industry Act 2001. What has been the impact ‘on the ground’ in one of the UK’s largest cities? In the wake of Operation Seahog, Phil Speed ...
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Archive TitlesIn full support of One Voice
Sir – Licensing and regulation of the private security industry in many different areas of solutions delivery is accepted by all reputable contractors as being very welcome indeed.
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In search of greater pay
Globally, the chief security officer (CSO) is now managing many of the corporate enterprise’s risks, but the sad fact remains that these professionals are still paid far less than comparable function heads. At a time when security leads the business agenda, why is this so? Peter French discusses the current ...
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Archive TitlesSIA to regulate private security industry in Northern Ireland
The remit of the Security Industry Authority is to be extended to Northern Ireland, creating a single UK regulatory scheme for the private security industry.
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Archive TitlesJVC’s on the network...
JVC’s intuitive VR-N900U nine-channel Network Video Recorder incorporates Milestone Systems’ XProtect software as standard