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August print issue

by Mark Rowe

New on desks is the August 2015 print issue of Professional Security magazine. As ever it has various news and views covering physical, electronic and cyber security and manned guarding.

The cover article points to the code of practice for security searches as outlined in a talk at IFSEC by guarding company director and chairman of the BSIA’s Police and Public Services section, Dirk Wilson. London 2012, we report, was a largely private security-guarded event, and required the many thousands of visitors each day of the Olympics to be searched before they were let into the Olympic Park at Stratford. At some sports and entertainment events, besides museums and iconic buildings, and airports, searches are a way to check for unwanted or dangerous items, whether firearms or other weapons, or contraband. How, though, to be sure that all staff are searching consistently – to be sure of consistent site security, and to guard against complaints of heavy-handedness?

Besides our regulars such as contributors Una Riley (at the services contractor Sodexo’s control room in Manchester, certificated Gold by the National Security Inspectorate, NSI) and Jim Gannon (looking at the migrant-related chaos at the French port of Calais and – with no end in sight – what that means for UK border security and trade), and the name to face, new products and ‘spending the budget’ pages, we review IFSEC from June in words and pictures, and cover the annual Imbert Prize as announced at the Association of Security Consultants annual lunch.

We feature sports stadium security; the revised British Standard for detector-activated CCTV, BS8418; and interview Mark Sutton, the new chairman of the Association of University Chiefs of Security (AUCSO), and Malcolm Dawson, the acting head of security at the University of Leeds, one of several security figures to have been given awards in the latest Queen’s birthday honours. Talking of awards, there’s Simon Banks as the winner of the FSA’s Peter Greenwood awards; and awards for officers as presented by some guarding contractors.

We cover the Home Office decision not to allow Boris Johnson the Mayor of London to deploy water cannon in case of riots; and read the letters released to do with that decision with an eye on the policing of protests.

Visit https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/magazine/ to read the ‘print’ issues online.

Photo: Bag search at the entrance of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, late afternoon, July 7, 2015.

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