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Corporate Social Responsibility

Inclusion and Diversity

Questionnaire launched by ISSIG

The Security Institute’s Inclusive Security Special Interest
Group (ISSIG) has launched an Inclusivity and Diversity
questionnaire, aiming to understand the security
sector’s workforce in greater detail. After receiving over
500 responses from Security Institute members, the
questionnaire is now being opened to the wider sector.
There is a lack of existing data that identifies the diversity
figures for the security sector as a whole, which makes it
difficult to identify areas for improvement and furthermore
hinders any efforts to track changes in the workforce over
time.
The questionnaire will help benchmark diversity figures for
the security sector, providing quantitative data as well as
offering participants the opportunity to anonymously share
their experiences and supply their thoughts if they should wish to
do so.

This data will be used to inform future initiatives by the Security
Institute and its members to improve industry practices and
ultimately build a stronger, more inclusive workforce. Going
forward the questionnaire’s results will also help evaluate the
impact of these future initiatives and help track the sectors
inclusivity over time.
To provide a full picture of inclusivity in the sector, the
questionnaire addresses a wide variety of demographic categories
including but not limited to age, educational background, gender
as well as both visible and non-visible disabilities.

Speaking on the importance of the questionnaire, the ISSIG Co-
Chairs Anna-Liisa Tampuu ASyI and Lisa Reilly ASyI said:
‘As a sector, it is our responsibility that our workforce of security
professionals reflects the people that we serve to protect. A
diversity of viewpoints and backgrounds will mean that, as a
sector, we are best prepared to tackle the threats of both today
and tomorrow. This is why the Security Institute, through our
Inclusive Security SIG, is working so hard to make the sector
inclusive for all.
This sector-wide survey has been created by our Inclusive Security
SIG members, and will help us benchmark diversity figures for our
sector as a whole, informing the projects that we focus on in the
coming years.’

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