The comeback – or at least the refusal to wither and die – of local government, public space CCTV, is featured in the August print edition of Professional Security magazine, that you can freely read online. If fact we’re going around the country, enjoying being able to get out again, to cover council systems of various sizes and types, from our July to November editions.
In August we have a comment piece from Peter Webster, of the CCTV User Group, on ‘ways to avoid the axe’; and go through the first CCTV strategy of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London, which seeks to set public space surveillance up in a joined-up way, according to the principles of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner.
As ever in the magazine we aim to offer something for everyone, whatever their position or interest in private security. That means further detail on what the Protect Duty might look like if and when the Home Office turns it into a legal responsibility; a qualification option for private investigators, if regulation of that sector is not going to come from UK Government; and pages on quarantine hotel guarding, and the cyber and physical security around the UK’s vaccination programme.
We also squeezed in half a page on the disgraceful – but entirely predictable? – disorder outside Wembley Stadium as ticketless ‘fans’ ignored the pandemic and tried to force entry into the final of the Euros on Sunday, July 10, to watch England against Italy. While there’s a century-long pedigree of football crowds out of hand at Wembley on big occasions, a new element now is that thanks to smartphones that can take pictures and video, streams of video – including footage of stewards and security officers kicking at fans as they try to barge into the stadium – were in no time watched by millions.
(Picture by Mark Rowe, outside Wembley; shown with temporary fencing set up for the Euros, but before the violence.)
Also topical and featured is littering and drunkenness and other anti-social behaviour at seaside and other holiday spots that are much more busy as fewer people are holidaying abroad, like last summer, thanks to the pandemic.
While Professional Security Magazine’s own Security TWENTY events have begun again in-person, and we bring you words and pictures from the first of 2021, ST21 Birmingham at The Belfry, the membership group ACS Pacesetters‘ annual officer of distinction awards had to be done online, as the pre-pandemic usual lunch at Windsor was not possible. But Professional Security MD Roy Cooper was their compere remotely, so we bring you who won, for what outstanding deeds.
Instead of a book review page, we hear from the criminologist Prof Alison Wakefield, about her new book, that sets out how security and crime fit into the world, no less. Plus all the regulars – Roy Cooper’s gossip page, four pages of new products, four pages of ‘spending the budget’.
You can view past months online at https://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/magazine/. If you would like to take a look at a print copy, email info@professionalsecurity.co.uk.
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