Strategy Launched by Baroness Ruth Henig at SIA Conference

9 May 2007: Today at the University of Leicester, Security Industry Authority (SIA) Chairman Baroness Ruth Henig, hosted the 'SIA: the Changing Agenda' conference and launched the publication of the SIA Stakeholder Engagement Strategy.

Speaking to the audience of security providers, purchasers, SIA partners and stakeholders, Ruth Henig said:

"The purpose of this conference is to evaluate what the SIA has achieved through introducing licensing and regulation of the private security industry and to look at the changing agenda and priorities for the future.

A lot has been achieved in a short time and there have been many successes and some challenges. The priorities outlined in our Corporate and Business plan for 2007-08, together with our Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, which I am pleased to launch today, will point the direction in which we believe we need to travel in the next three or four years. But our journey has to be a collaborative one and it has to be travelled in step with the private security industry and alongside our stakeholders and partners.

We need to become, and be recognised as, not only a first class regulator, but a valued and respected strategic partner - to government and its agencies, to the industry and its representative bodies, to training organisations, the police and other pubic sector bodies."

Download a copy of Ruth's speech (download size: 106kb)

The conference also heard from:

• David Dickinson, BSIA Chief Executive
• Andy Drane, SIA Acting Chief Executive
• Robin Dahlberg, SIA Vice Chairman
• Richard Childs, Community Safety Consultancy
• Peter Davis, ACPO Lead on security industry
• Professor Martin Gill, Perpetuity Group
• Bruce George MP
• Dr Mark Button, University of Portsmouth

Notes to Editors:

• Electronic copies of the Stakeholder Engagement Strategy can be downloaded here.