Now on desks is the November 2023 print edition of Professional Security Magazine, as ever bringing you the news and views on the private security industry in the British Isles.
We report from the Security Industry Authority’s conference in London, which heard the regulator proposing a ‘fundamental re-set’ of its voluntary approved contractor scheme (ACS). Among other developments with potentially big consequences for the sector, we heard the latest on the ‘profession map’ by the SIA-backed skills board that aims to map out the myriad of jobs that make up security, and what qualifications and attributes are required to fill those positions – which would go some way to making security more of a ‘career of choice’, rather than something that people fall into.
As industry campaigners for the Protect Duty, a legal responsibility for sites and venues to guard against terrorism, known popularly as Martyn’s Law, we ask what place the state already has in setting private security standards, through the police, the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) and the Home Office’s unit, the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC).
Also we bring you the latest about the Brixton Academy, which Lambeth Council has allowed to open again, with numerous security-related and other conditions; what the former Met Police Commissioner Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe has to say about policing; and a geopolitical warning from a senior Conservative MP. Plus pages about business continuity; the NHS; and CCTV in local government. While we did bring you a page about the Women in Security (WiS) awards night in the October edition, we’ve put together a double-page spread of photos this time.
As ever we try to update you on every kind of security, whether physical, systems or cyber. Hence we feature the cyber security behind the scenes earlier this year when Liverpool hosted the annual Eurovision song contest. Continuing where we left off last month we feature business crime reduction partnerships; and how lower division football clubs in particular are suffering from hooliganism.
Plus our regulars, MD Roy Cooper’s gossip page for installers, manufacturers and distributors; four pages of ‘spending the budget’; and four pages of new products.
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Picture by Mark Rowe: SIA-badged officers at dusk on duty at the main entrance of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, central London.
