SIR – Over the past couple of years, Security Management Today (SMT) has become the journal for what is a growing and increasingly important security sector.

I have been involved with the industry for over ten years now and, while a number of other trade publications exist, SMT has become the most highly respected of them all in the marketplace. It is the one which ‘thinks’ about the issues, and is not a publication that seeks to sell copy by providing entertainment based on the trivial and superficial.

The journal is consistently interesting and varied in content. What makes it stand out from the others in the industry is just how much people think and talk about what it says. SMT is definitely helping the industry to move forward.

SMT’s evolution has not happened by itself. Rather, it has been masterminded by your good self. You have worked tirelessly and enthusiastically to produce a magazine which is eagerly awaited each month by those practitioners in the industry who really count.

The journal has been able to gather together an impressive team of regular contributors who, frankly, are people of today and tomorrow and not, as is the case with some other publications, the commentators of yesterday.

At a time when the media is not that highly regarded for everything it does, SMT stands out as a journal that is different. It knows its business and, while keen on stimulating debate, is always fair and balanced.

It also shies away from the easier route of publishing ‘juicy’ and superficially entertaining stories, yet still manages to be controversial and thought-provoking.

Through the pages of SMT, you constantly seek to help the industry come to terms with the great changes that have swept through it of late – licensing being a classic case in point – and to make the most of them. The publication is prepared to help practitioners move forward, even if they don’t have the will to do so.

Carry on the good work.

Richard Childs QPM, Managing Director The Community Safety Consultancy

Source

SMT