Manchester Arena Inquiry: Consideration Given to Licencing Those Monitoring In-House CCTV

07 Apr 2022

 

The Home Office and Security Industry Association (SIA) are seeking feedback from businesses of all sizes, from all industries – even if they have ‘just’ CCTV and no broader security arrangements – and whether any security they do have is in-house or outsourced,  including those whose recordings are only viewed post-incident. 

The safety of people in the United Kingdom is always the top priority for the UK Government. Following the horrific terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, which resulted in the loss of twenty-two innocent people’s lives and life-changing physical and psychological harm to many others, the Home Secretary established the Manchester Arena Inquiry under the chairmanship of Sir John Saunders.

The purpose of the Inquiry is to investigate the circumstances of the attack and make recommendations as appropriate.

In June this year, Sir John published the first volume of his report1 which addressed the security arrangements at the concert. He made the following monitored recommendations to the Home Office and the SIA:

• MR7: The requirement that only those monitoring CCTV under a contract for services need to hold an SIA licence should be reviewed.
• MR8: Consideration should be given to whether contractors who carry out security services should be required to be licensed.

The Home Office and SIA would also like to hear from those organisations that either buy or supply manned security services or CCTV monitoring. 

To better understand and explore the views and experiences of the people and businesses, who have in-house/contracted out security or who are involved in the provision of security services. The Home Office and SIA are working closely together to consider these recommendations and therefore launching a market research exercise and asking for your help.

Agfora and Plus Four Market Research (Plus4) were commissioned to do the work, and hope that other businesses will join in.

If you run or work for an organisation, you will need to be able to answer the questions on behalf of your organisation, so we would welcome the opportunity to hear from the person responsible for security decision-making at your organisation. 

Your support for this work would be greatly appreciated and an important contribution to keeping the public safe.

This survey (deadline 30th April 2022) should be completed by the person responsible for security decisions at your organisation and/or anyone employed in-house (PAYE) as security or who monitors your CCTV. 

View the survery 

Source: Plus4