The horror of senseless attacks Yesterday, the 13th of June 2023, three wholly innocent people were killed, murdered, in Nottingham. While the police and the authorities are still trying to work out exactly what happened and why, it is clear that the victims were in the wrong place at the Read more…
5 Ways to Improve Your Travel Security Last week I sat down with an old friend, now the COO of a technology company. They had recently tried to open a new market in the Middle East and had in his words “bombed it”. Their team had misjudged the meetings culturally, Read more…
It’s nearly the New Year and driven by positive intent, many of us will be thinking about where we are in our lives and what we want to achieve in the next year. Will we change jobs, study for that extra qualification, finally do that marathon, learn Spanish or lose Read more…
Eight die in concert crowd On 5th November 2021 the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston Texas suddenly surged forward. Within minutes, eleven people suffered cardiac arrests through the crushing of the bodies. Although emergency services were able to recover them from the crowd, eight subsequently died of Read more…
This Saturday, 4 July 2020, pubs will re-open across England. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland this event will take place in the next few weeks. Alongside this much welcomed news there is an appeal for calm celebration, as police forces across England announce they will deploy additional patrols. It Read more…
“Stay Alert” is the new formal government advice for our next stage of the Coronavirus outbreak. It’s common sense some say, while others hold their hands up and exclaim they don’t know what that means. Well, in a world where we had to be re-taught how to wash our hands, Read more…
Since the Coronavirus Lockdown started, crime has changed, and not always in the way we may have expected. Some news would have it that crime has dropped, and that is a common perception, but this is only partially correct. You are now vulnerable in different ways and you need to Read more…
The government advice for the coronavirus outbreak is very clear. If you are not needed at work, or if you’re able to work from home, then you should stay at home. For those of us in that category, that means a period of at least three weeks, so far, with Read more…
Across the United Kingdom, everybody is now into self-isolation because of the Coronavirus outbreak. We are all directed to stay at home unless we are key workers, only to leave those homes for essential activities, like shopping, and to exercise once per day. The roads around the country are visibly Read more…
Coronavirus has changed the nature of how the UK operates over a few short weeks and many people are understandably frightened and worried by the huge uncertainty we all face. There has been fighting in the supermarket aisles over toilet rolls. Thousands of businesses have collapsed in 20 days. Tens Read more…
There is a home burglarly every 108 seconds somewhere in the UK. The Average cost of a residential burglary is £3,030 according to the ONS. That doesn’t include the emotional cost. It is estimated that somebody is at home during 58% of burglaries. Keeping your home secure is vital to Read more…
or, Why do so many politicians fail to understand where security capacity comes from? Across the United Kingdom there is a common belief that violent crime is a serious growing national problem. While statistics do not always support this belief, perceptions do guide action from those in power. The current Read more…
Preparing for the adventure of your life. Taking a gap year and travelling abroad is now more popular than ever. Every year approximately 250,000 18-25 year olds from the UK take some form of gap year. It is seen increasingly as a good thing to do. In fact, did you Read more…
We are community people, stronger and far more capable together than apart. The pack uses the strengths of its individuals to its best interests and shelters less capable more vulnerable members. Within this context we often sub consciously subscribe to the pack’s ability to make the best safety decisions on Read more…