Now on desks and freely available to read online is the July 2025 edition of Professional Security Magazine, for all you need to know about the private security sector in the British Isles.
We’ve taken the first anniversary of Labour’s massive election win of July 2024 as our lead, to ask what Labour has done since. Their record at best is a patchy one – they did bring to law Martyn’s Law as the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, something that the Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak Conservative Governments were unable to do although they took up campaigner Figen Murray’s cause; but we have yet to see how laws about cyber security and resilience, and employment, will turn out, which will affect private security. How Martyn’s Law, also, becomes reality remains to be seen as the Security Industry Authority as the regulator and inspector now has the task of turning the law into a regime, which is at least 24 months away.
Also featured are phishing; lone worker safety; prison officer training; control rooms (photo by Mark Rowe) and the need to consider the well-being of the human operators, for the sake of efficiency and response in an incident; and table-top exercises as a way to test people’s responses and ready them for something that might not happen often, but has to be faced, whether man-made or an act of nature. As ever we pride ourselves on being out and about; we report from the ACS Pacesetters lunch and ‘officers of distinction’ awards at Windsor, and the Skills for Security gathering in central London.
As ever our regulars include magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip for installers, manufacturers and distributors of security and fire products; four pages of new products and services; and four pages of ‘spending the budget’.
You can read the July edition and previous ones at the ‘magazine‘ section of the website.
Photo by Mark Rowe.
