PEOPLESAFE: Are You Ready for The Protect Duty Legislation?

In 2023, the UK Government will introduce new Protect Duty legislation, designed to improve the protection of publicly accessible places from terrorist attacks. The legislation is intended to ensure that businesses and organisations are better prepared to deal with – and respond to – serious incidents. Also known as ‘Martyn’s Law’, the proposed legislation has come about […]

Heald survey: only seven councils are ready for Protect Duty laws

Many local authorities in the UK have set aside no budget assigned to the pending “Protect Duty” regulations. The startling revelations emerged after requests made under freedom of information rules to councils. A study by Heald, makers of hostile vehicle mitigation systems, showed that only seven authorities had spent or intended to spend money on […]

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 […]

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 […]