The latest, print and digital edition of Professional Security Magazine, for January 2025, is now landing through physical letterboxes and into email in-boxes.
As ever, it features all the news and comment that you need to stay up to date with the private security industry in the British Isles. Featured are proposed changes to the streetscape on Oxford Street in London’s West End, that may have implications for public protection and community safety there; ways that contract guarding firms are seeking to reward outstanding work by officers; modern slavery and child exploitation; risk as explained by a public relations professional; protests; theft from building sites; and the police’s roll-out of a national ‘right person right care’ policy that may mean they are less likely to respond to a 999 call if it’s more of a matter for healthcare.
And this first month’s edition of 2025 has all our regulars – Professional Security Magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip for and about installers, distributors and manufacturers of products; a calendar of events for 2025, including the magazine’s own Security TWENTY series of regional exhibitions; four pages of ‘spending the bidget’; and four pages of new products and services.
Our main feature continues a theme from the previous month – of protection of the railways. We look at Hull railway station, courtesy of the contractor Carlisle Support Services; and Docklands Light Railway (DLR). We visit a ‘hub’, a converted disused mobile phone shop beside the bus station that’s connected with Hull Paragon station, and wonder why the UK doesn’t have dozens more – places at bus and rail interchanges that can serve as a place for numerous authorities to use as a base, and for the vulnerable to attend to ask for help or services.
As ever, we’ve been out and about at industry events; we bring you what Security Industry Authority (SIA) enforcement man Paul Fullwood told the recent NAHS (National Association for Healthcare Security) conference in Birmingham; and the IAASF (International Arts & Antiquities Security Forum) heritage resilience conference in County Durham.
You can freely read this edition and previous months’ at the ‘magazine‘ part of the Professional Security Magazine website. If you would like to see a print copy of the edition with a view to subscribing, email your name and postal address to [email protected].
Photo by Mark Rowe: Pontoon Dock, DLR station, train approaching for Woolwich, last month.
