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‘Big Ben’ launches free personal safety sessions bubble, perhaps concentrating on our phones and losing touch with the reality of physical dangers all around us. So, my plan is to run some free evening sessions to talk through some things that
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Professional safeguarding expert, local resident Ben Jacobs has set up a Horsham Community Safety page on Facebook to help raise awareness aimed at tackling personal safety issues. Ben’s idea was reposted by The Horsham Facebook page and received a huge response proving a need for this kind of project. While the Horsham district is happily regarded as a low crime area compared with inner city locations, crime and potential dangers are nevertheless all around us and Ben’s idea is to use his considerable, successful experience to provide advice on how people can avoid needless exposure to harmful situations, telling the District Post: “My concern is that everyone is so busy and preoccupied today and although in many ways we are more streetwise than ever, we tend to be in a bit of a
I’d just like to provide a spur to encourage people to take individual responsibility for their own safety we ought to be looking out for – and outlining some ways on how difficulties might be avoided.” 38 year old Ben attended Tanbridge House School and has lived locally all of his life, having set up his security business some years ago and been a bodyguard for celebrities around the world and providing protection for visiting foreign dignitaries, and diplomats, too. Ben continues: “The first port of
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call for anyone in difficulty should always be the police and I’m not out to encourage people to become ‘have a go heroes’, but it is clear that the spate of knife crimes and other problems compromising personal safety is creating unease and I’d just like to provide a spur to encourage people to take individual responsibility for their own safety by bringing a few useful remedies to their attention – after all, when somebody is out and about, often the only person that they can rely on is themself!” Ben’s job is to ensure the safety of individuals in his care and he is keen to pass on the necessary safeguarding skills that he has had to acquire - and needed to put in practice on a daily basis – and he sums up saying: “I’ve had considerable interest in my proposed safety sessions and am currently holding funding discussions and talking to a possible venue with a view to holding the first event in April for around 150 people and I invite anyone interesting in attending to get involved, initially by joining my Horsham Community Safety Facebook page.”
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