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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Reward the Day One Boys, if you please
SIR – As one of the Top 20 security companies in the UK, the AFC Group is 100% supportive of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and its aim of ensuring that the security industry as a whole is compliant with the Private Security Industry Act 2001.
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Archive TitlesThe Big Issue
Connoisseurs of pop music may recall China Crisis, a Liverpool band that enlightened us with hits including ‘Wishful Thinking’. Having read the results of research commissioned by the BSIA on the Chinese market, perhaps the group to which I refer should have been renamed China Opportunity, writes Chris Pinder.
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Big Brother: here to stay
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas stirred more than a little controversy last month when suggesting fears that the UK would “sleep walk into a Surveillance Society” have now become reality.
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The main point is being missed!
SIR – The security industry in this country has long-needed someone (or some organisation) to grab it by the scruff of the neck and pull it away from the stereotype of its managerial ‘practitioners’ being overweight, retired police officers who spend their days drinking tea and mulling over the clues ...
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Archive TitlesThe Bargain Bin Failures
The UK’s National Audit Office has revealed that the National Programme for IT – the National Health Service’s multi-billion pound ‘mega’ IT project – is not only years behind schedule but also massively over budget. Here, Brendan Loughrey looks at why corporate IT projects are prone to such problems, and ...
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Archive TitlesTodd Research: going back to basix for end users
Todd Research – one of the UK’s foremost developers of X-ray screening systems for use in Post Rooms – has now developed an entry-level range of equipment for company’s with smaller budgets.
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Archive TitlesSecurity Management Today wins Skills for Security Special Award
Security Management Today’s Editor Brian Sims received the 2006 Skills for Security Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Security Business Sector following the organisation’s National Conference, held this year at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.
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HLM Architects hires Karl Ruddle
Also: Law firm Pinsent Masons promotes construction lawyers, and Elmondstone creates seven jobs
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Analytics under surveillance...
Content analytics is consistently being touted as The Next Big Thing in video surveillance, but is the hype going to match reality? In the first of a short series, Oliver Vellacott reviews the current state-of-play before managing end user expectations in relation to what they are about to receive.
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Excellence must be upheld at all costs
SIR – First of all, may I add my own voice to those congratulating you and everyone else on the Security Team at CMP Information for the quite splendid event that was The Security Excellence Awards 2006.