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Fixated persons

Organisational culture as precipitator to crime
Features

Organisational culture as a precipitator to crime

May 12, 2019

David Horsburgh PSP PCI CPP writes that an organisational culture that treats customers without respect may lead to violence against staff. It’s something, he argues, that a post-Ashburton review of the MSD security environment failed […]

Call out extremism
Counter-Terrorism

Interview: Call out extremist behaviour, define underpinning values

March 20, 2019

Dr Richard Shortt, former Combined Threat Assessment Group manager (New Zealand Police/NZ Security Intelligence Service) and national security policy advisor (Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet), suggests the need for a circumspect response to extremism. […]

Public spaces
Guarding & Patrols

‘She’ll be right’ factor is our biggest threat

August 1, 2018

Chris Proctor, Head of Visitor Safety, Regional Facilities Auckland, presented at a recent ASIS New Zealand Chapter breakfast meeting on behaviour detection. It’s a game-changing skill, he writes, that the industry needs to be developing. […]

Terrorism: Rainbow Warrior
Counter-Terrorism

Countering terrorism where there’s ‘apparently’ no terrorism to counter

July 10, 2018

New Zealanders’ sense of security from the threat of terrorism, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, is based on the belief that terrorism happens elsewhere. History tells us […]

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