Author: Andy Walker
ISBN No: 1 84205 097 4
Review date: 07/12/2025
No of pages: 384
Publisher: Geddes & Grosset, New Lanark, ML11 9DJ
Year of publication: 11/09/2012
Brief:
Safer Doors (2001) by Andy Walker.
A training guide that fits in your pocket – sounds simple, but how often do you see it? Humberside police officer Andy Walker, author of Safer Doors, has long trained door staff and campaigned for higher door supervision standards. ‘I wanted something for the doorman that could carry at work. If they see a substance they aren’t happy with, for example, they can look it up.’ While it’s written for door personnel (one chapter covers ‘your legal rights if arrested’) it’s handy for everyone tasked with securing a building or event giving access to the boisterous or drink-influenced. The book’s championing of good practice is relevant for all in Security – when encountering the public, learning to listen, and saying ‘no’ to them successfully (politely but firmly.- even practice saying it). The book goes through all the skills needed by door staff – searching, controlling aggression, handling disputes, giving evidence in court – and many issues common to the security industry but faced to a more extreme extent by staff in the night-time economy (drugs, assault, firearms). That’s not all. The tills at licenced premises are targets for theft, and Andy Walker lists in plain detail how to make a till area less attractive to robbers, and what to do in the event of a robbery. This fine book ends with extracts from the British Standard BS 7960, the door staff and stewards’ code of practice. One instance of Andy’s attention to detail is the notes on how Scottish legal and other practices differ from the rest of the UK.<br><br>
Safer Doors (2001), by Andy Walker.
