All Archive Titles articles – Page 591
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IP: the conflict of interest
In today’s world, telephony, security and site control services may all be transmitted, monitored and integrated over a common environment.
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Archive TitlesSIA enforcement and compliance: tangible insurance for end users
In the final part of Security Management Today’s exclusive interview with Andy Drane, Brian Sims talks to the Security Industry Authority’s (SIA) deputy chief executive about door supervisor regulation, ongoing plans for the Approved Contractor Scheme – including a joint statement issued by the SIA and the Association of British ...
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Archive TitlesChilds resigns from JSIC
Richard Childs has resigned as chief executive and company secretary of the Joint Security Industry Council (JSIC).
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Ringing the changes
With EN 50131-1 soon to make a major impact on the intruder alarms sector, the British Security Industry Association is organising a number of seminars to inform intruder alarm installers, manufacturers and end users about the standard, its format and the likely effects of its introduction. “The industry and its ...
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Archive TitlesSITO and Kennedy Scott promote careers for women in security
The Security Industry Training Organisation (SITO) has joined forces with training and placement specialist Kennedy Scott to encourage women to seek careers in the security industry.
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Archive TitlesCampus life on the edge
The management team at Napier University is looking to improve security across all campuses with a networked access control system
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Archive TitlesBSIA: forging overseas links
For a number of years, the BSIA has focused a great deal of energy on enhancing the British security industry’s presence abroad.
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The BSIA... and its relevance in a post-ACS world
SIR – Jonathan Levine porteays A balanced and perceptive view of the immediate and mid-term future for guarding (‘SIA licensing and regulation: preparing for March 2006’, Guarding Watch, SMT, May 2005, pp93-94).
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They’re lining up in Bristol!
The facilities team at Bristol International Airport has just completed a project to upgrade the site’s perimeter protection regime thanks to 2.5 miles of high security fencing supplied and installed by Procter Fencing Systems.
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Archive TitlesBlinded by the light
From next year, new anti-pollution laws come into effect which will impact on end users’ security lighting and intruder alarm installations. Shaun Cutler explains why security specifiers ought to be aware of issues concerning light pollution, and takes a closer look at the detail contained within the Clean Neighbourhoods and ...
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Archive TitlesThe Big Issue
Diversity and VERSATILITY are characteristics that physical security equipment certainly has to offer end users, writes Martin Williams.
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Whats your belief system?
Some security managers I’ve met over the years have been so paralysed by fear during a job interview that they become physically sick, or their minds go blank and the words dry up.
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Archive TitlesEnforcement is beginning to take shape
Andy Drane explains that pubs and clubs have received additional police and local authority attention of late.
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Archive TitlesFootball authorities bid to sidestep regulation
Rumours that the Football Licensing Authority is seeking exemptions from SIA regulation are “causing serious concern”
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Archive TitlesASIS set for “rigorous review” of certification
ASIS International is to undertake a full review of its certification programme by applying for accreditation from ISO and the IEC
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Bulk application procedures for licensing
In the May edition of SMT, first security (Guards) managing director Jonathan Levine bemoaned the lack of a bulk applications procedure (‘SIA regulation and licensing: preparing for March 2006’, Guarding Watch, pp93-94).
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PCSOs: are they really the answer?
Sir – As both an experienced security manager and former police officer, I feel that I’m as appropriately qualified as just about anyone else to offer a view on the extended police family.
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Door staff: “all-too-often undervalued”
The earliest region to be TARGETED WAS THAT OF HAMPSHIRE and the Isle of Wight, where the SIA ran its pilot programme for door staff. Surprisingly, when the Authority compared an existing city database against its own criminality criteria, there was only a 10% failure rate among those ...
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Privacy isn’t a problem at all
Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions Division has announced that it is taking the company’s FCB colour block dome cameras “to a new level of integration” by providing end users with unmatched functionality and feature options thanks to the addition of the Series C range.
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It’s not all about the larger contractors...
If – as BSIA chief executive David Dickinson suggests – it comes to pass that the 2,500 security companies are whittled down to around the 200 mark or less, that represents a massive shake-up of the status quo.