The backdrop to the making of the October 2022 print edition of Professional Security Magazine was the death, the mourning period and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Besides making the front cover a tribute to Her Majesty, we included in our main feature on bag searching the remarkable operation required for managing the queues of well-wishers paying their respects, first in Edinburgh and then London.
There as in innumerable cases, people entering a site are required to have their persons or belongings searched, in case of prohibited items. What is prohibited will depend – alcohol, knives or protest flags, or bags above a certain size? Are the security officers, carrying out the searches, informed enough about what they are looking for, and what to do if they find those things? Does the security operation tally with what service the client thinks he is getting, and paying for?
We bring you the second in the series of three articles that cover our day’s visit to the new build nuclear power station Hinkley Point C in Somerset as a guest of site security manager Frank Cannon (who we’ve since seen at the annual dinner of Chartered Security Professionals, and at the International Security Expo at Olympia; but they’re for the November print edition).
We welcome back Steve Collins the personal safety and weapons awareness trainer, of PS5, who’s developed training materials aimed at children. As ever we aim to offer something for everyone who’s in private security in the British Isles, whatever the sector or background – hence a review of the recent ITV documentary on retail loss prevention, a rare and sympathetic airing of security on peak-time television; a UK Government maritime security strategy document; a case study in local government CCTV; an update courtesy of Tony Imossi of the Association of British Investigators (ABI) of the data protection code he’s drafted; and what augmented reality might look like.
Plus words and pictures from last month’s pair of Security TWENTY events, in Belfast (pictured) and Dublin, each well attended; and magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip about and for distributors, manufacturers and installers of security products. You can read the magazine as a flip-page online document, and past editions, on the ‘magazine‘ section of this website; or email your postal address to [email protected] to request a print copy with a view to subscribing.
