News & Updates
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...
Top up your skills – join our investigation and interviewing course
Angus Darroch-Warren's excellent BTEC Level 4 course in Workplace Investigation and Interviewing is running in Leicester on 22-26th April 2013. Written and delivered by a qualified trainer with extensive practical police experience, this course has been tailor-made to...
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...
Municipal Policing in the European Union
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,...
Martin Gill discusses CCTV on BBC Local Radio
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...
IFSEC international returns to the NEC Birmingham, UK, 13-16 May 2013.
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...
Survey on single and bundled security provision
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...
Counter Terror Expo 2013
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 moving!
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...
Hooray for BTECs
Formal qualifications, as opposed to attendance only courses, are growing in popularity. This is not surprising as people strive to evidence base their knowledge and skills. The obvious choice for many people is University, and whilst it is true that there is a wide...
Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform
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...
School Based Smoking Prevention Project
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...
Action Fraud Scheme
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...
Home Office announces new support to tackle gang and youth violence
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...
Sharing Personal Information Online
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...
Martin Gill speaking at SyI Christmas Curry Night
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...
Crash for Cash Insurance Fraud – Don’t be a victim
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...
Martin Gill speaking at Retail Fraud on the Road
SASMA Business Security Conference
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...
The Security Excellence Awards
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...