Advisory Board and Regular Contributors 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 “Working late again! And must you keep bringing your work home with you?” Calendar Training Tavcom Training, Hampshire: November courses include security consultancy (20- 24), project management (13-17), body worn video (14), introduction to cyber security (15). www.tavcom.com. This month November 3: Financial crime conference, Fraud Advisory Panel, London. www. fraudadvisorypanel.org. November 7-8: First Major Event Safety and Security Conference, co-organised by Interpol, Dubai. www.regonline.com/ stadia2017. November 9: National Association of Healthcare Security (NAHS) annual conference, central Birmingham www.nahs. org.uk. November 15: Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Forum annual conference, Leeds. www.yhff.co.uk. November 15-17: SICUREZZA, Italian trade fair, Milan. www.sicurezza.it/en. November 16: ACFE UK annual fraud prevention conference, London. www. acfeuk.co.uk. Also; next Association of Security Consultants business group meeting, London EC1Y. securityconsultants.org.uk. November 20: next meeting, City of London Crime Prevention Association, subject: travel safety with British Transport Police. www.cityoflondoncpa.org.uk. November 29-30: UK Security Expo, London Olympia, see below. www. uksecurityexpo.com. Arts and antiquities re-locate The International arts and antiquities security forum (IAASF) has re-located to UK Security Expo, at Olympia Grand Hall, pictured. Topics include emergency planning, fire protection, counter-terrorism, places of worship, and ‘target hardening’. Speaking of terror, Det Supt David Roney, Deputy National Co-ordinator Protect and Prepare at National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters is to give an update on the Project Argus training scheme, for stadiums. And Julian Enoizi, CEO of Pool Re is updating on terrorism re-insurance. 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, Rotterdam. www. asiseurope.org. April 26: Retail Risk - London. www. retailrisk.com. May 12: ABI (Association of British Investigators) AGM, Brighton. www.theabi. org.uk. June 5-7: Infosecurity Europe, London Olympia. www.infosecurityeurope.com. June 19-21: IFSEC 2018, Excel London Docklands, pictured. www.ifsec.co.uk. June 25-<strong>27</strong>: 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. Local, London speakers are Tom Willis, Security Director - Heathrow; Barry Palmer, Head of Security and Safety at Tate Gallery; Chris Tsikolis, Police and Security Manager - Victoria Business District; and Jonathan Schulten, Associate Director, Head of Security and Resilience - Broadgate Estates. Speaking on hotels are Paul Moxness, VP, Corporate Safety and Security for Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group; and Simon Harris, Director of Security, Dorchester Collection. Other speakers include Alaric Bonthron, the retired senior Met Police man now Head of Security at Kings College London. No chance wasted to have a go ... The Met and City of London Police forces do not waste chances to have a go at each other. Opening his talk at the Security Institute conference, City Commissioner Ian Dyson spoke of the Met attitude that they could police the City with a ‘sergeant and a couple of constables’. To that Dyson added: “You probably could police it with a sergeant and a couple of constables, you would just do it really badly.” ... and you can go out even in old age And talking of cities, there’s not as much talk as there once was of fear of crime - maybe actual crime is so bad that simply fearing it isn’t worth worrying about any more. But if it still is, older people stereotypically say that they are scared to go out at night. Yet research led by Dr Liam Satchell, of the University of Portsmouth’s Department of Psychology, suggests that older people are as good as young adults at knowing when someone is potentially aggressive, and being streetwise appears to be a skill honed in childhood but not fully reliable until adulthood. Satchell said: “The results could encourage older people to recognise they are street smart, that their gut instincts are spot on. When walking down a street late at night, people may feel concerned about the threat posed by an approaching person. They may cross a street or change their behaviour and might even stop going out. There could be lots of factors which might make an older person frightened of being a victim of crime, but research on the relationship between age and fear of crime isn’t clear-cut. It’s likely to be influenced by many factors, including the type of crime feared, gender and a person’s belief in their ability to defend themselves.” Previous research already showed that simply watching someone walk tells a great deal about the likelihood of them being aggressive. Even when researchers simulated a shadowy outline of a person at a distance, people could readily recognise a potential aggressor. Dr Satchell is suggesting that feelings of threat and intimidation are reliable at telling us how aggressive other people are, and this skill improves gradually in childhood, reaches its peak in adulthood, and doesn’t decline. 8 NOVEMBER 2017 PROFESSIONAL SECURITY www.professionalsecurity.co.uk p08 calendar <strong>27</strong>-11.indd 1 11/10/2017 11:57
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