vision
will increase learning, enhance understanding of responsibilities within each department, including individual workforce responsibilities, and most importantly, ensure that business continuity plans are fit for purpose and up to date with the current criminal methods. We are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution where velocity, scope and systems impact and speed of current breakthroughs is unprecedented. Transformation of entire systems, the global impact and keeping up with it in policing and private industry has never been so crucial to fighting crime; remember, cyber is a tool that can assist in committing most crimes.
Jayne King Chair, UK Security
Commonwealth.
Priorities for security, for individuals, organisations and public sector for 2022
An area of concern not just for security professionals but for the wider society is Violence Against Women and Girls. This topic was covered well at the ASC’s annual CONSEC event in October, where we heard from Victims’ Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC and The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, with Security Commonwealth (SyCom) Chair, Jayne King, also featuring as part of a panel discussion on the subject.
The panel outlined the huge extent of the issue with 28% of women experiencing some form of violence or abuse in their lifetimes. They support a whole-system approach with all parts of the community, including the security sector working together. They highlighted the work of a number of organisations in this area. In particular, domestic violence charity Refuge and its initiatives to combat online abuse; joint schemes in the Night Time Economy, for example, training for security officers; projects in education settings to protect children at risk; bystander projects in football clubs encouraging people to speak up against abuse; the Corporate Alliance against Domestic Abuse promoting strategic in-house plans to support members of staff who may be experiencing abuse; and the National Stalking helpline.
The discussion culminated in Jayne King saying: “Don’t be a bystander. If you hear something or see something you know is not right, be brave, stand up. We need to develop a culture where these kinds of behaviour are
just not just acceptable. It’s just not ok for the current levels of violence against women and girls to continue.”
Written on behalf of the Security Commonwealth by Mike Hurst CPP® CPOI FREC MSyI
Neill Catton Chair, City Security Council.
How can we improve
interoperability and partnership working in 2022?
Speaking as a member of the City Security Council, there have been some significant steps forward in the collaborative approach, not only with law enforcement but between security companies and industry associations. I think this can be improved upon further by the sharing of information and benchmarking between companies. For example, Health and Safety statistics and reasons for people leaving our sector, possibly. This would allow companies to measure their performance.
I appreciate some of this could be sensitive but if companies created NDAs it could be achieved, or alternatively, an average of all company information could be used. Whilst intelligence is important and a number of sharing applications are in place, security organisations should also look to share property information leaks, power issues, engineering and lifts. Learning from best practice could be shared, which in turn, will assist all in preparing employees for their role and increasing service levels and perception.
My experience of partnering with the City of London Police has been excellent this year. I believe that this does work elsewhere; to improve this and create a greater national feeling of partnership, private security organisations should be part of a national policing and private security forum.
Each has a great deal to offer in respect of training, knowledge, mentoring and resourcing. I am sure clients would buy in to these links, therefore driving security businesses to be part of a closer alliance with policing. There would need “buy in” from company leaders to make sure the effectiveness of initiatives reaches the front- line security professionals.
From my perspective, this is an open door and something that the private security sector would very much welcome.
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Paul Crowther CBE
former Chief Constable of British Transport Police and Consultant.
What key innovations and
developments
for security do you think will emerge in 2022?
2021 has been a strange year of business adjustment, as the limitations on businesses and individuals brought about by COVID have begun to lift. As they have, a new type of normal has emerged, with different working and travel patterns. The implications for the security industry and for security organisations are yet to be fully seen, and 2022 will be a year of further adjustment with a real need for flexibility and innovation.
Fewer staff in offices means a reduction in the levels of informal premises security traditionally achieved through the presence of alert staff. Changes in staff travel patterns coincide with a long overdue awareness and growing unease about the threat to the safety of women and girls, not just when travelling or socialising, but when in the workplace too.
That in turn means that employees rightly have a significantly higher expectation of their employers’ commitment to their overall personal safety and well-being.
Helping ensure their safety to, from and during work will become much more of a standard expectation.
Financial challenges faced by businesses over the last two years will undoubtedly drive even greater focus on cost.
The nature of security, the services provided and the way they are delivered will need to adapt and change accordingly.
Physical security measures, particularly using traditional guarding resources, may become an expensive option in the face of significant workplace change and organisational demand, and the availability of new technologies.
Traditional CCTV systems and patrolling personnel may find themselves left behind, as drones, advanced computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data lakes and other smart technologies begin to find their way from high-end national security use cases into more everyday security scenarios. The tech world is adapting quickly and will challenge traditional approaches.
Now is the time for innovative thinking within security organisations.
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