The growing importance of partnership and collaboration
Don Randall MBE CSyp FSyl
Chair of the City of London Crime Prevention Association
We are facing unprecedented security challenges
from a variety of sources – both nationally and
Leaders and professionals in security give us their insight into future trends
ver the past ten years significant advances and changes have been made in the security sector. These include the increasing use and complexity of technology, professionalisation of the sector and a growing number of security-related qualifications.
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We asked security professionals and leaders from the sector for their insight into changes from the last decade they believe will continue to impact the future of security.
Their answers broadly came in these key areas:
• The growing importance of partnership and collaboration
• achieving a resilent approach to security • digital transformation • the increasing use of intelligence, and • security standards
internationally. I have not changed my firm belief that the only way law enforcement agencies in our country can tackle these issues is by way of public/private partnership engagements.
Project Griffin, launched in 2003, and the Cross-Sector Safety & Security
Communications (CSSC) initiative, launched in 2011, are acknowledged as successful partnerships. However, one of the most notable aspects during their combined 20 years of activity is that there has not been any evidence or indication of misuse, misinterpretation or abuse of the information shared. This clearly demonstrates that public/private partnerships are a proven vehicle for law enforcement agencies to engage with. Others here reflect on the recent implementation and success of the City Security Council (CSC), which follows these models.
We have to examine the causal effect of various crimes, whether they be as a result of terrorism, extremism, cyber, drugs, violence or any other criminal activity. For example, will the motivation for terrorist activity shift from a religious to an environmental perspective? Will basic criminal acts be caused by economic hardship? Will cyber crime increase due to the enormity of the infrastructure and the failure to exercise basic hygiene security measures?
The mass of criminal statistics available needs to more accurately reflect the reality of crime, which at present I do not believe is the case. In violent crime, we need to understand whether it is gang-related, drugs-related, organised crime, domestic or situational.
We face an ever-changing world: environmentally, politically and socially. In looking ahead, we need to anticipate the potential security consequences, maximise on the current data and forge future partnerships at local, regional and national levels.
David Ward Director of DW Associates & founder of the City Security Council
The significance of partnership and collaboration between private sector security companies and the
public sector will continue to grow in importance and will impact the future of security.
It is hard to believe that it was only four years ago this October that we founded the City Security Council, and it has already made a huge impact on how security operates within the City of London. We now have a direct two-way communications platform sitting inside the City of London Police Joint Command and Control Room (JCCR) where security companies in the city can receive key messaging directly from the police and in return send intelligence reports such as the lightning report straight back into the JCCR; many community groups also sit on the platform to receive police messaging.
In addition, the CSC carries out Hi-visibility days in London twice a year. Not only do they allow the opportunity for the Police and security to patrol together, both during the day and into the night, more importantly, in the event of a major incident the security officers on the ground can be called upon to provide a reassuring visible presence and give factually correct information to the public around them with just one message from the JCCR. I anticipate this model will spread around the UK in the next ten years and become a national model.
Our newly formed skills board will continue to grow and will also follow a national footprint, bringing into the fold security companies across the country to help develop the security training academy of the future, possibly funded by apprentice levy money that would otherwise have been returned, where crime scene preservation, cordon control and trauma first aid will all be taught as standard, each of these skills providing further support to the blue light services, allowing the police and others to concentrate on the incident itself rather than managing the scene.
Finally, the CSC intelligence group will continue to grow across the country and its members, comprising top-level analysts and security intelligence officers, will continue to work together sharing their work with the police, becoming trusted partners, which will eventually allow the sharing of far more sensitive data both ways to ensure the safety of the public.
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© CITY SECURITY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2022
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