International Professional Security Association
The International Professional Security Association (IPSA) is a UK-based membership association for companies and individuals working in security, fire and systems sectors.[1][2]
Currently, IPSA has 30+ Company Members and 4500+ Individual Members from all over the globe.[3] IPSA’s membership benefits include helplines, training programs, industry news updates, online courses, etc.[4]
History
Founded in 1958, IPSA (then called Industrial Police Association) is the oldest established security association in the UK.[5] The association was initially renamed as the Industrial Police Security Association, formed in 1962 by several ex Met Crime Prevention Officers to bring regulation and professionalism to the security industry[5]. Later in 1977, its name was changed to the International Professional Security Association.[5] IPSA completed 50 years since its inception in 2008.[5]
The new IPSA
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many of the security front-line workers, who were deemed as essential workers, lost their lives.[6][7][8] IPSA changed its business model in 2020 stating that the association’s new focus would be on the welfare of frontline workers and consequently offered them free membership to the Association. [3][9]
Management
IPSA’s management includes a Chairman and a Chief Executive Officer that head the Board of Directors each heading a different segment of the Association.[10][11] The board members volunteer to be a part of the IPSA management team while continuing with their professions and other positions within the security industry.
Founders
The ‘Founders' are a group of organisations, from within the security industry, that offered support to IPSA during the remodelling in 2020.[9][12][13]
What does IPSA do?
IPSA is a membership association for individuals and companies working in the security industry.[14] The members belong to the fire, systems and security sectors.[14] As mentioned on their website, the IPSA association “was formed over 60 years ago to ensure professionalism in the management of security operations."[3][9]
Frontline Forum
IPSA established the Front-line Forum to represent the front-line workers within the private security profession.[3][4] With this forum, they have made an attempt to enable the IPSA Board to have direct communication with the frontline to attain their feedback on their specific sector needs.[3][4]
The FLF consists of 3 representatives, one from each sector - fire, systems and security.[3][4] The Chairman of the group is elected from one of the 3 front-line sectors and serves the role for 6 months post which the role rotates through each of the sectors on a continual rolling 6 month basis.[4] The Chairman of the group is seconded to the IPSA Board.[4]
The FLF team conduct meetings to discuss their views about the needs of their individual sectors in the industry and the FLF Chair represents those views at the Board meetings.[4]
Industry analysis
IPSA has been conducting industry analysis to help understand the prevailing issues. In 2011, IPSA conducted a study to understand the need for future regulation in the security industry with support from Impellam Support Services, Institute for Facilities Management and Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply.[15] A more recent effort of IPSA has been to understand the true value of SIA Approved Contractor Scheme based on concerns raised by some of the IPSA Company Members.[16][17] This survey has also been endorsed and promoted by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) themselves to understand the scope of improvement.[18][19]
IPSA Mobile APP
IPSA App is Association’s digital portal that provides updated Fire & Security related newsfeeds from around the world and other information and guidance for the frontline workers.[3] IPSA also collects data on the security professionals’ mental health and captures incidents faced by them along with other key analytics through the App.[13]
IPSA - NUJ Guidelines
IPSA has developed guidelines for engagement between private security officers and journalists, in collaboration with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).[20] The guidelines were made available to both the industries for free after their launch in March’22. Security and Journalism sectors are often required to interact and engage with one another when serving the people and the collaboration recognized a gap in resources and education on how the engagement could be professionalised and handled with mutual respect, especially when working under pressure.[20] Link to the guidance - https://library.myebook.com/ProSec/guidelines-for-engagement-between-private-security-officers-and-journalists/3959/
Alliance SIG
IPSA launched Alliance SIG (Special Interest Group) to promote and support the front-line security professionals from every gender, race and community.[21]
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 RP, MDM Publishing Ltd- (2021-05-05). "International Professional Security Association (IPSA)". UK Fire. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Front-line Forum". Professional Security. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "IPSA hosts Jubilee Reception at the House of Lords". IFSEC Global | Security and Fire News and Resources. 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ White, Josh; Hope, Christopher (2021-01-07). "Who is on the list of key workers?". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ Patel, Jyoti (2020-03-23). "What is a Frontline Employee or Key Worker?". Fleximize. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ January 2021, Lauren Brown 26. "Low-paid and frontline workers most at risk of Covid-related death, study finds". www.peoplemanagement.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 OBeirne, Sarah (2021-04-27). "Panasonic Security Solutions supports key workers and IPSA by joining as a founder". FMJ. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ "Simon Jeremy Maxwell PEARS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ↑ "INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SECURITY ASSOCIATION filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ "Founders". IPSA. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "IPSA free app". Professional Security. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "About Us". IPSA. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ "The SIA's Future: a joint statement by SMT Online and Infologue.com". Infologue.com - Manned Security e-Zine. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "IPSA invites survey responses to understand 'true value' of SIA Approved Contractor Scheme". IFSEC Global | Security and Fire News and Resources. 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "IPSA in ACS survey". Professional Security. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "https://twitter.com/siauk/status/1531303429783658497". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-06-10. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Security Industry Authority on LinkedIn: #SIAInfo". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "IPSA-NUJ guidance". Professional Security. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "IPSA appoints Satia Rai as Welfare and EDI Director - International Security Journal (ISJ)". internationalsecurityjournal.com. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
