Improving the development of positive life skills for offenders is central to successfully preventing further offences being committed. The significant role that personal issues such as substance misuse, living arrangements and education, training and employment play...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...