Martin Gill attended the Annual ASIS Conference and Exhibits held this year in Chicago. Martin is Chair of the Research Council which is seeking to promote security research to ASIS members and bring awareness of research undertaken within ASIS to the outside world....
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Bundled vs Single Service Security: A Discussion
This month we released a new report based on interviews with suppliers and procurers of security services that looks at the benefits and drawbacks of providing security as a ‘single service’ or as part of a ‘bundle’ alongside other facilities management services. The...
Our New Tunbridge Wells Office
Perpetuity is pleased to open another office in the south. This provides us with an opportunity to be closer to our clients in London and the south east and to meet new ones. The address of our new office is: 11a High Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1UL. You can...
The NEW Security Institute Certificate in Security Management BTEC Level 3 goes live!
The Security Institute’s Certificate in Security Management BTEC Level 3 has been rewritten and updated to keep abreast of the latest developments in the security sector. With new modules such as ‘Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management’ and ‘Strategic Security’ the...
The role of leadership in promoting ethical police behaviour
Leadership is consistently identified as one of the most important aspects to maintaining police integrity and ensuring police professionalism. Identified weaknesses include lack of supervisory presence, superior officers not setting common standards, and supervisors...
Home Office – Commercial Victimisation Survey
Martin Gill is on the advisory committee for the commercial victimisation survey, which has reported and indeed planning is underway for the next wave. The 2012 Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) is the first of a new series of Home Office surveys covering crime...
R£TAIL LOSS PREVENTION SUMMIT 2013
Tuesday 10th September 2013 The Cavendish Conference Centre, London WC1 A one-day conference Cost-effective loss prevention strategies and solutions – striking a balance between revenue maximisation and fraud loss exposure...
The Police Foundation’s Annual Conference
The Police Foundation's Annual Conference on "Policing organised crime - Changing landscape, changing practice" will be held on Tuesday 5 November 2013 at the BT Auditorium and Customer Showcase, London. Concern about serious organised crime, which is costly, harmful...
Security Excellence Awards Finalist
The finalists have been announced for the Security Excellence Awards 2013. We are delighted to announce that Perpetuity Research have once again been selected as a finalist in the category of 'Security Partnering Initiative' of the Year. This is for our work on the...
Charlotte is expecting a baby.
Congratulations to our Researcher, Charlotte Howell, who is about to go on maternity leave. We will miss Charlotte enormously. The baby is due in August and we will keep you informed through the newsletter. I am sure you will join us in wishing Charlotte and...
We are moving the Security Strategy Toolkit
Since 2009 our popular Security Strategy Tookit has been accessible online as web-based toolkit. The toolkit was developed due to the finding that surprisingly few organisations have a security strategy in place – and even less have an effective strategy. This toolkit...
What is ‘excellence’ in security?
The focus of the new Security Research Initiative (SRI) topic this year, is to look at how to define and recognise ‘excellence’ in the field of security. We want to know: What is an excellent security company? What does an excellent security contract look like? What...
Home Office publish detailed Commercial Victimisation Survey findings
Professor Martin Gill was part of an advisory team on the 2012 Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS), for which the Home Office recently published their detailed findings. These built on their headline findings released in January. The CVS was previously carried out...
Current issues in security: Manned Guarding
One of our latest Security Research Initiative (SRI) reports was recently referenced in an article for IFSEC Global on whether security guards are becoming unvalued. Our report ‘The Security Sector in Perspective’ looks at how those working in the security sector view...
Reducing re-offending through employment
There has long been a link identified between employment and offending. The desistence literature suggests that gaining legitimate paid work can reduce offending behaviour. There are a number of reasons why this may be the case, including, that employment distracts...
Situational Crime Prevention and Supply Chain Security
Martin Gill is editor of the ASIS Foundation's 'CRISP' series, which stands for 'Connecting Research in Security to Practice'. And the tenth report in the series has just been published. It is called Situational Crime Prevention and Supply Chain Security, and it is...
Smoking cessation work with Looked After Children
Perpetuity is currently conducting an evaluation of work undertaken in one local area, to support Looked After Children living in residential care homes, to stop smoking. Care home staff face a number of difficulties in enforcing no smoking rules to provide smoke-free...
Perpetuity present talks at IFSEC
With less than two weeks to go, we are delighted to announce that this year as well as exhibiting at the event (come and see us on stand J128), we are presenting two talks at IFSEC on Monday 13th May, and we very much hope you will join us: Our director, Martin Gill,...
Reflections on ASIS International conference
Earlier this month was the 12th ASIS International European Security Conference and Exhibition in Gothenburg Sweden. The conference provided a comprehensive education programme covering a range of topics from animal rights extremism, to cyber security, to the Syrian...
Perpetuity Training Manager joins the Security Institute
Our Training Manager - Dr Amy Burrell - has recently been accepted as a full Member of the Security Institute (SyI). She says “I am delighted to have achieved full Membership of the Security Institute. I have already been to an excellent regional event in Leicester...
The Training Platform blog has moved
Regular readers of our Training Platform blog might be wondering where it has gone. Never fear, it has not disappeared and is now available on the IFSEC Global website. Click here to read the March 2013 edition entitled "Myths about tutors". All previous posts are...
Working with ACPO CPI on Crime Prevention
At the end of February we attended the ACPO Secured by Design 2013 CPDA (Crime Prevention and Design Advisors) Training Event. CPDAs are based within police forces across the country and provide specialist advice on the principles of Secured by Design and designing...
Perpetuity Research to visit CTX
This year we are exhibiting for the first time at Counter Terror Expo, 24th - 25th April, Olympia, London. Come and visit us on stand L10 - we are looking forward to catching up with our colleagues in the security industry as well as meeting some new contacts, and of...
Counting down to IFSEC
It is now less than two months until IFSEC returns on the 13th to the 16th May 2013. This year as a celebration of their 40th year, IFSEC are developing their education offering and the brand new IFSEC Academy offers free education at their global events, and beyond,...
Free Access to Security Journal during April!
From April 1-30, 2013 Palgrave Macmillan is offering free online access to all its journals, including Security Journal. If you have not had a chance to sample the journal we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. We also encourage you to spread the word...
13th March – National No Smoking Day
Today is national No Smoking Day and www.wequit.co.uk offer a range of resources to support smokers to quit. Perpetuity has a particular interest in smoking prevention and cessation initiatives - as part of our Healthy Communities research strand - we have undertaken...
Free access to Safer Communities journal articles until Sunday 17th March 2013
Articles from the Safer Communities journal are freely available until Sunday 17th March Recent popular articles: What we did when it happened: a timeline analysis of the social disorder in London - Daniel Briggs Risk, prevention and early intervention:...
Perpetuity Training Launches ‘News’ Page
Keep up to date with all Perpetuity Training’s news via our recently launched ‘News’ page. The page includes announcements, appointments, and course updates. So if you want to find out who/what has recently received a Security Excellence Award, which course has...
Multi-million dollar diamond heist highlights airport security failure
Robbery prompts calls for renewed focus on perimeter protection By CHRIS YATES for COUNTER TERROR EXPO Airport perimeter security is under scrutiny again, following a reported $67 million diamond robbery at Brussels Zaventem. The heist occurred within the supposedly...
Martin Gill 13th most influential person in Security & Fire
To celebrate their 40th anniversary IFSEC International has compiled a list of the 40 people they consider to be the most influential in the global security and fire industries. Our Director, Martin Gill, was placed 13th. Over a decade since starting Perpetuity...