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Know your Institute
Know your Institute
Chief Executive’s Address:
Government Security Group memberships
and the positive impact for all members of
the Security Institute.
Rick Mounfield CSyP FSyI
In 2017, I met with a member of HMRC to discuss the
Government’s security framework and how the Institute could
be involved in providing a collaborative enterprise for the good
of the Government Security Profession Competency Framework
(GSPCF) and the wider security community. It was a complex
conversation that seemed to be very much one-sided. Over the
following years, the baton was passed to Department of Works
and Pensions to the Cabinet Office. The resulting framework,
launched in Feb 2020, was far from one-sided.
The Government Security Profession amounts to 11,500
professionals working in specialisms. Those being Physical,
Personnel, Technical, Cyber and Corporate enablers. These
“clusters” or “centres of excellence” aim to define baseline
standards and skills in each area with 45 defined GSPCF roles.
The training opportunities and career progression that are
required, mirror what the corporate security sector would like
to achieve but find too difficult because the different businesses
have no way of collaborating in any meaningful way. The
Security Institute is aspiring to address this dislocation.
The Government Security Profession was officially launched at
their Security Conference in London back in February 2020, just
before the pandemic brought everything to a grinding halt. The
Institute was declared as an intrinsic part of the professional
journey and all GSP personnel were encouraged to join the
Security Institute to broaden their exposure to the wider security
world. This decision to “open up” to collaborative projects has
already resulted in innovative working groups and will continue
to accelerate the protective measures we can all consider in our
areas of responsibility, whatever our specialism may be.
Back in February, the Institute had group memberships in place
with the FCO, MOD DE&S and the Civil Aviation Authority.
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