SJUK Exclusive: What can we expect from Protect Duty?

Non-Executive Director of Counter Terrorism for Carlisle Support Services, Nick Aldworth, shares his view on the government’s response to the UK Protect Duty consultation. After the government’s representative from the Homeland Security Group (formerly the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism) gave their final evidence to the Manchester Arena Inquiry, the ensuing, ferocious questioning perhaps […]

Exclusive: A duty to protect

Philip Ingram MBE assesses the initial findings of the Manchester Inquiry and the impact they will have on public space security. As the summer season kicks in, one of the things we can be certain of is that COVID lockdown restrictions continue to impact major events and public spaces. Crowds are restricted, many events cancelled, […]

Manchester Arena inquiry highlights security failings

The inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing has found that security failings on the night resulted in several “missed opportunities” before the attack and that it is “highly likely” that more lives could have been saved. In the first of three reports from the inquiry, Chairman, Sir John Saunders said the arena’s operator SMG, security […]