Brian Sims
Editor
Brian Sims
Editor
THE INTERNATIONAL Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO) – the not-for-profit professional membership association affording professional learning opportunities for security practitioners – has formed a strategic corporate partnership with the Global SecurAlliance, the organisation uniting top-tier security companies within a cohesive international alliance purpose-designed to meet the complex needs of today’s global clients.
The Global SecurAlliance summer meeting ran on 16 June at the Château de Méry-sur-Oise on the outskirts of Paris. At the meeting, it was announced that the Global SecurAlliance had won a number of international tenders to supply security services to global corporations and, as a direct result, will be engaging more with IFPO on embedding its competency model and globally recognised security education and certification programmes (ie the CPO and the CSSM).
Global SecurAlliance members employ circa 100,000 security officers in 28 countries delivering a total revenue of €2.6 billion.
IFPO Global Advisory Board member Mike Hurst CPP CPOI attended the Global SecurAlliance meeting and presented CEO Patrick Senior with the certificate of strategic partnership.
In addition, Hurst presented Corporate Member certificates to Nick O’Connor of Bidvest Noonan and Marek Ruzicka of Czech organisation M2C. French partner BSL was represented at the meeting by Lyes Iguedjtal, Tarik Ikhlef CPP and Gora Ndao.
Structured organisation
Global SecurAlliance’s structured organisation and its GLOCAL 360° approach offers the benefits of multinational reach, while at the same time preserving the flexibility, local expertise and responsiveness required to deliver an exceptional level of service.
Global SecurAlliance and its members share a single goal: client satisfaction. Through collaboration and the GLOCAL approach, the organisation delivers customised security solutions tailored to the specific needs of each client and country. This agile alliance ensures consistent excellence across borders. The goal is ‘Think Global, Act Local’.
IFPO members are both individuals and corporate entities. Corporate Members are normally either providers of security services or end users. IFPO was established in 1988 and boasts members in 68 countries and has security professionals in 56 countries studying its educational programmes.
*Further information is available online at www.ifpo.org and www.globalsecuralliance.com
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