All Archive Titles articles – Page 959
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Security on the Web
Each month, SMT surfs the World Wide Web to find end users security sites that are interesting, informative and up-to-date
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Archive TitlesSelling retail short
Despite falling losses in the wake of massive spends on crime prevention measures by retailers, there remains a bedrock of retail crime (worth a massive £1.7 billion in 2002) that demands the attention of Home Office and police decision-makers alike. However, as Ian Drury reveals in this review of the ...
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Policing our Ports
SIR – AS I HAVE AN INTEREST IN POLICING BY non-Home Office police forces, I thought your Case Study article ‘Vintage Port’ (SMT, July 2003, pp22-27) was an extremely useful discourse on the topic, providing lots of salient background information that would otherwise be extremely hard to find.Ultimately, I think ...
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VirusEye: The MessageLabs Update
Alex Shipp, senior anti-virus technologist at MessageLabs, keeps IT security managers up-to-date with all the latest virus news
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Archive TitlesIntroducing ManTech
When the Working Time Directive and industry regulation begin to bite deep, the cost of manpower provision will rise for end users. As Brian Sims argues, though, there'll always be a need for manned guarding – except that now it will have to be of a much higher quality and, ...
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Archive TitlesHealthier options
Security and counter fraud strategies within the NHS have been subject to fundamental review – the aim being to ramp up standards and introduce formal security management training courses. Jim Gee outlines why this overhaul is necessary.
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Archive TitlesTaking a lead by going wireless – that’s JVC
CCTVNetworked surveillanceSheffield City Council’s recent investment in a state-of-the-art CCTV network to be transmitted over wireless broadband is fuelled by the desire to monitor the city’s main transport depot, previously a vandalism and crime ‘hot spot’.The entire system has been designed and installed by Premlink. Five JVC v-network cameras – ...
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NASDU and the NTIPDU: Let's move forward... together
SIR – As the founder AND outgoing chairman of the National Association of Security Dog Users (NASDU), and instigator of security dog education and training in the UK, I'd like to comment on the article by Ian Green in the June edition of SMT ('NTIPDU: a new era for dog ...
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Reliance Security and SMT focus on regulation
This month, leading security contractor Reliance Security Services has joined forces with Security Management Today (SMT) to conduct an in-depth survey on the issues surrounding regulation and licensing, and the immediate future direction of the industry.Reliance has devised a highly detailed questionnaire – inserted into this month's edition of SMT, ...
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Archive TitlesAre you still sitting on the fence?
With crime against commercial and industrial properties an ever-increasing problem, Steve Buckley of Gallagher Security asks why many end users remain hesitant about properly securing their business premises by deploying perimeter protection systems.
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Archive TitlesI Spy with my little eye...
Access controlBPT Security Systems (UK) has supplied the digital video door entry system for the newly-redeveloped Century House, the former MI6 hq in south London that’s now known as Perspective.The 22-storey structure has been rebuilt to the tune of £25 million such that it now contains 180 apartments and 13 ...
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Archive TitlesThe 'extended police family': myth or reality?
How far will the Government and the 43 police forces in England and Wales be prepared to take Home Secretary David Blunkett's idea of the 'extended police family'? Douglas Greenwell examines the legislation that's already in place to support Blunkett's theories, the success achieved to date by the introduction of ...
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Good job done, good rates please!
SIR – WITH REFERENCE TO IAN GREEN’S Briefing Paper on the National Training Inspectorate for Professional Dog Users (‘NTIPDU: a new era for dog training’, SMT, June 2003, p55), what he says there is all very well but when are we going to start charging proper rates for the ...
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Archive TitlesDolphin keeps patrollers in touch
The Dolphin national Networked Radio Service is keeping the London Borough of Wandsworth's Street Patrollers in touch as they go about their community duties in support of the Metropolitan and Parks Police Forces.London's Street Patrollers in Tooting and the Clapham Junction area represent a new initiative by the ...
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Archive TitlesJohn Wright, managing director, Trident Safeguards
Terry O'Neil continues Security Management Today's ongoing series of interviews with prominent private sector security professionals by chatting with John Wright – the managing director of City-based guarding concern Trident Safeguards – about the company's recent buy-out and industry regulation.
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Stella Darby-Rowles: an obituary
“The tragic death of Stella Darby-Rowles on Wednesday 6 August has left her many friends and industry colleagues stunned and deeply saddened,” writes Mike Bluestone (managing director of the BSB Group).“I had the very great privilege of witnessing at first hand Stella’s professionalism and love of her job as operations ...
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Archive TitlesControl over networked security
Intruder International has provided a fully-integrated IP-based security system for TAG Aviation's facilities at the business traveller-centric Farnborough Airport
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Cometh the hour...
When can we expect the current Government to take a firm stance on the Working Time Directive? After what seems like a lifetime's worth of deliberation and procrastination, the UK's private security companies are still in the dark pending a review of the regulations due to take place this October.What ...
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Guarding Code of Conduct ratified
Employer and employee organisations representing the European private security industry have agreed on a Code of Conduct with the European Commission for all security operatives
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Archive TitlesLooking for clues
University research laboratories offer rich pickings for the thief in search of anything from high tech equipment through to dangerous or controlled substances. With this in mind, security professionals at the University of Dundee have opted for a state-of-the-art systems solution to protect their own Medical School.