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subject, may prefer to look through the opening pages overviewing the issues and the UK security environment generally. With that as a background, the handbook guides the reader in areas of procurement and security management, including help with obtaining additional advice. A description of the principles and the
‘state of the art’ in the various sectors of security then follows – physical security, access control, electronic security, manned services and CCTV, including the essential topic of privacy legislation. However, the book recognises that there are security challenges for managers for which a purely technical solution may not be enough – namely robbery, cyber risk and the increasingly troubling threat of building occupation by groups of travellers, who wreak havoc and are not easily dislodged. There was a time in the ’60s and ’70s when acquisitive crime was rampant and our criminals were held to be the best in Western Europe, if not the world. However, at a point in the ’90s, technological development allowed security products to become more effective and respectable.
Experts hold that such technological
advancement, as well as the huge national rollout of security in our country over the years, lay behind the improvement in crime statistics following their peak in 1995. Now however, there is no room for complacency, since the trend appears to be reversing at a time when a lot of the security out there is now of the ‘legacy’ variety. Academic studies involving interviews with offenders leave no doubt that most crimes involve calculation and planning to one degree or another, and that criminals differentiate between outdated equipment and our present day technology. Therefore, there is all the more reason
to revisit the security exposure of the organisation, and to consider whether the action originally taken has stood the test of time. If not, I commend the pages of the Security Handbook as the place to start the remedial process
Mike Jay is convenor of the RISCAuthority security group and author of the Security Handbook. For more information, view page 5
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