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Archive TitlesFrontline NHS Trust hospital staff supported by OCS Resolution
OCS Resolution Security is IMPLEMENTING THE NHS SECURITY Management Service strategy throughout Rotherham General Hospital NHS Trust. The strategy means that all staff coming into contact with patients or members of the public will have to undergo conflict resolution training by March 2008.
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Archive TitlesFour Issues, One Voice
Security Management Today (SMT) and Infologue.com - the specialist web site dedicated to the security guarding sector - have joined forces in launching four editorial campaign strands for 2006. Brian Sims and Bobby Logue explain why the licensing of in-house operatives, equal representation (on the SIA Board), fair charging ...
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Where next for The SMT Forum?
SIR - I much enjoyed The SMT forum held at Total Workplace Management last October, and was reminded of it when I read Ruben Wegman's article in your February edition (‘Generation game',).
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Archive TitlesAn eye on procedure
The management of a CCTV Control Room is bound up in much legislation. Clear instruction is vital for all members of staff, who themselves must be properly vetted and trained in specific skills - including both proactive and reactive monitoring. Brian Sims continues Security Management Today's in-depth review of The ...
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Archive TitlesEnforcing the law
The 20 March deadline day for security officer licensing has come and gone, so what is the current state of play with regard to regulation? Is it visibly altering the private security industry's mindset and landscape, and what is going to happen to those companies flouting the law? Brian Sims ...
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Archive TitlesDealing with Malpractice
Many companies are reluctant to pursue criminal, commercial or civil litigation when they suddenly find themselves confronted by a ‘difficult situation', ranging from allegations of various forms of malpractice through to more overt crimes including theft and fraud. For organisations that do, David Gill explains why hiring-in the necessary expertise ...
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Archive TitlesSledgehammer to crack a nut?
SIR - As a one-time participant in - and now an interested if detached observer of - the security guarding sector, I have no vested interest to protect, no axes to grind and no hidden agendas to pursue. However, I do have some fundamental questions to ask, and several opinions ...
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Maybe it's ‘A matter of correction'?
SIR - Having read through Paul Dobson's article in your December 2005 edition (‘A matter of perception?', ), I was quite taken aback by what I believe to be a number of misleading and factually incorrect statements contained in what is a surprisingly biased feature on the merits of electro-hydraulic ...
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Education... In continuum
Engineering. Architecture. Accountancy. The Law. Medicine... For some considerable time, these and a host of other established professions have instigated - and then continued to enforce - a requirement that those practitioners engaged in their sector absolutely must demonstrate continual learning. In some cases, the merest hint of failure to ...
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Archive TitlesRainbow takes to the Dock comp
RAINBOW CCTV'S 8.5-85 MM VARIFOCAL LENSES have been installed for long-range observations at Marine Terminals in the Port of Dublin. The units are being used at the ‘lift on/lift off' container section of the docks complex at Dublin Bay, assisting the client - Marine Terminals Limited - to comply ...
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Archive TitlesSecurity Institute commitment
Chairman Bill Wyllie reiterated The Security Institute's determination to achieve Chartered status "in the medium-term" at the professional body's recent Annual General Meeting. Brian Sims reports from the London Marriott Hotel
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Archive TitlesJVC opens up nine new channels
JVC has launched the versatile VR-509E DVR, which can record in two modes. In the first mode it is able to record to a DVD in a proprietary format. In the second mode, the system may be programmed to record to domestic video format which then enables playback on any ...
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Biometrics don't stop the forgers
SIR - Following the Governemts's acceptance of the House of Lords' opposition to any plans to make national ID cards compulsory, we are now a step closer towards ID cards incorporating biometrics. They are designed to prevent forgery, but biometrics alone cannot do so.
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Archive TitlesThe Big Issue
The wider policing family is once more under the spotlight following a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled ‘Changing The Guards', writes Mick Lee. The programme included a Case Study on the use of residential patrols at the Berry Brow Estate in Huddersfield, setting this within the context of private sector ...
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Beware the Ides of March
Both before and after the 20 March cut-off date for licensing of security officers, there has been much debate in the industry as to how regulation might have been applied in a slightly different fashion. Here, Kevin McLean offers his views on training and the Approved Contractor Scheme, which he ...
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Communication could be better
SIR - I was intrested to read last month's News Update in Security Management Today (‘ACS Terms and Conditions finally rubber-stamped by Home Office', SMT, March 2005,).
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Archive TitlesCourt order for Lochrin Bain's
LEADING PERIMETER PROTECTION SYSTEM manufacturer Lochrin Bain has won the contract to provide upgraded security fencing at Woolwich Crown Court in south east London.
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Archive TitlesSafer Business Award bestowed
The Safer Business Award - A nationally-recognised standard awarded by Action Against Business Crime (AABC) - has been bestowed upon the Teesside Shopping Park. Mike Clarke (Park manager), Eddie Lincoln (crime reduction liaison officer) and Alex Norris (Park security manager) are pictured here being presented with the prestigious award by ...
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Archive TitlesAttitudes to reform have been cavalier
At the end of February, Patrick Somerville - chairman of the International Professional Security Association (IPSA) - wrote to Home Secretary Charles Clarke on several matters relating to the implementation of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. As SMT passed for press, there had been no response from Parliament. Patrick ...
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Archive TitlesBSIA attacks coverage of Kent cash robbery
The British Security Industry Association and the GMB Trade Union have jointly attacked "ill-informed" national media coverage in the wake of the Kent cash robbery at Securitas' Medway House Depot, Vale Road, Tonbridge