Security Management Today's readers will be interested to learn that ARC's highly impressive client list (The Boots Company, BP, Canary Wharf Management, Nokia, Reliance Security and Securicor Guarding, to name but a few) is backed up by a wide-ranging and challenging array of learning programmes.
General security management
Running over five days at the ARC Training Centre in Goring-on-Thames, Reading in April and November, 'Security Co-Ordination and Management' is designed to provide full-time managers – and those for whom security is one of a number of key job functions – with the knowledge and confidence necessary to manage a successful loss prevention operation.
A practical mix of workshops, lectures, discussions and exercises (during which delegates will be tasked with solving typical security problems) looks at everything from measuring risk, surveying, the physical security of perimeters and buildings to access control, intruder detection, lighting for CCTV, manned security, dealing with emergency procedures and IT security issues.
Staying with the corporate security management theme, the ten-day course entitled 'Security Management and Asset Protection' is equally suited to current practitioners or those just joining the fray from a police or services background. Run in May and October (taking in visits to IFSEC and Securex), the course "will enable delegates to use a range of risk management and security design tools to enhance their organisation's ability to protect its assets."
Risk analysis and loss prevention (asset identification and risk treatment), threat sources and the nature of crime (including employee crime, theft, burglary, fire and assault), terrorism and bombing, leadership and motivational skills and computer security are just some of the areas covered here.
On top of providing an excellent grounding in basic skills, attendance also counts towards the award of ARC Training's Risk Management Diploma in Security Management.
Catering for seniority and strategists
Another course in the general stream is that of 'Senior Security Management'. Completed over an intensive eight days, this residential course at the ARC Training Centre is perfectly tailored to experienced security professionals who are perhaps looking to expand their knowledge. It's very much an advanced programme of learning designed to "allow delegates to return to their organisations with the confidence to develop their roles as security managers."
A practical mix of workshops, lectures, discussions and exercises covers everything from measuring risk, surveying and the physical security of buildings to intruder detection, lighting for CCTV and the protection of IT systems
Many of the sessions are presented by guest speakers, who will talk about the techniques of good management and meeting organisational goals, measuring exposures (which outlines the formulation of decision matrices, and how to use security surveying as a management tool), crisis management, impact and recovery, security technology (selecting systems, and measuring their costs and benefits) and kidnap risk reduction and responses.
Also offered in the general series of courses is 'Strategic Security Management'. A new addition to ARC's range and taught over five days, it's aimed at delegates who may have completed the 'Senior Security Management' course (or who hold the ASIS CPP qualification).
Assuming that delegates already have a thorough knowledge of the day-to-day management of security, the course addresses five key areas of both critical and topical importance – namely the planning and budgeting of security resources (always a tricky area), corporate responses to terrorism, protecting key company personnel, crisis management planning and preparation and the investigation of industrial espionage.
Targeting the specialist practitioner
ARC Training also offers a wide range of specialist management courses covering targeted subject areas.
The two-day course entitled 'Bomb Threat Risk Management', for instance, is designed for those who are responsible for formulating and executing responses to the threat posed by terrorist bombings (primarily within a corporate environment). Delegates will have the opportunity to examine at first hand typical components used to construct improvised explosive devices, and will learn – by way of lectures, real life case studies and desk top exercises – how to reduce their organisation's exposure to losses caused by such incidents.
Loss prevention managers and their staff are increasingly being called upon to conduct internal investigations, of course. Often, the purpose will be to establish that a crime has been committed prior to calling the police. On other occasions, the investigation will be in support of internal disciplinary procedures.
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Postscript
Further information can be obtained direct from ARC Training's general manager Janet Ward (tel: 01386 765841, or e-mail: janetward@arc-tc.com). Alternatively, take a look at each course on ARC's web site (www.arc-tc.com)
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