Calendar Advisory Board and Regular Contributors Training Tavcom Training, Hampshire: September courses include gathering video evidence (18-20), practical access control installation (11-15), and intruder alarm legislation (7). www.tavcom.com. John Cully Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Professional Security. Over 30 years in senior management positions within the security industry and various security bodies. Jim Gannon Retired head of Unipart Group Security Operations. Formerly Thames Valley Police Fraud Squad and No. 5 Regional Crime Squad. Mike Gillespie MD of consultancy Advent IM. Board member of the Security Institute. Smiles by Wiles... Lord Imbert CVO QPM JP Patron of the Association of Security Consultants (ASC). Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1987-93. Una Riley A representative on several industry bodies and a Past Master of the Company of Security Professionals. Redvers Hocken Principal of the consultancy Redvers Hocken Associates, project manager. Cartoonist Arnold Wiles’ wry look at the security industry “And would you believe my identity’s been stolen twice - by identical twins!” FUNNY WORLD In the pink Rural thieves are brazen, said a recent report by the insurer NFU Mutual. Between March and May Cambridgeshire Police had some 108 battery thefts reported to them. Thieves typically cut the cables from farmers’ irrigation pumps and machinery, or find scrap batteries from yards and try to sell them at scrap yards or recycling centres for their lead content. Police are asking farmers to paint their batteries pink and etch each one with their postcode. Police haven’t left it there; they have been visiting scrap yards and recycling centres asking staff not to accept pink or marked batteries without a driving licence or such photo identification with an address linking the holder to the (etched) battery. This month September 12: Retailers Against Crime, 20th anniversary conference, Glasgow. September 12-15: DSEi, defence exhibition, London. www.dsei.co.uk. September 14: ASIS UK autumn seminar. www.asis.org.uk. Also Security Institute regional CPD seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University. September 19: next meeting, City of London Crime Prevention Association, subject: counterfeiting. www. cityoflondoncpa.org.uk. September 20: Breakfast seminar on behalf of Manchester City Centre Crime Prevention Panel. September 20-21: Emergency Services Show, NEC. www.emergencyuk.com. September 25-28: ASIS 2017, Dallas. September 28: next Association of Security Consultants (ASC) business group meeting, London EC1Y. securityconsultants.org.uk. 2017 - October to December October 3: Security Institute annual conference, City of London. www.securityinstitute.org. October 4: Fire and Security Expo 2017, Exeter Chiefs stadium, by Securi-Guard. October 5: Retail Risk - King Power Stadium, Leicester. www.retailrisk.com. October 6-8: MLA Expo 2017, Master Locksmiths Association exhibition, Telford. www.locksmiths.co.uk/mla-expo/. October 12: ASC CONSEC annual conference, pictured above, Heathrow Marriott Hotel. Also London Fraud Forum 11th annual conference. www. londonfraudforum.co.uk. October 30-November 1: CSX 2017, cyber-security conference, Intercontinental London - The O2. www. isaca.org. November 3: Financial crime conference, Fraud Advisory Panel, London. www.fraudadvisorypanel. org. A visit to crime and punishment Do you ever feel like spending time in old police cells, or an exercise yard? Cognitive behavioural therapy may help you. Or you could go to a new museum in Lincolnshire. The former divisional police station in Gainsborough has since become the Old Nick Theatre (makes sense) and now a Crime and Punishment museum. It’s funded by the Gainsborough Theatre Company and the National Emergency Services Museum (yes, there is such a thing, at another former police station, in Sheffield). Organisers say that ‘the interactive element of the displays’ are still being set up, so entry is half price meanwhile. They don’t say if interactive includes such items as wooden batons and stocks. You never know, they may come back into fashion. November 9: National Association of Healthcare Security (NAHS) annual conference, Birmingham www.nahs.org.uk. November 15-17: SICUREZZA, Italian trade fair, Milan. www.sicurezza.it/en. November 29-30: UK Security Expo, Olympia. www.uksecurityexpo.com. 2018 January 21-23: Intersec 2018, Dubai. www.intersecexpo.com. March 3: Worshipful Company spring ball, London. www.wcosp.org. March 6-7: Security and Counter Terror Expo, Olympia. www.counterterrorexpo. com. April 10-12: AUCSO, annual university security heads conference, Southampton Solent. www.aucso.org.uk. April 18-20: ASIS Europe 2018 conference-exhibition, The Hague. www. asiseurope.org. May 12: ABI (Association of British Investigators) AGM, Brighton. www.theabi. org.uk. June 5-7: Infosecurity Europe, London Olympia, 2017 event pictured below. www. infosecurityeurope.com. June 19-21: IFSEC 2018, Excel London Docklands. www.ifsec.co.uk. June 25-27: SDW 2018, Security Document World, London SW1. www.sdwexpo. com. September 25-28: Security Essen, Germany. www. security-essen.de. October 17: Fencex exhibition. www.fencex.com l See fuller list of events on our website: www. professionalsecurity.co.uk/ events. And for events as they’re announced, sign up on the website to our regular email newsletter. And throwing rotten fruit and veg at criminals would be impeccably environmentally-frindly. Droning on The public need to be aware that if we identify them as flying drones in restricted areas then they could be prosecuted, Northumbria Police said last month. Has any drone user been caught so far for piloting his machine beyond his line of sight, or too near helicopters, aircraft, airports and airfields?! Even if the public nod at such warnings, drone users will understand that the police are making an empty threat. What practically can police or any guard force do - buy a patrol car with a sun roof, to better scan the sky while on patrol?! Carry a Taser or a net with a long handle? 8 SEPTEMBER 2017 PROFESSIONAL SECURITY www.professionalsecurity.co.uk
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