On desks now and online is the January 2015 print issue of Professional Security magazine.
As ever the issue has four pages of Spending the Budget – who is winning what contracts from who – and four pages of new electronic and physical security products; the page 10 of new moves and faces; Roy Cooper’s gossip on page 13; and columnists Una Riley (who meets a new face at the Fire and Security Association) and Jim Gannon, who queries standards of police recruitment.
There’s a focus on training – including a report from the HABC conference in November at Old Trafford in Manchester, which went over phsyical restraint for guards and doormen – and exporting security products and services, hearing from men who are making a living overseas. But while the UK does have a high reputation for its security services and products, don’t expect foreign markets to simply open up for you; as ever, you have to do your homework and you only get out what you put in, we are told.
Also pages on hotel security, the Christmas gathering of the PCMA – Public CCTV Managers Association – and a couple of political pages, with an eye on the May 2015 general election: an interview with Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, Labour spokesman on private security and the Security Industry Authority (SIA); and Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP for Lewes who was a speaker at a recent meeting of the Designing out Crime Association in Brighton, only a couple of weeks after he resigned as a Home Office minister for crime prevention.
Plus the regular features on IP security case studies, views and new products; upcoming events on the calendar page 8; and our directory of security suppliers. You can read back issues of the print magazine, going back years, online.
