There’s great value in understanding others There’s a great scene in the film The Last Samurai, when Katsumoto, played by Ken Watanabe, greets Tom Cruise’s character Nathan Algren for the first time. Short as it is, we see the importance Read more…
Life Skills – Habitualising your New Year Resolutions By the time you read this post you may have already failed in your New Year Resolution. If so, you will not be alone. Research by ABC News in the US suggested Read more…
Banner photo by Sam Balye on Unsplash 5 tips every Head Teacher should tell their pupils before the Summer With the summer holidays a matter of days away, every Head Teacher will be looking to wish their pupils a safe and happy summer Read more…
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 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 Read more…
Developing Skills to help you Succeed We’re changing the way we do things this year. Every Tuesday we will be publishing a blog post to help you develop your security approach as an individual and someone responsible for others. Some Read more…
Building awareness in primary age children During a recent presentation to a group of school governors I was asked, “at what age can you start sharing street safe awareness skills with children?” The governor represented a primary school and was Read more…
How to keep control of your emotions as the weather boils As the UK issues its first ever red warning for extreme heat, experts have regularly warned of the physical risk to ourselves, our animals and, our properties, all brought Read more…
Female Safety on Public Transport Public transport is an essential service that provides individuals with access to work, to an education and to all of life’s opportunities. Many females, sadly however, have a real safety concern about using public transport 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 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 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 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 Read more…
When your community, or country, comes out of the lockdown there are going to be a lot of people who are greatly relieved to have come out of a very stressful time in their lives. They may already have been 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 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 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 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 Read more…
For eight months, in 2015-2016, I worked in Sierra Leone as a part of the British Government effort to help the country overcome its deadly Ebola virus outbreak. My specific job was to work with their Office of National Security, 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 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, Read more…
unsplash-logoYou X Ventures When did you last find yourself questioning how you had responded to some event? “I wish I hadn’t said that”, or “I responded badly”, are both common internal monologues. The answer for many of us will be, Read more…
Did you know that there are at least: That is a lot of vehicles, so with all of that choice out there, why should anybody target yours? There are two parts to the answer. Thieves may be stealing to order Read more…
Oh yes, it’s the time of year when we not only pause to celebrate, but also to think about who we are and what we want to be going forward. It’s 2020 New Year Resolution time. Well here’s 5 commitments 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 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 Read more…
Earlier today the UK government lifted its travel advice against visiting Sharm el Sheikh including the airport and the areas of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq. That’s good news both for tourists and the tourist Read more…