SIR – I write in response to the News Update item in Security Management Today’s July edition entitled ‘Childs set to establish Security Confederation’ (p9).

I am at a total loss as to why Richard Childs feels it necessary to invent yet another organisation for the security industry when we have just seen the Joint Security Industry Council fail, and while we have a perfectly healthy and very well respected representative in the form of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA).

On reading this section of News Update, it would appear that the objectives of the Confederation of the British Security Industry (CBSI) are already excellently provided for by the BSIA and the Security Industry Training Organisation (SITO). Indeed, a cynic may say that the aims of the CBSI are at best a substantially diluted perception of the vast achievements of the BSIA and SITO.

Surely at a time when the security industry is undergoing its greatest challenge, the last thing we need is another cheap alternative to an already established and unified voice.

Come on, Richard. Use your wealth of knowledge to further unify the industry rather than attempt to divide it.

Tony Cockroft MBA, Commercial Director, Advance Security (UK)

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