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-<strong>12</strong>). www.tavcom.com. This month December 8: ASIS UK winter seminar, and AGM, London. www.asis.org.uk. December <strong>12</strong>: 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-<strong>12</strong>: 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 <strong>12</strong>: 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 for events as they’re announced, sign up on the website to our regular email newsletter. 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. 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