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1 Welcome 2-5


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Exploring different routes into security


Raising standards in security


Interview with Dr Alison Wakefield


10 How do you prove you are good at retail loss prevention?


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The public and private face of dealing with new threats


12-13 The Register of Chartered Security Professionals in 2018


14 Are you a security professional?


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Safe from harm: security in schools


Shopping around for good charity fraud advice


17 Diversity and Inclusion in the security sector


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Setting the standards in canine aviation security


20 ASIS event encourages business to value security


21 Why should security professionals study for a postgraduate degree?


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Customer service skills are not just ‘nice to haves’


Transition to Civvy Street Partnership Update Project Servator


Increased professionalism will enhance our industry’s cyber credentials


Technology is disrupting recruitment in the security sector


30 Why veterans make excellent cyber specialists and Investing in quality: how can you prove the ‘gold standard’?


31 A week in the life of a security operations manager


SECURITY ISSUE 69 - AUTUMN 2018


City Security magazine launches new website – all your security know-how in one place.


Our newly launched website citysecuritymagazine.com now provides access to our archive of exceptional content from the past six years and, going forward, from future editions, meaning all your security know-how is now in one place. Everyone in security can find the information they need in our easy-to-search


article categories, in support of our common goals of protecting our people, property and communities. As the latest incidents at Westminster show, we must constantly maintain vigilance and look for ways to improve.


With this in mind, and as the new academic year begins and students everywhere return to their studies, our autumn edition has two related areas of focus. Firstly, we consider career paths, qualifications and professionalisation for those working in the security sector, and secondly, developing best practice in retail security.


The edition opens with four security professionals in very different roles sharing a summary of their career to date, their approach to training and qualifications and any advice they would pass on to others.


In an interview with Alison Wakefield, Chairman of the Security Institute and Senior Lecturer in Security and Risk Management, she shares her views on the opportunities for today’s security professionals, the challenges these bring and her ideas on career development.


A number of articles explore what professionalisation means in the security sector and the range of security training and qualifications supporting its professionalisation, including an article discussing the progress of the Register of Chartered Security Professionals.


We also feature information on the transition from the military to civvy street, discuss diversity and inclusion in security and cover a recent ASIS event that focused on how security


professionals can develop the core skills of influencing and developing self-confidence.


Within retail security, we include the results of interviews with twelve heads of loss prevention about their approach to crime and security in the world of retail. We also spotlight the response from charity retailers to the risks they face and consider the future for traditional high street recruitment agencies as technology takes over.


We will be at International Security Expo, 28–29 November at Olympia and look forward to seeing you there.


Please take a look at the website www.citysecuritymagazine.com and let us know what you think. You may like to submit suggestions for future articles or send photographs of security related subjects or issues you may have come across over your summer travels?


Eugene O’Mahony Executive Editor


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