From The Editor

Kia ora and welcome to the April-May 2022 issue of New Zealand Security Magazine! In this issue we focus on transport, tourism, access management, and IT security threats, as well as all the latest solutions and industry news.

Firstly, a big thanks to this issue’s wonderful sponsors and leading manufacturers and distributors Loktronic, Hikvision, Panasonic, ICT, ASSA ABLOY, Vivotek (Clear Digital), Provision-ISR (SWL) and simPRO. Our sponsors play an important role by contributing to a vibrant and informed security sector through their support of the magazine.

We’d also like to recognise our association and event partners, the New Zealand Security Association, the New Zealand Institute of Private Investigators, ASIS International, Risk NZ, New Zealand Security Sector Network, INDO PACIFIC 2022 and Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.

Inside this issue, with Aotearoa’s Covid borders opening up after an over two-year closure, we look at the challenges facing the tourism sector as it prepares to welcome international visitors once again. Amid a cost of living crisis, Scott La Franchie delves into the relationship between inflation and theft.

Drawing from extensive project management experience, David Withers APP lists the myriad reasons why projects fail – or under-deliver – and burn money and people in the process.

In a recent NZSA and ASIS NZ Chapter webinar, PSPLA Chair Trish McConnell talked security licensing, COVID, omicron, and how the Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority (PSPLA) has been responding to the challenges of now - and looking to the challenges of the future. Inside, we feature the first half of her extensive presentation.

We also hear from IFSEC #1 Global Influencer in Security Jennie Vickers on Auckland Council’s ground-breaking new values-based contract template, and David Tombs discusses what’s in store for electronic monitoring.

Writing for ASIS International’s Security Technology magazine, Jeffrey A. Slotnick, CPP, PSP looks at the perpetually fascinating question of robotics and their place in security, and a Flinders University study looks at the activities of scammers during crises and disasters.

All this, plus the latest industry and product news in this issue of NZSM!

Stay safe and stay well.

Nicholas Dynon, Auckland

NZSM

New Zealand Security Magazine

Nick Dynon Chief Editor Nick has written for NZSM since 2013. He writes on all things security, but is particularly fascinated with the fault lines between security and privacy, and between individual, enterprise and national security. Prior to NZSM he clocked up over 20 years experience in various border security and military roles.

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