The “Open Season” is Underway

The 2007 UK “open season” of university-accredited security management training courses kicks off on 16th April with the two-week Security Management Stage 1 (Core Skills) Course. Led by Phil Wood CPP, the course will also include sessions conducted by David Cresswell CPP and Peter Horsburgh CPP, PSP.

One of the great attractions of these courses is the international, multi-sector networking and security management best practice sharing that occurs during the 10 days of training. With delegates from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Russian Far East, representing sector leaders in oil and gas, banking, logistics, property management, tobacco manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and security services, this course promises to be no exception.

For those considering study towards the Middlesex University MSc Work Based Learning (Corporate Security Management) this course constitutes the first of six modules.

An added bonus from this year is that delegates attending Security Management Stages 1, 2 and 3 courses will be sponsored to join The Security Institute, with application and first year membership fees paid by ARC.



An example of clients represented on the forthcoming Security Management Stage 1 Course is the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, one of the world’s biggest energy projects, and crucial to securing Russia’ s position as global energy supplier. To view SEIC's highly informative website with details on how the company is skilfully minimizing the environmental impact of Russia's first ever LNG plant, set to meet 8% of world demand, click on the link below:

http://www.sakhalinenergy.com/en/

The ARC Training International Academy for Security Management is proud to be associated with this project.

Long Distance Learning – Mahbubul Alam Choudhury

At the recent ASIS UK Certification Presentation Dinner, guest of honour Bruce George MP congratulated CPP certificants and called on other security professionals to embrace qualifications, accredited training and education in order to further enhance the professional image of security management.

Five thousand miles away in Bangladesh, the security managers of leading national and multinational companies have been doing just that. Having organised two weeks of university accredited security management training with ARC in 2006, the Bangladesh security manager network is preparing for a further four weeks of study with ARC this year.

One such manager is former Army Major Mahbubul Alam Choudhury, Deputy General Manager of GrameemPhone, Bangladesh’s biggest telecommunications operator with over 10 million subscribers. Having completed the first of six modules towards the ARC Training/Middlesex University MSc Work Based Learning (Corporate Security Management), Mahbubul is busy preparing for modules 2 and 3 this year, which will be delivered through ARC open training courses. Thereafter, Mahbubul will be transferred to Middlesex University as a distance learning student to complete his MSc. Not content with academic excellence, Mahbubul is also busy preparing for his CPP!

Security Coordination and Management Training in Dubai, 22-26 April

Phil is preparing for his first ARC trip to Dubai to conduct the highly popular Security Coordination and Management Course. Dubai is one of the fastest growing and most exciting places in the world. And, as has become custom with this annual “open” event, the venue will be in the world-famous seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel and is likely to attract participants from across the Arabian Gulf region and beyond. In previous years participants have travelled from as far way as the UK and Malaysia.

The course traditionally takes place in the conference room just under the famous helipad, providing magnificent views across Dubai and the new marine developments of The World and Palm Island.

A further, strategic level security management course will follow in Dubai 22-26 July.

David to Address National Security Conference in Prague

David Cresswell has been invited to address the Annual Security Conference of the Czech Republic Police Academy on the topic of Terrorism and Corporate Sector Responses, on 10 April 2007.

The conference, organised jointly by the Police Academy and the Czech Chapter of ASIS International, will be opened by the Interior Minister of the Czech Republic.

This year sees the introduction of a nationally-accredited Czech Diploma in Corporate Security Management, presented by Orange Group a.s., ARC Training's partner company in the Czech Republic.

Phil Speaks at ASIS International European Security Conference

Phil Wood gave a very well received presentation to the Berlin ASIS European Security Conference on the value of aligning security with best practices in risk management on Monday 26th March. The conference, at which ARC trainers are regular speakers, attracted 500 security professionals from all over Europe, the USA and beyond.

The increasing importance of rooting security management programmes in the fundamentals of risk analysis was reflected this week also in the concurrent activities of David and Peter. David has spent the week in Houston as a guest of one the world's largest and best-known private sector energy companies to facilitate a workshop on the global roll-out of this company's new risk security risk assessment methodology. A derivative of a methodology developed by the American Petroleum Institute, the security risk assessment tools and processes now being introduced by this company are truly world standard, against which other companies are sure to benchmark.

Peter, meanwhile, was left in the UK where he has been consulting to a major multinational pharmaceutical company to develop new security management systems and protocols, which includes the provision of a best practice security risk management methodology.