The 11th annual ASIS European Security Conference and Exhibition is expected to attract between 500 and 700 senior security executives from all over Europe and the world when it runs in London on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 April.
The event will begin on Sunday 15 April with the first-time attendees’ and new members’ reception and then continue with two solid days featuring 44 high-level educational sessions divided over four parallel tracks.
Speakers including Baroness Angela Harris of Richmond (deputy speaker in the House of Lords and Patron of ASIS UK Chapter 208) and James Brokenshire MP – the UK minister responsible for crime and security issues – frame a programme that includes:
Welcome from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Bernard Hogan-Howe was announced as Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner on 12 September last year.
After four years working in the health service, he joined South Yorkshire Police at the tender age of 22. He worked across the South Yorkshire area in uniform, CID, traffic and personnel. During this time he policed Doncaster’s mining community during the miners’ strikes.
In 1997, Hogan-Howe joined Merseyside Police as assistant chief constable with responsibility for community affairs before taking on area operations in 1999. He was Gold Commander during the national petrol disputes of 2000-2001.
This excellent policeman joined the Metropolitan Police Service as assistant commissioner in July 2001, with responsibility for Human Resources. During this time he helped the Met to attain 20% growth. The force reached a total of 30,000 officers: the largest ever gathering in the history of the Met.
He re-joined Merseyside Police in 2004 on appointment to chief constable. This is where Hogan-Howe introduced the Total Policing model focusing on crime, victims and professionalism. This approach led to crime reducing by a third, a 26% reduction in anti-social behaviour and the highest level of criminal asset recovery outside of London (more than GB pound 20 million over three years).
In October 2009 he was appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary with responsibility for the London and National Office. This included inspections of the Met, the City of London Police, the British Transport Police, SOCA and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Hogan-Howe was also lead HMI on thematic areas of policing such as the Olympics, counter-terrorism and serious organised crime. Since January 2011 he has led the review of the national domestic extremism units.
He has vast experience in crime investigation and strategic leadership of major public events, public disorder and organised crime, particularly involving the use of firearms.
Head of security for London Olympics to Keynote at ASIS Europe 2012
Stephen Cooper OBE, head of security for the Olympic Park and Olympic Village, will speak on securing major events at the 11th ASIS European Security Conference and Exhibition.
Cooper was appointed to his present role in January. He’s responsible for all aspects of perimeter security, searching and screening and, in conjunction with other LOCOG functional areas, for venue security.
Prior to joining LOCOG, Cooper was the head of security for the Olympic Delivery Authority (where his responsibilities included security design in venues, delivering security perimeter systems and infrastructure and all aspects of corporate and Olympic Park operational security).
Cooper served in the Army for 24 years, his forces career comprising mainly of bomb disposal, weapon intelligence and other counter-terrorist appointments.
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