Campaigns

We at Skills for Security would like to congratulate Security Management Today on your joint campaign with Infologue.com entitled Four Issues, One Voice, and would very much like to add our voice to the swelling chorus of support you are no doubt beginning to attract.

As chairman of the UK Chapter. I am mindful that with over 700 members in the UK, drawn from a cross section of the security community, I cannot claim that my comments represent the views of the entire membership; they are very much my personal opinions. I would ask ASIS members to join in the [...]

The Security Institute welcomes the Four Issues, One Voice campaign, which looks at a number of important strands in the current bid to regulate the industry.

David Dickinson, Chief Executive of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) announced that the BSIA is supporting the Four Issues One Voice Campaign of the SMT and Infologue.com.

Regulation does not have to mean burdensome red tape. SMT and Infologue.com want the industry’s practitioners and companies to bring to the attention of the SIA – and indeed ourselves – those areas where they feel the regulatory process could become more efficient without any loss of integrity.

SMT and Infologue.com feel the SIA must look at ways to ensure that security officers who have paid for their licenses in good faith prior to 20 March 2006 are not disadvantaged in relation to those licensed on or after the deadline day.

At present, the SIA’s Board does not include any representation from the security profession. If the Regulator intends to “do regulation with the industry, and not to it” – words that have been spoken many times by SIA employees