Rebuilding the Foundations of Security

Abstract

This chapter will set out an agenda of reforms that can rebuild the foundations of security. As with the rest of the book this discussion will centre around the UK, although much also applies to other countries. The chapter will begin by considering ways in which regulation can be strengthened to improve the quality of the private security industry. It will then look at the creation of an appropriate professional infrastructure that could produce a more professional means of doing security. In particular, we argue here for a new model of security management — ‘Security Risk Management’. Finally the chapter explores the more contentious issue of security inequity and sets out a framework utilising ‘security unions’ to tackle this.