Crime and Security Research
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 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 […]
Read moreOn 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 1999. The Master is on the ball, clearly very engaged and enjoying the responsibilities of leading the charge […]
Read moreLast 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 Prevention team. Martin also gave a breakfast briefing in which he reported on some of the issues that […]
Read moreYesterday 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 security functions within business. He felt that the Police Crime Commissioners may provide an opportunity to increase […]
Read moreToday 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 for this role. With 350 delegates, 30 exhibitors and 15 speakers I am sure this has been a […]
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