'I was delighted to attend the NTIPDU seminar last week. What is really encouraging and impressive about it was the thought and commitment to quality shown by a really important sector of the security industry. NTIPDU is an umbrella body for security dogs and the basis its whole 'reason to be' is to  raise standards and deliver a really professional service within that sector. With regulation ensuring that the people in the security industry are honorable and competent, NTIPDU is carving out for itself a place as one of the few bodies who will ensure that through its carefully developed training when its certificated dogs and handlers are used they are professionally trained and the dogs well controlled.

The Joint Security Industry Council (JSIC) is a not a trade body, but a cross industry organisation whose aim is to see standards and quality across the industry raised. It is really pleasing to see just how much NTIPDU are committed to the same thing. With them and  similar quality bodies in other sectors, 'on the case', the huge pent up potential that the security industry has within it to make an impact in a variety of ways in countering crime and disorder, of course, in partnership with the police, can be released.

The security industry is going through very significantly change at the moment. The rate of that change is going to increase over the next few months as not only does it become properly regulated and trained (as will happen from January next year), but because it offers an increasing range of highly professional services it will more and more be available to help other agencies in the fight against crime and disorder. It will take time to ensure regulation is properly bedded in, but with the organisations represented by JSIC (and NTIPDU is one of them) committed to high standards, I believe that the future development of the security industry is in pretty safe and professional hand.'