We bring you words and pictures from ST15 Nottingham, the first Security TWENTY event of 2015. Next month sees the next ST15 event, in Bristol. Among the speakers at Nottingham were Emma Shaw, the chairman of the Security Institute (who has just announced that she’s stepping down from the chair of the industry body after two years) and Mike White, the chairman of IPSA. Their joint talk was on industry bodies working together for the common good. We talked also to Emma Shaw afterwards – see what she had to say about the work so far on professionalising the sector and speaking with a common voice to businesses, Government and society in general.
Besides the usual pages of ‘spending the budget’ and new electronic and physical security products, we feature retail loss prevention – the latest annual British Retail Consortium crime survey, that points to cyber-crime as what retailers fear most; and we report from Retailers Against Crime, the Stirling-based retail crime partnership that takes in and sends out intelligence on travelling and organised thieves.
Our pages on guarding include developments in specialist training – for the healthcare sector, where security officers may have to restrain people not only doing crime and violence, but patients who are at risk of doing harm to others and themselves, whether because they are confused or because of their medication.
Last month our regular interviewer Una Riley reported on a Las Vegas casino; this time she’s in Los Angeles to talk to an authority in the field of kidnap negotiation. And the cover article is by the data mining specialist Richard Kusnierz, who argues that data mining, or in his phrase ‘investigative data analytics‘ can uncover patterns and suspicious activity, in invoices for example, or point to weak internal controls against fraud and collusion.
Plus all the regular pages, the ‘name to face’ of people making moves, the calendar of upcoming events, and Roy Cooper’s gossip for manufacturers, distributors and suppliers.
