We go by bus in London in the October 2015 print issue of Professional Security magazine. Following the summer awards ceremony at New Scotland Yard for bus CCTV, that we featured in our August issue, we visit the Leyton depot of bus operator Tower Transit. We hear further about how and why the bus company has CCTV on its buses – which has cut out graffiti by passengers – and what uses police are making of footage.
Also on a transport theme in London and after in our September 2015 issue reviewing the latest book by the surveillance trainer Peter Jenkins, he writes about how to do surveillance, whether by foot or on the Tube or other transport, in the capital. On a travel theme, we speak to the medical and security emergency consultancy International SOS, about preparing for a crisis that may require you to evacuate or at least check on your staff or ex-pats in an affected country, whether due to civil unrest or a natural disaster such as an earthquake (as hit Nepal earlier this year) or flood or hurricane.
On the manned guarding side we survey pay and conditions, bearing in mind the Government’s new living wage; hear from the MD of the UK Gurkha arm of the multi-national company G4S; and interview a Midlands-based guarding company MD with a leisure sector background that goes back to the 1970s. And we look through the BSIA code of practice for security searches.
On the cyber side, we feature a guide to password security from the official UK bodies CESG and CPNI; and speak to one of the candidates in the SANS Cyber Academy – a way of trying to bridge the gap between talented people who want to enter the cyber-security field, but lack the experience, and employers who ideally want people ready to go with experience – the perennial problem.
We also interview the consultant and trainer David Rubens; the specialist security recruitment consultants Mike Hurst and Graham Bassett; and feature our regular columnists Una Riley and Jim Gannon; four pages of ‘spending the budget’ and four pages of new products and services; our pages for and about installers, and about networked security products and systems; and the book review page.
