The May 2025 edition of Professional Security Magazine is now landing on subscribers’ desks, and the digital version into email in-boxes. As ever, it’s your premier place to get up to date with the private security sector in the British Isles.
Whatever your background and interest, we do what we can to bring you something relevant and altogether worth your while reading. And we pride ourselves on getting about to see the sector and report back to you. Hence this month we report on one of the three days of manufacturer DeterTech’s sector-themed showcase for users and prospective customers; what was said about contract guarding and corporate security at the UK OSPAs thought leadership summit; and contractor Carlisle Support Services‘ Innovation Lab and awards evening in London Docklands. The most significant news for some time for the UK private security industry was aired during The Security Event at the Birmingham NEC, about Martyn’s Law – a legal responsibility on premises to take measures to counter the threat of terrorism ; more to the point for consultants, vendors and practitioners, what they could or should do to meet the Law.
Plus we bring you two uses of video surveillance beyond protection of assets; how the climax of the football season cannot help but be fraught for some; what the Labour Government has to say about fraud prevention; and also on the cyber side, how ‘nudges’ can get your employees to do safe things online, as altogether more effective than awareness training or threats of sanctions. Plus all the regulars such as Magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip about and for installers, manufacturers and distributors of security products and services; four pages of new products; and four pages of ‘spending the budget’.
If you’d like to take a look at a print copy with a view to subscribing – which starts at £40 for one year – email your name and postal address to [email protected]. You can freely read the digital version of magazines going back a few years at the ‘magazine‘ section of the website.
June’s edition will feature communications and other tech; July will include a review of ‘Labour in government – one year on’ and how its changes to public policy, or lack of them, are affecting private security.
Photo by Mark Rowe; Outside Tottenham Hotspurs’ stadium, north London, summer 2023.
