The Security Industry Authority has sent details of its second conference
Titled Security Talks: Improving Regulation and Raising Standards, it’s on Friday, May 16 at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds LS10 1LT.
The first hour will open with talks by SIA figures: Hazel Banks, Director Strategic Development; Baroness Ruth Henig, chair; and Mike Wilson, CEO. Then will come the seminars on โreview and interpretation of the application of the Private Security Industry Act 2001โ on the topics of proposed licence integration; feasibility and benefits of the compulsory registration of companies; and should in-house security be licensed โ the case for and against. After lunch will come a speech by Stuart Lowden, Managing Director, Wilson James and Vice-Chair, BSIA. Then thereโll be feedback from the morning seminars as attenders will not be able to attend two of the three; they will be able hear the gist of what was said.
Afternoon seminars
Then come the afternoon seminars: under the title of โraising quality and standards within the private security industryโ: here the topics are โtraining, qualifications and licensing requirementsโ; a discussion of the influences that affect strategic buying decisions and what actions can be taken to increase the proportion of customers specifying ACS in the procurement of security; and โcompliance and enforcementโ.
