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Chair’s Update:

A year that won’t be

forgotten

Peter Lavery FSyI

2021 marked my first year as Chair of
the Security Institute, taking over from
Professor Alison Wakefield CSyP FSyI in
January. As the year is coming to a close
and we reflect on the achievements
that we have made, it is fair to say that
2021 has been a year filled with great
achievements forward for both the
Institute and the wider security sector.
In June, I was pleased to meet with the
Board of Directors for our Strategy Day.
We established 5 strategic objectives,
which are: ‘Membership experience’,
‘Professionalisation, Next Generation,
Ethics, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion’
and ‘Influence’. In the past few months,
we have already made significant
strides under each of these objectives.

Both our membership and influence
continued to grow, despite the many
challenges that the on-going pandemic
continues to present to us all. The latest
Validation Board (VB) figures, which
do not yet include the last two months
of the year, show that over 850 new
members have joined the Institute in
2021. These figures mean that 2021
is already our second biggest year for
recruitment ever, with November and
December figures still to be include,
2021 may surpass 2020’s record. A
massive thank you to our VB Chair Tony
Aston FSyI and the many members
that volunteer their time on the VB for
making this possible.

Outside of new members joining it
has been a busy time, with many
opportunities for new and existing
members to engage with the Institute.
On October 28th, our Annual
Conference returned as an in-person
event at the Royal Society of Medicine.
This marked the Institute’s first-
ever hybrid event, with close
to 200 members joining us
in London and many others
logging in across the world to
participate in our premier
CPD event. This year’s