PSSA Newsletter - November 2016

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NEWS| ISSUE 13November 2016
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PSSA Member News
PSSA developments
My column in the July newsletter was
dominated by information about the new
PSSA website that we were building at
the time and was promising to have the
site ready and live by the end of summer.
To the relief of those of us involved in its
development the site finally went live in
mid September. We hope you like it and
consider it a good step forward for the
PSSA. I would like to offer a huge thank
you to all the members who contributed to
the development of the new website plus,
once launched, to Zaun, Cova, and Frontier
Pitts who have helped with a press release
campaign which should generate further
PSSA press coverage in the coming weeks.
There is a clear message via the website
that PSSA members are quality companies
with quality products and services, many
of which are independently tested to give
maximum confidence to end clients. This is a
message that we intend to continue to bring
to the end users of high security external
perimeter protection and to this end we
have developed a full marketing plan for
the next twelve months that was ratified in
October by your management council and
the implementation of which will commence
immediately. Our aim is to significantly
raise the profile of PSSA, its members, and
its values in the coming
period.
Having now got the
bulk of the website
development work
behind us we have
begun taking action on other fronts and
elsewhere in this edition you will find
information on a review of the verification
scheme, preparations for the upcoming
AGM (which we have turned into more
of a conference format this year with a
number of excellent speakers including
representatives from CPNI and JSaRC),
and our exciting involvement with JSaRC
which is a newly launched government
initiative to bring government and the
security industry closer together. For those
of you attending UK Security Expo 2016 at
Olympia at the end of November please
note that also that we have a PSSA stand at
the exhibition and would be delighted to
welcome you onto it.
In summary, we continue to make
progress on various fronts and I look
forward to meeting as many of you as
possible at the AGM on 8th December to
discuss our progress this year and our plans
for 2017. 
Simon Towers, Chairman PSSA
PSSA representatives have been briefed on the
new Home Office initiative – the Joint Security
and Resilience Centre (JSaRC). The Home Office
have committed £11m over the next four years
to establish JSaRC. JSaRC is introduced as,“A
flexible capability where HMG and the security
sector (industry and academia) can work in
partnership to respond to both urgent and
longer term threats to UK national security and
can seize opportunities to support the growth
of the security sector. JSaRC will act as the
front door for the security sector to access the
complex security machinery of Government.
It will be the Government’s primary means
of co-ordinating industry support, refining
requirements, understanding the industry offer
and sharing strategic priorities.”
The initiative has the backing of BenWallace
MP, the Minister of State for Security, who
is a former overseas director of QinetiQ.
QinetiQ hosted the 2015 AGM of the PSSA.
JSaRC is being launched in partnership with
the UK’s Security and Resilience Industry
Suppliers Community (RISC). The PSSA is a
member of RISC which acts as the principal
channel of communication between the
Home Office (Office for Security and Counter
Terrorism (OSCT)) and the security sector and
national security and resilience issues. See
JSaRC will have 3 main objectives.
1. Deliver a joint response to the UK’s
national security challenges.
2. Drive the delivery of the right solutions.
3. Support the growth of the security sector.
Government challenge to PSSA members
The introduction of JSaRC, in partnership with
RISC (see article), opens up an opportunity
for PSSA members to give their views on
how Government can best respond to some
of the frustrations experienced in selling
into taxpayer supported security-related
projects. This will be part of the discussion
at the forthcoming AGM Conference on 8th
December, hosted by Horiba MIRA.
The PSSA’s Rob Oliver explains,“The support
of the Home Office to develop a better supplier
experience is crucial, but better practice won’t
just happen. We need both case studies and ideas
frommembers on how things can be improved
which we can support. We know that the
adoption of innovative products and techniques
is encouraged in principle but it can be more
difficult to get acceptance in practice”. 
Terra Diamond
Turnstile Achieves
Government
Forcibility Rating
Frontier Pitts is proud to announce our Terra
Diamond Turnstile has successfully passed
CPNI’s recent independent MFES Forced Entry
Testing. This testing proves the Terra Diamond
Turnstiles performance and durability, and
approves the pedestrian access control for
applications that protect the UK Government
and National Infrastructure.
The latest Manual Forced Entry Standard
replaces the Physical Barriers Attack Standard
(PBAS) reflecting the changes in current
threats. 
New route to government contracts