Managing Director, Mark Harding, spoke to the prestigious audience on the second day of the event, focusing on the critical issues around training in the UK. Speaking alongside the BSIA's Olympic 2012 project director David Evans, Harding focused on the potential benefits and pitfalls for the UK security industry presented by the 2012 London Olympics.
Harding stated: "The security industry contains a lot of experienced, qualified professionals and it should be those people driving the agenda towards the Games. The training programmes and qualifications infrastructure for the Games security and crowd management should be geared around the wider industry. Rather than the three week event potentially focusing our industry on a non-transferable security legacy, we need to create a positive legacy for the events security industry based on effective training programmes and security professionals that stay within the industry long after the Games."
(Jim Evans)
