Now landing on desks and emailed in digital form to in-boxes is the April 2025 edition of Professional Security Magazine. March saw a first awareness week for business crime reduction partnerships, and the London-based Safer Business Network (SBN) which runs BCRPs around the capital was at the forefront of banging the drum for its work.
We offer you an inside look at the SBN work, for retailers and other businesses, taking in crime reports, analysing them, and informing members of the most prolific offenders, with the aim of getting them arrested and such crime – often organised – disrupted.
In 2019 and 2020 we visited Coventry Building Society to hear about their security department’s work as part of a wider project by the Coventry to refurbish its branches, in the main by taking out screens and offering a more welcoming service – while still protecting staff and customers (pictured, outside the Birmingham city centre branch, one of the first refurbished, featured in our January 2020 edition). We got invited back to the building society’s Coventry head office, to hear and see progress. That also inspired us to write about the security around open plan offices.
Also covered is travel security and close protection abroad; guarding at Manchester United FC; the latest progress by the fledgling Security Skills Board; and (as told to us by University of Salford security man Alan Cain) a new special interest group by the association for campus security managers Aucso, that seeks to bridge security management and emergency planning.
Plus regular features – four pages of ‘spending the budget’, four pages about new products and services, Magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip about and for manufacturers and distributors.
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Photo by Mark Rowe.
