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28th January 2021

The Ultra Low Emission Zone

In 2003, then Mayor of London Ken Livingston introduced the Congestion Charge Zone in Central London. In the mid-1990s studies concluded that…

28th January 2021

The impact of Brexit on the construction industry

The construction and infrastructure industry is one of the largest sectors in the UK, it employs around 3.1 million people, around 9% of the…

28th January 2021

UK national security post Brexit

During its time in the EU, the United Kingdom had the advantage of being able to access a number of real-time Europe-wide shared crime…

20th January 2021

Neom – Saudia Arabia’s futuristic city

The word Neom is a portmanteau of two words, the Greek word ‘Neos’ and the Arabic word ‘mustaqbal’. Neom translates to ‘future’ in…

13th January 2021

Consequences of the SolarWinds hack

A ‘highly sophisticated cyber espionage operation’ has successfully been operating under the radar of the US Cyber Command, Homeland Security and the…

29th December 2019

An unobtrusive approach to protection

We often hear a wide array of terminologies used to describe physical surveillance in security, such as hostile surveillance, counter-surveillance, antisurveillance, and…

17th January 2020

Planning for risk in the 21st century

For any business or enterprise, managing risk needs to start from the beginning, or at least at a point when risk realisation…

28th January 2020

Skills and qualities of the modern bodyguard

Asked to describe a typical bodyguard, most of the general public would probably paint a picture of a James Bond-esque, ex-special forces…