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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...
Incomplete
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
“It’s hard to project reassurance to the public
when these new boots are killing me.”
Don’t jump off a bridge
The insurance company Aviva last year
declined £85m in suspect, spurious or
fraudulent claims. Despite that good work,
keeping premiums down for genuine
customers, it can be easier, despite industry
talk of showing ‘zero tolerance’ to fraud, to
settle cases; except when claimants go on
reality game shows. A Salford woman was
recently given a suspended prison sentence at
Manchester Crown Court after admitting fraud.
She’d claimed that while working in a hotel
reception in October 2013, she injured her
lower back by helping to move laundry bags.
She was still off work when making the claim
in the February. The insurer asked in a private
investigation company. Her solicitors were
Calendar
Training
Tavcom Training, Hampshire: January
courses include gathering video evidence
(3-5), security consultancy (22-26), project
management (15-19), managing CCTV
control rooms (8-12). www.tavcom.com.
This month
December 8: ASIS UK winter seminar, and
AGM, London. www.asis.org.uk.
December 12: festive drinks, City of
London Crime Prevention Association.
www.cityoflondoncpa.org.uk. Also, Security
Institute Christmas party night.
2018
January 21-23: Intersec 2018, Dubai.
www.intersecexpo.com.
February 22: next Association of Security
Consultants (ASC) business group
meeting, London EC1Y.
securityconsultants.org.uk.
March 3: Worshipful Company of
Security Professionals spring ball,
London. www.wcosp.org.
March 6-7: Security and Counter Terror
Expo, Olympia. www.counterterrorexpo.
com.
March 14-15: Behavioural Analysis 2018
conference, Cardiff. www.
behaviouralanalysis.com
March 18-23: Light + Building, Frankfurt
trade show for building services.
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.
Campus truths
Paul Greatrix, Registrar of
Nottingham University, has
been blogging for years about
the odder and funnier crime
reports as written by his uni’s
security staff. Now he’s put
them together as True Crime
on Campus, with half of profits
going to charity. Scrooges can
read them for free on the
wonkhe.com (that’s wonks in
higher education) website. To
give a flavour: some stories of
drunks and sex suggest that
students have not changed with the years.
Or become any more sensible, judging by
the climbing of trees; vomiting and
urinating (and worse) in public; and
requiring first aid after microwave-related
asking for £6500. A tip-off meanwhile told Aviva
that the woman had appeared on the Channel
4 game show Coach Trip. She’d swung from a
bridge in Valencia, 19 days after the supposed
works accident. She’d signed a questionnaire,
four days after said accident, to say she had
no ill health. Quite a turn-around after she’d
been, so she said, bed-bound for two days.
Richard Hiscocks, Director of Casualty Claims
at Aviva, said the firm was already
investigating the claim, “but it is pretty rare that
the claimant goes out of their way to help us
with our investigations by bridge jumping on
national TV - just weeks after they were
injured.” He made the point that the woman
was also claiming benefits for her alleged
injuries. Aviva passed evidence to the City of
asiseurope.org.
April 26: Retail Risk -
London. www.retailrisk.
com.
May 12: ABI
(Association of British
Investigators) AGM, Brighton. www.theabi.
org.uk.
May 15-16: Institute of Money Laundering
Prevention Officers (IMLPO) conference,
Stratford upon Avon. www.imlpo.com.
May 28-30: Euro CACS, cyber-security
conference, Edinburgh. www.isaca.org.
June 5-7: Infosecurity Europe, London
Olympia. www.infosecurityeurope.com.
June 19-21: IFSEC 2018, Excel London
Docklands, pictured. www.ifsec.co.uk.
June 25-27: SDW 2018, Security
Document World, London SW1. www.
sdwexpo.com.
June 27: ASC annual lunch, RAF Club,
Piccadilly, London.
July 25-27: ASIAL 2018, annual Australian
exhibition and conference, Melbourne.
www.asial.com.au.
September 25-28: Security Essen,
Germany. www.security-essen.de.
October 11: Consec, annual conference of
the ASC, Heathrow Marriott.
October 17: Fencex exhibition. www.
fencex.com.
September 10-13, 2019: DSEI 2019,
London ExCeL. www.dsei.co.uk.
l See fuller list of events on our website:
www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/events. And
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accidents. Some reports are
plain weird. What of the two
men in a car who stopped a
woman on campus and
shook her hand and started
talking about religion in a
foreign language, while
wearing ‘IESU Grist’ t-shirts
(that’s Jesus in Welsh). As
with police and 999, some
reports make you wonder if
Security really needed to be
called. For instance the
student who had a mouse in
their residence, threw it out,
but it kept coming back in? Or the flat
resident who rang that their baby would
not stop crying? Or the students who
asked for (and got) a lift home after
dancing too much and their ankles hurt?
London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement
Department which made the prosecution.
It takes a team
Kevin White, CCTV operations manager for the
borough of Lambeth, has been around the
London local government CCTV scene for
about as long as anyone, as a founder and
chairman of the London CCTV Managers
Group in 1999. Before he spoke recently at a
Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s
conference, he wryly recalled that in 2014 he
was told that he might have to be replaced;
and was asked to write about his job. He listed
more than 50 projects he was at work on. The
answer came back that it would take a team to
do all that, so he kept his job. But did he get a
team? Professional Security asked. No.
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