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G15 decides against stamp duty legal action
The 15 largest developing housing associations in London have decided against taking legal action against the Inland Revenue over unpaid stamp duty.
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Birmingham must transfer 27,000 homes, says report
Small housing organisations and more government cash are needed, commission finds
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Archive TitlesSector specifics
This year's SITO National Training Conference marked a watershed moment for the industry's former NTO. With long-time chief executive Raymond Clarke recently departed, and the move to Sector Skills Council status in obeyance, there was much speculation as to what the future may hold. We travelled to the National Motorcycle ...
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Sainsbury's strategic response to retail security training provision
We examine a strategic corporate response to training needs in the retail arena.
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Archive TitlesIn Perpetuity
Having spent a decade fashioning The Scarman Centre into the UK's foremost seat of learning for the would-be security managers of tomorrow, Professor Martin Gill has broken free to form a spin-out company dedicated to security research and consultancy for the private sector. We pay a visit to the University ...
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Setting up shop on your own
Setting up an independent company in the contract manned guarding sector is a dream for scores of private sector managers. Indeed, there have been many success stories over the years but plenty of pitfalls await those who have not carefully thought through their business development plans.
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SLAs and KPIs: the guarantors
Although Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators have become crucial to many commercial sectors, the security industry has been slow to catch on. As we suggest, it would be a good idea if clients and contractors alike were to buy into these performance management vehicles – which can help ...
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Insurance peaks and troughs must go... Year-on-year stability is vital
In the November edition of SMT, several of the leading security companies complained of huge price hikes for employers' liability and public liability insurance premiums. While insurance specialist John Ludley believes that contractors must examine their claims records before crying foul, there's also a feeling that insurance writers should adopt ...
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Recognition... at a glance
Controlling access to a given building or verifying a person's identity on site is key to providing a secure environment. That said, end users will not be wanting to install a system that requires lengthy (and potentially dangerous) procedures and which is subject to high error rate. So what's the ...
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JSIC Forum taking shape
'The Role of a Regulated Private Security Industry in Support of Counter-Terrorism and Crime Reduction' is the theme for next year's Joint Security Industry Council (JSIC) Forum which, for the first time, moves out of its London 'home' at Westminster's QEII Conference Centre – instead taking place at The Royal ...
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Archive TitlesSiemens targets UK security and fire sectors
Alarcom has a new identity following an announcement that the company is now trading as Siemens Building Technologies (SBT) Fire and Security Products.As a division of the £100 million-plus turnover Siemens Group, Fire and Security Products has been relocated from its London Colney offices to the SBT (UK) hq in ...
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Emerging from the wilderness?
With end users really beginning to look for a tangible return on their investments, there's likely to be a marked change in IT security solutions come the end of next year. According to John Todd, the new world order in 2003 will be driven by the desire for – and ...
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Health & Safety (Part Three): On display
With increasingly larger numbers of contract and in-house security operations reliant on computers these days, it's important for security and safety managers to get to grips with the law on how workstations should be configured. In other words, they should be reading the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations. ...
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Dispelling Windows insecurity
We take the underlying premise that the Windows software program is a secure operating system, and aims to show how complex security management processes (combined with businesses' failure to properly implement security features) have resulted in today's myriad system insecurities.
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IMO devises rules to tighten maritime security
International rules are being developed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that would commit Governments worldwide to co-operate in fighting the use of ships by terrorist groups – either on the high seas or when in port
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Archive TitlesTSI to develop new guidelines on guarding
The Security Institute (TSI) has announced its intention to develop a set of formal guidelines for the procurement and management of security guarding services – a move that will be welcomed by blue chip end users of security services.
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Archive TitlesSIA commissions PRCI for licensing research
PRCI is to conduct a full impact study of the costs and benefits associated with implementing the Private Security Industry Act
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Sectoral challenge
As 2002 draws to a close, the future for training provision in the UK's private security sector remains somewhat uncertain.
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To catch a data thief...
Just how important is computer-based evidence in today's commercial world? We take SMT's readers through some of the major reasons as to why security managers must take heed of the 'data thieves'