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 Mike Alexander, Chairman, ASIS UK Chapter Mike Alexander, Chairman of the ASIS UK Chapter, opened the meeting by giving thanks to the sponsor Emma Shaw of Esoteric and to the exhibitors for their contribution to the meeting.
Mike then handed over to our Patron Baroness Harris who proposed to re-elect the Chairman, Vice Chairmen and Treasurer.
Mike Alexander-Chairman, Mike Hurst- Vice Chair Strategic, Graham Bassett- Vice Chair Operations, and Craig Pickard - Treasurer were all unanimously re-elected.
The Chairman then looked back over 2011 and reviewed the achievements of the Chapter:
- A stand at Counter Terror Expo and Transport Security Expo
- ASIS speakers at National Association of Healthcare Security Conference, MSC Students at Portsmouth University, MSc Project Management Course at London Metropolitan University, Saudi Arabia Middle East and IFSEC conference ,SASIG Conference, Chief Security Officers (CSO) Summit, TINYg Conference, Get Safe Online Summit, RIBA Designing for Counter Terrorism Conference
- CPP Students of the ARC Training Course had a 100% success rate.
- The work done with the Programme Committee for the ASIS 11th European Security Conference & Exhibition.
Then the Treasurer reviewed the Chapter accounts for the year and requested that two or three major sponsors be found. The sponsors would be guaranteed excellent exposure and their contribution would then enable the seminar meeting fees to be reduced.
The theme of our first speaker, Don Randall MBE, was working in partnership.
The increasing level of uncertainty in the UK and austerity measures will drive further civil unrest for he thought the next 3 to 5 years. Corruption in the world could never be removed but we have to understand it and learn how to manage and deal with it.
Former City Commissioner, James Hart was quoted, "Policing is something you do with the community not to the community."
A practical example - Project Griffin - was based on excellent communication links and 1000 buildings are now linked and all of them could be updated in less than 30 minutes. With further police cuts of 23% partnerships with the private security sector was a necessity.
However Griffin was based on large corporates but as 95% of London business were Small & Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) the "Buddy Systems" will be implemented which would include The Wine Bar/Kiosk/Shop.
Partnerships based on Griffin and with a true element of trust had proved very successful and the model had now spread across the world.
The meeting continued with Paul Taylor of Welund who described how the movement of Greenpeace's three boats was continually studied as one of the services provided to subscribers of its on-line newsletter. This real-time intelligence enabled companies that may be targeted by the boats to make decisions based on the knowledge of how near or far they were from their assets. Using the data acquired over two years made it possible to assess how much of their time they spent on actions and how much time they have spent on other things.
The final speaker, Col. Graham Le Fevre, explained the challenges in operating Security in a Constrained Environment.
Security which involves protecting people, equipment and capability has to be balanced with reputation which involves protecting the brand, standing in society and political fallout.
The solution is risk management, prioritisation, devolving responsibility, common sense linked to education and effective use of manpower.
Finally, Mike Alexander thanked their host Nomura for providing such an excellent venue and to the speakers for well-presented and thought provoking topics.
By Tim Hodges, CPP, PSP
ASIS Chapter 208(UK) Committee Member
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