Kia ora and welcome to the October-November 2022 issue of New Zealand Security Magazine!
This is our annual awards edition in which we profile all the winners of the 2022 New Zealand Security Awards, and much more. And what an awards evening it was! In a post-COVID return to in-person partying, the awards gala dinner didn’t disappoint with strong attendance from across the industry and Te Radar at his best!
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A big congratulations to Gary Morrison and the NZSA for delivering a top-notch edition of the awards. A large number of high-quality nominations, an excellent line-up of finalists, and a fantastic diversity of winners, this was a highly subscribed and hotly contested awards year.
An especially big congratulations to Security Officer of the Year and recipient of the Ian Dick Memorial Award for Security Professional of the Year Keith Forster of Armourguard Security. A truly deserving winner of the supreme award and an inspiration to the many thousands of hardworking uniformed private security professionals who protect our communities and businesses day-in-day-out.
While we’re on the topic of awards, it is with great excitement that this issue of NZSM announces that nominations for the 2022 Women in Security Awards Aotearoa (WiSAA) are open!
The WiSAAs are now in their third year, and they are a fantastic initiative. This awards programme is ‘domain all-inclusive’, which means they involve physical security, cybersecurity, investigations, intelligence, and resilience professionals in one big celebration of pan-security excellence. There’s nothing else quite like it, and this year is shaping up to be more impressive than ever!
Lastly – and while we’re still on the topic of awards – I’d like to give a big shout out to the inimitable Andrew Thorburn who has recently been announced as the new head judge for IFSEC Global Influencers in Security! This is great recognition for Andrew, but importantly it’s fantastic acknowledgement of Aotearoa New Zealand. We’re not infrequently left off world maps, but we’re now definitely on this one, and we’re front and centre!
Quite apart from his obvious ability to engage with the security community internationally, I’d like to acknowledge the work that Andrew continues to do locally – usually silently and behind the scenes – to do good within the security sector. Andrew is, for example, the driving force behind such initiatives as the aforementioned WiSAAs and also the Rapuara Careers Service Day (featured in this issue of NZSM), and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The next issue of NZSM is our annual retailers’ edition, and with everything that’s been happening in the retail crime and security space lately, you can expect that one to be a super-bumper edition.
Stay safe.
Nicholas Dynon, Auckland.
