Next stop for the free to visit Security TWENTY 14 series of conference-exhibitions by Professional Security, ST14 for short, is Bristol.
So far since March 2013 we’ve been to Birmingham, London, Newcastle and Nottingham. The Bristol city centre Marriott is our latest venue on Wednesday, April 23, just after Easter. The format is the same as our previous events: first an evening networking dinner at the venue – and note that our venue’s postcode is BS1 3AD, the Marriott at Old Market near the Cabot Circus and Broadmead shopping centres, and not the one next to Bristol Cathedral and College Green. As we do regularly at the dinners, we’re running a raffle and magazine MD Roy Cooper’s speciality the ‘heads and tails’ game, for a local charity: the Great Western Air Ambulance, based in Bristol.
Who’s speaking
As ever, we have invited a range of speakers to update you (and us!) about all aspects of the private security sector. Our aim is to give you a worthwhile day, whether you pick up something from the conference, catch up with an old face, or see a new product or service from our exhibitors. And the event doesn’t cost you: we’ve even laid on a buffet lunch, and tea and coffee and snacks for the morning break. Bristol’s speakers are Mike White, chairman of the security association IPSA; David Spreadborough of Cheshire Police, on public space CCTV; Bill Butler, Security Industry Authority chief executive; Kishor Mistry of the Home Office, Head of Policy and Support for the Surveillance Camera Commissioner; Richard Stones, speaking on business crime for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO); and former Met Police man Mark Bradberry, of Carmdale, the trainers and consultants featured in our December issue, about the threat of ‘active shooters’. Simon Gordon, the founder and chairman of Facewatch, will brief us on his software that offers an online way to report crime to police.
Mike in the chair
Mike Tennent of trainers Tavcom will again chair the morning and afternoon conference. Roy Cooper and other Professional Security staff will be there. Roy said: “We want the ST14 events to be useful because you find a product that solves a problem, or you learn something you didn’t know, you see something you’ve never seen before, or you understand something you didn’t understand; or even you just need a day out of the office.”
And then Manchester
If Bristol and Nottingham aren’t in your region, but the north west is, put ST14 Manchester in your diary. That event’s running at the Hilton Deansgate – the tall new city centre building – on Tuesday, July 8. Our speakers so far for Manchester are Don Brown of Salford City Council (read about some of his work on page 66); and Tony Porter, the new Surveillance Camera Commissioner whose appointment began last month and was reported in our March issue. Richard Stones for ACPO will talk again on business crime. New for Manchester are a dog demonstration by Yorkshire-based K9 Patrol; and a talk by Tyneside-based installer Peter Houlis, MD of 2020 Vision. We haven’t forgotten Londoners: we’re running ST14 Autumn at the Park Inn by Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, October 28. We hope to see you in Bristol!
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