If you're around on Wednesday 23rd January, please feel free to come and join Di, Jade and Becky from the HQ team for a drink! We will be in The Viaduct Tavern, opposite the Old Bailey from 6pm for a meet and greet and New Year catch up. As our new Membership Engagement Manager, Jade is eager to meet all of our members, so please feel free to grab a pint and to join us all to introduce yourself and meet with some of our other members. Feel free to bring a colleague too - the more the merrier (maybe not literally!)

Kick off your new year by becoming a Chartered Security Professional. Joining this workshop will help you learn the best way to complete and submit your application so that the admittance process is as easy as possible for you and us.

• Learn about the steps your application will follow
• Gain a good understanding of the competencies we are looking for
• What you should and shouldn't put on your Application Form
• Meet Interview Assessors and hear practice questions

There will be an interactive workshop, where you will be able to receive one to one advice on making a successful application to the Register. Applicants are encouraged to bring copies of qualification and training certificates/letters of support/examples of work etc. to discuss with the assessors and administrators. At the end of this workshop you should feel confident to complete your application, and have a better understanding of the application process and timescales, and what CSyP can do for you. If you have any questions, please contact Di Thomas on 07879 330818 or di@security-institute.org You can earn 2 formal CPD points for attending this event.

CPD Seminar with Zaun- Perimeter Security & HVM, the holistic approach

A networking and CPD event with market leaders in perimeter security. Zaun Group and partners are presenting and demonstrating products and expertise in delivering high security solutions from temporary and permanent fencing and barriers for major events such as Commonwealth Games to high security perimeter security and detection solutions for prisons, utilities and other CNI sites. Running order:

1. Rick Mounfield - Introduction
2. CPNI - Richard, presenting on Permanent HVM security
3. John Marshall, TSP, presenting the PSSA approved CPD on temporary HVM security
4. Russ Phillips (TBC), National Barrier Asset, presenting the importance of the NBA and what they do
5. BRE - Tommy, presenting on the work that BRE do in testing security products for permanent solutions
6. Zaun - Moheez Ali, presenting on the overall security solutions that can be provided and the various applications they are suitable for.

This event has been sponsored by Zaun.

This inaugural Joint CPNI and SyI South West regional networking and CPD event will focus upon a topical and emergent security risk, that of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) (or "drones") risks that is now out of the realm of science fiction and novelty and very much impacting on every day life. Featuring presenters from CPNI and industry, we will explore the latest HM Government advice, and look at a range of practical countermeasures and case studies form commercial and defence sectors. The prevalence of UAV threats impacts on many aspects of security risk management across a very broad range of sectors within the security industry. Examples include, but are not limited to: Critical National Infrastructure; public safety;  sporting events; retail; prisons; and hostile reconnaissance. This event is open to: (a)  members (at any level) of the Security Institute; (b) Chartered Security professionals (CSyP), and; (c) members (at any level) of the CPNI Register of Security & Engineering Specialists (RSES) with priority given to those based in the SW Region. [There may be a small selection of consumer drones on display (TBC)] Sponsored by Dallmeier.

Tickets: £110 for CSyPs / £130 for all other guests. Lord Carlile CBE QC, Chairman of the Chartered Security Professionals Registration Authority invites you to join him for this annual celebration of the Register of Chartered Security Professionals. Come and join us as we visit the oldest criminal court in the world for our annual dinner and certificate presentation. The evening will include:

• Drinks Reception
• Formal 4-course dinner with wines
• VIP Guest Speaker (TBC)
• Presentation of Certificates to new Chartered Security Professionals
• Networking with senior security figures and fellow CSyPs

Kindly sponsored by Dallmeier.