PRESIDENT & CEO VIEWPOINTS
POLICE SUCCESS
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TRAINING COSTS
As I announced at our AGM, we will be implementing a €200 (plus VAT if applicable) per person training fee for additional member training courses outside of the number of participants allowed within our membership categories. This will cover the administration costs associated with our training programmes and we believe it represents outstanding value for the quality of the courses we deliver to support our FSR & TSR certification programmes. The training fee for non-members remains at €1,499 (plus VAT if applicable).
We will continue to add value to the experience. Our new online training has been an instant success and will enable us to train some 1,000 people in 2020. In 2021, we will add video-based training, including local language subtitled courses, to make adopting the TAPA Standards even more accessible and flexible. And, as always, we’re open to your ideas for other improvements.
NOTHING TO FEAR
YOU’VE GIVEN US A MANDATE TO GO IT ALONE, BUT WE’D PREFER A PARKING PARTNERSHIP
As I write this month’s update, I am preparing to participate in the latest EU LANDSEC meeting and to update the group on the progress of TAPA’s secure truck parking programme.
TAPA EMEA has been working with the EU on this topic for many years and has actively participated in a number of projects, including SETPOS, LABEL, and as a member of the expert group of the Commission’s latest Safe and Secure Truck Parking Areas (SSTPA) initiative. Overall, I feel we should be very enthusiastic that the Commission is continuing to seek a solution to one of the greatest causes of cargo crime; the lack of secure parking places. However, they don’t need to do this alone.
TAPA EMEA has decided to pursue a campaign to significantly expand the number of parking sites that conform to our Parking Security Requirements (PSR) Standard but, at the same time, we are continuing to reach out to the European Commission and EU Member States to ask them to take a collaborative approach to addressing the need for increased truck parking places.
We continue to seek constructive dialogue with the Commission because TAPA’s
primary objective is to reach a mutual recognition position between both the PSR and SSTPA standards. Our preference is to increase the availability of secure parking in collaboration with the EU SSTPA scheme but if the Commission cannot support this strategy, TAPA has to continue with PSR as an independent programme. This is clearly the view of our members, too, who at this month’s AGM voted unanimously in favour of this approach.
We have never seen this as a competition. We don’t want to be the ‘winner’, we just want to use our respected industry standard, which has been developed by the buyers and users of secure truck parking places, to bring about a sea change in this critical area of supply chain resilience.
TAPA is making very significant progress in this area. The 72 sites and more than 7,300 parking places in 13 countries in our secure parking database means PSR is already the most supported truck parking standard aimed by reducing cargo crime and protecting drivers. But this is a long road. The level of demand for secure truck parking is estimated to be more than 2,000 sites and 400,000+ places.
We don’t think anyone can achieve this on their own. Let’s do it in partnership. I will, of course, update you on the outcome of the LANDSEC discussions.
I am one of the industry experts contributing to the cargo crime report in this month’s Security Management magazine, produced by ASIS International, and I’m in good company. Among the other contributors, the comments of Björn Hartong, CPP, practice leader for marine and security and principal risk engineer at Zurich Insurance Group, particularly resonated with me. It’s something we all know but it also struck me that it’s something we should be trying to do more to fix. While emphasising the lucrative nature of cargo crime, Björn highlights the low risks for offenders. It’s a fact that cross-border crimes are especially complex for police forces, making arrests and the recovery of stolen goods often almost impossible. An arguably bigger concern, however, is the low level of penalties applied when criminals are captured and brought to court. In a large number of cases, the penalties are just too lean and certainly no deterrent to those involved, who are known to regularly reoffend. This is a topic we will return to.
REPORTING RESISTENCE Transported Asset Protection Association Transported Asset Protection Association Transported Asset Protection Association Transported Asset Protection Association
APPROVED SECURE PARKING OPERATOR
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Every time I read another report on cargo crime trends in South Africa, I get a sense of frustration about why more of these incidents are not being reported to TAPA’s IIS database. We have invested a lot of time to try to establish TAPA’s presence in South Africa but I do believe we can do even more if we have the data to show the true scale of the problem. Maybe you can suggest some solutions? I’d love to hear from you.
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