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Implications of Brexit report

by Mark Rowe

Despite the UK’s June referendum vote to leave the European Union, the UK Government should pursue as far as possible continued involvement with EU security institutions, especially Europol. So says the business body London First, in a report on the security and resilience implications of Brexit.

Among the authors of the report was the former senior Met Police man Sir David Veness, who chairs the security and resilience advisory board of London First. He spoke on the report and its ten recommendations at a gathering last night at London Guildhall, where IFSEC announced a new part of its annual show, covering borders and infrastructure.

Other authors of the 15-page report were Dr Alison Wakefield, senior lecturer in security risk management at the University of Portsmouth (who touched on the report in her talk to the Association of Security Consultants‘ annual conference, Consec); Dr Hugo Rosemont; Dave Clark, head of security at the Francis Crick Institute at St Pancras, London, and chairman of the UK chapter of ASIS; Prof Chris Hankin of Imperial College London; and Robert Hall, the director of London First’s security and resilience network.

A second paper is expected to cover the implications of Brexit for the corporate security sector.

The 14-page report also called for better information sharing between the public and private sectors, to address any deficiencies in UK security as a result of Britain exiting the EU; a ‘national debate’ on the future of the UK’s security; business to business (B2B) co-operation to address any shortfall in UK security; support for the likes of Project Griffin, Argus, and ‘Stay Safe’; preparing for the EU’s general data protection regulation, due to come into force across the European Union in 2018, and applying to anyone handling data of EU countries; maintaining security-related research (some of which has been paid for from EU budgets); ‘very firm action to counter hate crime and to enhance security resilience’; ‘full engagement with the public and private sectors on the follow up to the Lord Harris Review’ for the London mayor; and support for the review of counter-terrorism CONTEST strategy and its recommendations.

One of the regular breakfast briefings run in the city by the network covered the consequences of the Brexit vote, on July 21. A digest of what was said at that meeting is on the London First website.

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