Now on desks, the January 2016 print issue of Professional Security magazine. As ever we bring you news and views of the UK private security industry, whether for security managers, installers, manufacturers, or consultants and specifiers.
We preview our first ST16 conference-exhibition of the year, at Nottingham on Thursday, February 4.
We consider what now for countering terrorism after the attacks in Paris in November, both for the Euro 2016 football championships in France in the summer and for public safety of crowded places in general.
On that theme we report from King’s Cross station (pictured), and hear from the City of London, on the latest roll-out of Project Servator, the new and evolving method of police deployment to use assets – whether patrolling officers, dogs and horses, public space CCTV and an informed and alert community such as retailers – to best effect to make it harder for terrorists to do hostile reconnaissance or for criminals in general to operate.
Also in London we report on the recent second annual Police and Security conference, a forum for private and business security and the police to exchange best practice. Information sharing despite the example of the 2012 Olympics is still not perfect, both sides admit. And still in London, we bring words and pictures from the second annual hotel security officer of the year awards, given at Simpson’s on the Strand.
Plus all the regular features – new faces and new jobs, calendar page, four pages of ‘spending the budget’ case studies, our regular contributors Jim Gannon and Una Riley, MD Roy Cooper’s gossip page, books reviewed, and pages about network and IP security, and about and for installers.
We’ve also a couple of pages about security management use of social media; and news on the cyber security side, including an account from inside the climax of the Cyber Security Challenge, that tasked t-shirted amateur cyber-security hopefuls against a (fictional) threat to a VIP conference.
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