OUT NOW: A new addition to the Crime Prevention and Security Management series Municipal Policing in the European Union. Daniel Donnelly applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting that in the future,...
If you missed Martin Gill discussing CCTV on BBC Local Radio on Wednesday 13th March you can listen again by playing the YouTube video embedded above. It was great to hear a caller from Leicester where Perpetuity Research is based. Martin has been heavily involved in...
This year Perpetuity Research will once again be exhibiting at the event. IFSEC attracts more than 650 leading solution providers, from 100 countries. It provides access to 7 free education theatres that make up the IFSEC Academy, and attracts 24,000 attendees...
Today we are launching a survey to explore a much debated issue - the relative pros and cons of procuring and managing security as a single service, as opposed to bundling it with other FM service provision. The work is part of a major study to better understand the...
This year, Perpetuity is delighted to be exhibiting at Counter Terror Expo as part of their international event to mitigate threats, protect against terrorist attacks and understand current modern day risks, in a secure environment. We see this as an excellent...
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...
OUT NOW: A new addition to the Crime Prevention and Security Management series Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform. Author Paul Almond has written an innovative account of the international emergence of corporate manslaughter offences to criminalise deaths in...
Smoking 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...
Four 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 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...
Perpetuity 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...
For 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...
Prof. 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...
Today 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...
On 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...
On Tuesday evening Martin Gill attended The Worshipful Company of Security Professionals dinner at Fishmonger's Hall, a beautiful building on the river Thames. It was a very busy evening that highlighted just how far the Company has come since its humble beginning in...
Yesterday our Director, Martin Gill gave a talk on the state of the security sector in which he pointed to both positive trends, not least the growing perception that contract security providers can deliver, and less positive ones, the relatively low status of...
Last week our Director, Martin Gill, chaired the Retail Fraud 'On The Road' Conference in Leicester. He reported back on a wide array of very good speakers reflecting on such diverse topics as learning from the Olympics to issues involved in centralising a Loss...
With less than two weeks to go until the Security Excellence Awards we are getting quite excited. The Security Research Initiative is a finalist in the Security Partnering Initiative of the Year category. Having been nominated a number of times for this in the past...
Today Perpetuity's Director, Professor Martin Gill chaired the Retail Fraud 'On The Road' Conference at the King Power Stadium in Leicester. Having published 13 books and over 100 articles as well as being the editor of Security Journal Martin is excellently suited...
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