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UCL in the News: You invest in CCTV, but is anyone watching the screens?

28 February 2008

'Professional Security' Prof Gloria Laycock is the director of the Centre for Security and Crime Science (CSCS, www.

cscs.ucl.ac.uk) at UCL. …

The centre is keen to bring in private sector people. That need not be people with security in their title; but rather executives who need to know about business resilience, that being a topic for company boards now. …

The one-day classes would seek to get execs to think about what crime is faced by their business, to prevent it - which is not quite the same as what law enforcers - and their data analysts - want to do, which is catch offenders. For one thing, do you let possible offenders know of the security measures you are taking, to warn them of the increased risks? …

As featured in the March print issue of Professional Security Magazine, UCL are launching a masters degree in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. The launch is by Lord Stevens - who is a member of the CSCS advisory board - on April 22 from 530pm at the BT Tower, in central London. If anyone is interested in attending and/or taking the course, email Vaseem Khan at UCL Centre for Security and Crime Science at uctcvas@ucl.ac.uk. …