You Are a Security Management Professional – Now Underscore It with an Accredited Certificate

For the full-time security manager ARC offers two options: university-accredited, interactive and highly-participatory security management courses (which can lead into an optional MSc programme), or prepartion courses for the ASIS CPP certification.

Forthcoming university-accredited (postgraduate NQF Level 7) courses include (clickable links):

Security Management Stage 1, 2-13 August
Security Management Stage 2, 28 June – 9 July
Security Management Stage 3, 10-21 May

CPP certification can be achieved by following the ARC/Chapter 208 combined distance-learning/residential programme, or by attending the two-week intensive CPP crammer programme, 12 -23 July.

If you have a particular interest in terrorism, the Countering Hostile Reconnaissance and Counter Terrorism Course, 24-28 May, led by two UK police-trained counter terrorism security specialists, is highly recommended.

For those who are required to conduct investigations, ARC has three options:

Investigating and Interviewing Skills, 25-28 October
Advanced Investigations Techniques, 7-11 June
ASIS Professional Certified Investigator (PCI), 23-27 August (distance learning beginning May)

If your work requires you to survey, the very practical (site-based) Security Surveying and Design Course, 20-24 September, is recommended, and you will receive a BTEC level 4 award upon successful completion.

If you have to specify and procure technical security systems, then you should consider the ASIS PSP certification, for which distance learning begins in July.

If you are specifically interested in security risk mitigation in the oil and gas sector, then you should consider the Managing Security Risks in the Oil and Gas Sector Course, 16-20 August.

Those with a crisis management and business continuity remit should consider the Crisis and Business Continuity Management Course, 22-24 June, delivered by Barry Vincent, who was the lead in this area for one of the UK’s biggest and most successful companies.

Finally, if you have reached the pinnacle of security management, or have completed Security Management Stages 1-3, have a security management degree, or CPP, challenge yourself to participate in the very practical one-week BurrillGreen Masterclass in Strategic Security Management, 4-8 October, where you will be put through your paces across a range of “board engagement” scenarios under the guidance of two former multinational corporate heads of security. A unique opportunity – a unique challenge.

As always, Janet will be happy to provide all the details of any of ther above pogrammes.

Airport Security Guard Quizzed Over Scanner Abuse Claims

Source: Sun Online

A Heathrow security man was quizzed by police after ogling a girl colleague "naked" in a new anti-terror body scanner.

Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, after he took her picture with the X-ray gadget and made a lewd comment.

She had entered the X-ray machine by mistake - and was horrified when Laker pressed a button to take a revealing photo.

Laker, who faces the sack, was the first airport worker to be caught abusing the controversial new devices, which have been branded illegal by civil rights groups who fear abuse by security guards.

UK Employers Urged to Review Whistleblowing Policies

Source: Workplace Law Network

Employers are being urged to review their approach to whistleblowing allegations in light of the UK Government's planned changes to the law next month, according to Workplace Law Network.

From 6 April, the current bar on Employment Tribunals revealing any details of whistleblowing allegations outside of the tribunal process is to be lifted. As a result, tribunals will be able to refer such claims to the relevant regulatory authority, such as the Serious Fraud Office or Health and Safety Executive, for investigation.

ARC offers a number of investigations courses, including:

Preparation Programme for the ASIS PCI (Professional Certified Investigator) Certification, beginning May 2010 with distance learning. For details, click here.

Investigating and Interviewing Skills (Based on UK Law), 25-28 October. For details click here.

Advanced Investigations Techniques, 7-11 June. For details click here.

CCTV Feature: New Instructional CCTV Video - Download Link

A basic, but very good, new educational video on CCTV has been produced by the FBI. View or download from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Oj2FDwLXs

Migrating to New Access Card Technology

Migrating to new access control card technology? Have you considered multiple technology cards to bridge the gap between different types of card reader systems? For details go to:

http://www.hidglobal.com/page.php?page_id=162

Card technology is one of many technical security subjects covered ARC’s Preparation Programme for the ASIS PSP (Physical Security Professional) certification. The next programme begins in July with distance learning, leading up to a residential programme. For more information or to enrol, contact David.

ASIS Security Toolkit

Great resources at:

http://www.asisonline.org/toolkit/toolkit.xml

Test Your Knowledge

1.Hydraulic defences used to protect facility entrances against hostile moving vehicles should be designed to stop a vehicle up to what weight and moving at what speed?

2.Protected areas within a perimeter should be illuminated to what minimum level?

3.When specifying lighting for a fog-prone area, which is the better option: Sodium Vapour or Mercury Vapour?

4.The rule that determines the importance of evidence and its ability to prove a point is called?

5.There are three broad threats to sensitive information: inadvertent disclosure, deliberate theft by an outsider, and deliberate theft by an insider. Of these, which is the major reason for the loss of sensitive information?

6.What is meant by the term “dumpster diving”?

7.At what intervals should emergency plans be audited?

8.Emergency succession plans need to reflect the anticipated normal management succession; true or false?

9.There are two types of safes, burglary resistant and what else?

10.In mitigating explosive blasts, what is the name given to the distance between an asset and the threat?

For the answers to these, and many more, questions about security, sign up to the CPP Intensive Development Programme, UK, 12-23 July 2010. For details go to: http://www.arc-tc.com/pages/asis_cpp_psp.asp#cpp