A momentous week of change and a new mood of global cooperation and alliance – that’s right, SIA chief Mike Wilson has been asked to step down, and Panasonic and Sanyo are looking into joining forces. Oh, and there was some election that happened in the US, too.
We’ve got all the latest on the Security Industry Authority story, where chief executive Mike Wilson has been shown the door after a couple of damaging reports showing security mess-ups within the Regulator itself, as well as the call for improvement from the National Audit Office. Our conference on The Threat Within seems more relevant and important by the day, wouldn’t ya say?
There’s up to the minute detail on the Panasonic and Sanyo ‘alliance’ discussion talks, and Brian Sims and John Honovich look into the potential security industry impact of the Obama presidency.
There are also the first two in a series of reports from the 2008 Skills for Security conference – and we’ll have all the coverage from our Next Generation CCTV conference as well.
The latest Bench Tests are available for your perusal – that’s the VDP20 dome from deView and the NVR-4000 from Plustek.
And in an effort to perk up the spirits of the SIA, this week’s Song About Security comes courtesy of smooth-voiced lotharios Warren G and Nate Dogg. Regulate.
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7 November, 2008 at 2:34 pm
In the run up to Remembrance Day we see the departure of the Chief Exec of the SIA and I’m forced to conclude this is a case of “greater love hath no man than this, that his friends lay his life down for their own”.
Mike Smith may not have been the most scintillating of public speakers, but the SIA improved leaps and bounds during his short tenure; better today than it was when the SIA was the “Kingdom of Saunders”.
OK, 38 temporary staff without security clearances is unacceptable, but should the man at the top who probably never even knew them – and definitely didn’t hire them – go because they were uncleared? I’m not sure. Is Mike Smith the only casualty or the only one that’s newsworthy? Should bankers who had to be bailed out by the tax payer still get bonuses, I’m not sure about that either. It’s a strange world in which we live, and seems to be getting stranger by the day.
One thing I am sure about is that if LDL is responsible for the security clearance of their staff, then whoever at the Home Office’s Departmental Security Unit said that “LDL’s recruitment and clearance procedures are robust” needs to buy a dictionary and look up “robust”.
So cheerio Mike Smith, thanks for all you did, most of it was good and I suspect we will miss you!