Landing on mats in physical form and into email in-boxes digitally is the February 2025 edition of Professional Security Magazine. We continue a multi-month series on business crime reduction partnership (BCRP) working and ‘city close up’ features by visiting the business improvement district (BID) in Lincoln, pictured; and meeting the town marshal in Taunton, and the community safety patrollers in Exeter city centre.
As that suggests, we like nothing better than to get around the British Isles to see what’s new and interesting, and report back to readers. Hence our reports on the recent NAHS (National Association for Healthcare Security) annual conference, the gathering at Manchester United FC of the membership body National Business Crime Solution (NBCS) and the London conference of the Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF for short). Where we didn’t go was the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, but we did a page that digests what the gathering of the rich and powerful heard in cyber risk and jobs terms – quite promising for security managers (above all cyber, network and data ones).
We also pride ourselves each month on offering something of use for as many readers as possible, whatever their background. Hence we hark back to the summer of 2024 and the Euro football championships in Germany, and hear about the protection of public spaces by bollards in one of the host cities; the latest debate in the Houses of Parliament of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, better known as Martyn’s Law, as it progresses towards indeed becoming law; and advice on how to win tenders by submitting what those procuring guarding and related security services want to know from you, the supplier. Plus for a second month, word from a security chief in the banking sector.
Among the regulars are the page of book reviews, magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip about and for installers, manufacturers and distributors of security and fire products, the four pages of ‘spending the budget’, and the four pages of new products and services (including a feature on how retailers are having to be innovative, if they cannot rely on a consistent service from the police, to deter and prevent theft).
If you want to read more, previous editions of the magazine are on the ‘magazine‘ part of the website. If you would like to subscribe to the print magazine (starting at £40 for one year delivered in the UK), visit https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/product/subscribe-to-printed-magazine/.
For March, among our plans are features on red teaming, more on BCRPs, executive close protection, and CCTV control rooms.
