Crime and Security Research
Perpetuity Training is excited to announce an office move. We are moving from our offices in Leicester to a new location in Wigston on Friday 1st February. Our new address is Unit 14 Cornwall Business Park, Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4XH. Less than one mile from South Wigston railway station and just 5 miles from the centre of Leicester, our new […]
Read moreSmoking kills an estimated 100,000 people a year in the UK, and about 50% of smokers are estimated as likely to die from smoking-related diseases (ash.org). There is also reported to be a great cost to society from smoking, both socially and financially as the health service takes the strain of this preventable cause of disease. At the cost of […]
Read moreFour police forces in the West Midlands have joined the Action Fraud scheme. Action Fraud is a service run by the National Fraud Authority whose job it is to co-ordinate the UK’s response to fraud. The purpose of the scheme is to act as a single point of contact for the public to report incidents of fraud, these are then […]
Read moreThe Home Office recently announced that they would be spending an additional £500,000 to help communities combat youth violence. They also announced the expansion of their Ending Gang and Youth Violence frontline team to cover four more priority areas. Gang culture is a major influence on knife crime, being a factor in as much as 60% of cases according to […]
Read morePerpetuity recently completed a piece of work for ALLOW, the London based information privacy company. In this small scale study, we spoke to an exoffender, with experience of exploiting personal information from online sources to commit fraud, in order to understand how personal information can be acquired from different sources, what types of information are desired and how they are used. We found that fraudsters can […]
Read moreFor the third year running Professor Martin Gill FSyI, Director of Perpetuity Research & Consultancy will be presenting the results from the annual SRI (Security Research Initiative) survey at The Security Institute’s Christmas Curry Night. You can read more about the research on ‘The state of the security sector: what those who work in security are saying about it’ here. […]
Read moreProf. Martin Gill recently spoke about the phenomenon of ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud on a video produced by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. This type of insurance fraud adds an estimated £50 to the annual insurance costs of individual policyholders. It can also be a contributing factor to organised crime, with the proceeds of insurance fraud funding more serious crime, […]
Read moreToday our Director, Martin Gill, is talking about how offenders beat security in a business environment at the 4th SASMA Business Security Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The conference will also feature talks on terrorism, the value of security, developments in the security management profession, and more. Below is a picture of Martin (centre left) with Christian Sachgau (Deutsche Telekom, left), Eduard […]
Read moreOn Wednesday evening we attended the Security Excellence Awards for which Perpetuity’s Security Research Initiative was a finalist for the category of Security Partnering Initiative of the Year. We have been nominated a number of times in the past for this category and hoped that this year would be our year. Sadly it was not to be and the award was […]
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