We continue our look around the UK at business crime reduction partnerships (BCRPs) in the November edition of Professional Security Magazine, now landing as a print version through the physical letterboxes of subscribers, and freely available as a digital, flip-page version.
Our latest visit to a BCRP takes us to the cathedral city of Gloucester (pictured), that has county-wide partnership working, a business improvement district in the city, and that’s enjoying some visible regeneration. Talking of cathedrals, we visit Salisbury to see their council CCTV system, and specifically how volunteer control room operators are a valued part of the set-up. We sat in on a ‘business crime summit’ by a police and crime commissioner (PCC) where some home truths got aired; and we attended Consec, the annual conference of the Association of Security Consultants (ASC), where the theme was supply chain security.
On Martyn’s Law, we report the second reading in Parliament of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill that would place a legal responsibility on hundreds of thousands of premises UK-wide to document steps to counter the threat of terrorism; and a medical aspect of such a duty, whereby security and other employees, or indeed passers-by, may be better equipped to close the ‘care gap’ of first response before medical professionals arrive on the scene of a mass casualty incident, by carrying out ‘ten second triage’.
Also featured: football hooligan numbers; retail shop floor headsets; mindfulness; drones; counter-protest intelligence gathering; and the Hikvision roadshow for installers, that shows how the video surveillance product manufacturer is branching out, for example into digital signage, a potential market for installation companies. Plus the regulars such as magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip for and about manufacturers, distributors and installers of security products and services; and four pages of ‘spending the budget’.
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Photo by Mark Rowe; street art, Gloucester city centre.
