All Archive Titles articles – Page 911
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Archive TitlesHidden depths, hidden extras
With the threat from terrorist organisations increasing, security managers need to start thinking about a first line of defence against weapons, explosives or even chemicals that could be smuggled onto their company's premises. Alex Chambers reviews current thinking on the use of mail, package, baggage and visitor screening systems.
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Observer report demonised poor
Readers will have seen Amelia Hill's article – "Council estate decline spawns new underclass" – in the Observer on 30 November. Most will share my dismay to see a traditionally progressive newspaper reinforcing negative stereotypes of social housing and demonising the poor. The article wilfully misrepresents the purpose of stock ...
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To provide decent homes, we need decent neighbourhoods
At last, Housing is being driven up the political agenda. Chancellor Gordon Brown knows how important it is to the wider economy, and there is a lot of thought going into boosting supply, especially in affordable housing.
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Private planning needed for the security industry's 'new dawn'
With the 'extended police family' beginning to take shape, we believe that private sector security companies must begin to display an inherent self confidence and enthusiasm for the new dawn, laying down plans that clearly set out why the industry will be as good as – if not ...
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Archive TitlesPartners in crime
The government is forcing housing providers to work with the police to fight antisocial behaviour. In the first of a two-part look at what this means, Saba Salman reports on the power struggles and confusion that stymie many attempts to work together and on page 28, asks Metropolitan Police ...
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Isle of Wight's swamped council hands out tents to homeless
Isle of Wight council has encouraged homeless people to buy tents after applications from young homeless people tripled in the past six months.
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Sandwell picks Riverside for UK's first new-build PFI council housing
Plans to build the UK's first council housing scheme under the private finance initiative are nearing completion.
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Consulting for peace of mind
There are several important legislative documents currently in force or on the immediate horizon whose contents must be thoroughly scrutinised and acted upon by UK security managers – not least the Working Time Regulations, the Code of Practice on Monitoring at Work and the Information and Consultation Regulations. We offer ...
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Archive TitlesReady for collection?
While a selection of SMT's readers may find activities including the manufacture of arms and drug testing on animals totally abhorrent, both are legitimate business strands with which companies may be involved. However, they're also sectors that attract protest groups. How might in-house managers whose organisations are at the forefront ...
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How To … collect recyclable waste from flats
David Janner-Klausner on the ways councils are getting round a tricky recycling problem
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Archive TitlesWatchdog opens Control Centre
Molly Meacher – chairman of the Security Industry Authority – has formally opened The Security Watchdog's new Control Centre in Putney, which is designed specifically for small and medium-sized guarding companies.
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Centralising user services
Should security companies servicing clients in the private sector operate a branch network, or instead choose a centralised support service? Which is better for the client base the company serves? In delivering a truly holistic security package for VSG Security's customers, Bill Muskin explains why he's yet to be convinced ...
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Archive TitlesIgnore CBR threats at your peril!
Sir – With Government agencies warning that a terrorist CBR (Chemical, Biological or Radiological) event is a matter of 'when' rather than 'if' it happens, risk managers and property owners might want to review their contingency plans – much as Chris Bowes alluded to in 'Bomb shell' (SMT, November 2003, ...
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Will Europe ever catch the US?
While it's not the job of the specifier to expose his client to untried technology without tangible benefits, we believe that the tendency to 'play it safe' with a battle-tested specification restricts the progress of the industry as a whole. Is our somewhat conservative attitude to risk the sole reason ...
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Archive TitlesHello campus
Hello campus: Shaftesbury Housing Group has started work on a £7m student housing project in London. The 212-room scheme will be built by subsidiary Shaftesbury Student Housing for City University and will be completed in September. The construction firm is Rok Llewellyn, the architect is Haworth Tompkins. Shaftesbury is also ...
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Archive TitlesSwiss Re calls on First Security
First Security (Guards) has won the highly prestigious security contract at 30 St Mary Axe, the Foster and Partners-designed UK Head Office of the Swiss Re insurance company – one of the most distinctive buildings to be constructed worldwide over the past decade and already an icon in the City.When ...
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MITIE Group completes Executive buy-out deal
Following on from its recent acquisition of guarding contractor Trident Safeguards ('MITIE takes over at Trident', News Update, SMT, August 2003, p7), the MITIE Group has now bought out Executive Holdings Ltd – the contract security and cleaning concern – in a deal said to be worth £10 million.
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Archive TitlesBSIA guarding standard targets service delivery improvements
The Manned Security Services Section of the British Security Industry Association has issued a new standard – 'Towards the Future' – aimed at improving the quality of service provision
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Archive TitlesBSIA teams up with North West Police to clamp down on CiT crime
For the first time, police forces across the North West Region are teaming up and working alongside the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) to launch a major initiative aimed at cracking down on Cash-in-Transit (CiT) robberies. Officers from Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales Police will be looking ...
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Police Federation rejects 'Bobbies-for-Hire' plans
Members of the Police Federation have attacked David Blunkett's plans to allow community groups to hire their own beat police officers