Now arriving on desks and (as a digital version) into email in-boxes is the October edition of Professional Security Magazine.
Given that opinion polls show that the Labour Government’s lead in terms of public preference has evaporated since the July 2024 election and that Reform UK looks like taking power at any next general election, and given that Reform performed so strongly in local elections in May, taking power in numerous council areas (including in places charge for community safety), and among defectors from the Conservatives to Reform’s ranks is the police and crime commissioner for Leicestershire, we ask: what would a Reform UK government look like in terms of not only its touchstone policy against mass illegal immigration, but more generally in terms of criminal justice?
We feature healthcare security, the latest on Martyn’s Law, further efforts to integrate public space policing with private guarding contractors – we pay a visit to organiser Paul Evans, chief exec of Carlisle Support Services; business crime reduction partnership work, and football ground stewarding in the English fourth tier. As ever, we pride ourselves on getting out and about to take the pulse of the private security sector in the British Isles. Besides the magazine’s own Women in Security (WiS) awards night, we were at a Security Institute and London Regional Defence and Security Cluster (RDSC) event at a rainy University of Greenwich, to learn some of the latest on the cross-over between research and practice.
Plus all the regulars such as magazine editor Roy Cooper’s page of gossip about and for installers, manufacturers and distributors of security products and services; and four pages of ‘spending the budget’.
You can freely read editions of the magazine going back some years on the ‘magazine‘ part of the website.
Photo by Mark Rowe: Birmingham Central BID (business improvement district) patrollers, New Street, Birmingham city centre, weekday morning.
Next month
The November edition is due to feature artificial intelligence; violence against front-line staff; more on business crime reduction after the NABCP (National Association of Business Crime Partnerships) conference in Birmingham on October 9; and a review of the International Security Expo at London Olympia. The December edition will include a review of 2025.
