Now on desks and in your email in-boxes is the October print edition of Professional Security Magazine. As ever it’s your guide to what’s news in the private security sector in the British Isles.
We say British Isles because it’s not only the UK; last month we ran the Irish double leg of our Security TWENTY series of exhibitions, in Dublin and Belfast. We took the occasion to find out about intentions in the Republic of Ireland to have on-street wardens, besides the police, to provide community safety. While in Dublin, we took the chance to sit down with the new chairman of the Association of Security Consultants, Gary Thomas, to hear about him and what he hopes to bring to the ASC.
We can’t get enough of events at Professional Security – we were at the Belfry, the swish golf club outside Birmingham, for a first golf day under the umbrella (not literally – the weather was superb) of Women in Security. And we can bring you the winners of the WiS 2023 awards, announced on the South Bank in London last month.
When we found time to actually sit down, we looked at the Security Industry Authority’s monthly data, which shows that the number of approved contractors has noticeably fallen; and the numbers of SIA-badged have kept rising. The recent change in the leading nationalities of those licensed, besides British, may come as a surprise to readers.
We begin a short series on business crime reduction partnerships, and report what retail leaders have been saying about crime against their businesses.
As the 2023-24 football season began, we consider the developments in rowdyism around the game – and find that it’s not necessarily happening in the Premier League, or indeed on a football ground at all, but on the streets.
Plus all the regulars each month – a book review page, four pages of ‘spending the budget’, four pages of new products and services, and magazine MD Roy Cooper’s page of gossip for and about manufacturers, distributors and installers.
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