Staying alert during the winter festive period and beyond is vital. Licensed security professionals are integral to protecting the public and responding swiftly when threats emerge.
During the festive period, as throughout the year, thousands of licensed security operatives will be on duty safeguarding communities in towns and cities nationwide.
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office. Our role is to protect the public through robust regulation of the private security industry.
Keeping people safe requires collective action. We work closely with law enforcement partners and other organisations to maintain public safety across the UK.
Members of the public are equally vital to this effort—by remaining vigilant and reporting concerns to the nearest licensed security operative, member of staff or police officer, everyone can contribute to a safer environment.
New visual assets now available
We’ve created some new social media graphics to help you share important safety messages this winter. These assets are ready to download and use on your platforms.
You can play your part in keeping everyone safe by raising awareness of essential safety messages throughout the season.
Follow our social media channels for regular updates on vigilance and public safety and share these posts with your networks to help protect communities this winter.
You can also download the social media assets directly from this page and post them on your channels. Together, let’s keep everyone safe this season.
Download Campaign Toolkit
Click on formats to download visual assets
Security is a team effort
Say something to security
See something? Tell security
ACT take your online course
Speak to a licensed security operative
#SkilledForSafety
Identify signs of vulnerability
#SkilledForSafety
Identify predatory behaviour
#SkilledForSafety
Key messages
Here are some messages you can use on your channels to help raise awareness about public safety. Click on each tab to see the full text.
Hashtag #SafeSeasonTogether #SkilledForSafety
Security is a team effort
In this festive season, like all other seasons, many licensed security operatives will be working and keeping the public safe in towns and cities across the UK.
If you are out and about and see something that doesn’t feel right, report it to the nearest SIA licensed security operative, member of staff at the venue or police.
You can also report in confidence at gov.uk/act
In an emergency call 999
See something? Say something to security!
Play your part in keeping everyone safe.
If something doesn’t feel right, tell security or report in confidence at gov.uk/act
In an emergency, or if you need urgent police assistance, you should always dial 999.
Tell security
Vigilance throughout these winter months and the foreseeable future remains essential. The licensed security sector plays a critical part in public safety and responding to threats as and when they occur.
You can help in keeping everyone around you safe by being vigilant about your surroundings. If you see something that doesn’t feel right, please report to the nearest SIA licensed security operative, member of staff at the venue or police.
You can also report in confidence at gov.uk/act
In an emergency call 999
Speak to security
Licensed security operatives are trained in specialised techniques to keep you safe and secure.
Their training also includes how to spot and help people in vulnerable situations, how to administer basic first aid and how to prepare for and respond to terrorist incidents. In an emergency, or if you need urgent police assistance, you should always dial 999.
ACT for public safety- take your online course
Vigilance throughout these winter months and the foreseeable future remains essential. The licensed security sector plays a critical part in public safety and responding to threats as and when they occur.
We remind all security operatives to refresh their free online ACT training if they haven’t done so in a while. Please visit the link below to find out more: E-Learning | ProtectUK
Speak to a licensed security operative
Feeling unsafe, vulnerable or threatened on your night out?
You can speak to a licensed door supervisor or security guard.
SIA licensed security operatives are skilled and trained to keep the public safe.
Their training also includes how to spot and help people in vulnerable situations, how to administer basic first aid and how to prepare for and respond to terrorist incidents.
Identify signs of vulnerability
As an SIA licence holder, you play an important role in keeping the public safe.
Your training included ways to identify and respond to signs of vulnerability, for example:
1. Offering help to anyone who looks lost or isolated
2. Intervening if someone appears to be receiving unwanted attention
Thank you to all the licensed security operatives who use their skills to keep everyone safe.
Identify predatory behaviour
As an SIA licence holder, you play an important role in keeping the public safe.
Your training included ways to identify predatory behaviour.
Signs of predatory behaviour include:
1. Someone who is often surveying their surroundings
2. Someone whose hand is hovering near another person’s drink, or who quickly draws their hand away
If you come across spiking at your venue, please report it to the police immediately.
Our social media channels
You can follow the campaign on our social media channels or tag our pages in your posts to help spread the messages.
Public safety is a team effort
Public safety is a team effort. We liaise with multiple organisations including law enforcement partners to ensure the UK public can stay safe. We work in close partnership with government and non-government organisations for public protection. Here are some useful resources by some of our partner organisations in the UK government.
National Protective Security Authority
Follow the link to access the Mitigation of Terrorist Threats at Venues during Ingress and Egress Guidance on the NPSA website.
Counter Terrorism Policing
Follow the link to view the Winter Campaign Communications Toolkit on the Protect UK website.
National Police Chiefs’ Council
Follow the link to view the Police UK page on how to report spiking.
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Let’s have a fun-filled and safe season together! Check out the latest public safety communications campaign by the SIA.
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