Student shot at Hip-Hop concert

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Title – Student shot at Hip-Hop concert
Source – The Times
Date – 12th March 2007

When parents send their children off to University they expect the experience to be one of learning, not just academically but also socially, to prepare them for the rest of their lives. Most are not naive enough to think that University is purely an academic experience and understand that many students are forced or choose to take part time work to cover the every day costs of living, as well as the odd night out.

But parents also expect their children to be entering a safe and controlled environment, but nowhere is immune from the scourge of gun crime and in this case someone’s son took on a part time job working as a security steward and found himself on the front line and gunned down in the process of his work.

We run both National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS) as well as Conflict Management and Resolution courses (CMR) and Physical Intervention courses (PI) for those people working in venues at Universities and Student Unions in these front line positions and other areas where they may face aggression and violence in their workplace.

We do not claim to be able to eliminate this kind of freak occurrence, but we can successfully train staff to reduce the levels of conflict they face in the workplace through management of the situations they encounter and the teaching of conflict resolution skills.


We have over 15 years of experience of working with and alongside young adults and students in the security and licensed retail sector within Universities and Students’ Unions and pride ourselves on our ability to communicate and train this demographic effectively.



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Man shot in stomach at University

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Title – Man shot in stomach at University
Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 11th March 2007

Universities are places of learning; we associate them with safety and serenity not violence and gun crime. But it seems that nowhere in the country is immune from the scourge of the criminal element, who seem to be more and more willing to use weapons as a matter of choice.

This incident at Loughborough University Student Union was certainly not an everyday event, but the seriousness of the incident should leave everyone in no doubt about the dangers faced in even the most unexpected work environments. The student security steward who was shot would have expected to deal with the odd incident of aggression or even violence but would never have expected to face this kind of situation or a gun.

We run both the National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS) as well as Conflict Management and Resolution courses (CMR) and Physical Intervention courses (PI) for those people working in venues at Universities and Student Unions in these front line positions and other areas where they may face aggression and violence in their workplace.

We do not claim to be able to eliminate this kind of freak occurrence, but we can successfully train staff to reduce the levels of conflict they face in the workplace through management of the situations they encounter and the teaching of conflict resolution skills.
We have over 15 years of experience of working with and alongside young adults and students in the security and licensed retail sector within Universities and Students’ Unions and pride ourselves on our ability to communicate and train this demographic effectively.

Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk

Waiter traps predator as he spikes his date’s wine

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Title – Waiter traps predator as he spikes his date’s wine.
Source – The Daily Mail
Date – 3rd March 2007

The staff working within the licensed retail sector and the security industry generally find themselves on the front page of a newspaper when things go wrong, the image of these staff is often perceived in a very negative light. So when we have good news, it is always a disappointment to see it only reported in the back pages of the newspapers. Individuals like Kevin Murphy should be applauded for their vigilance; in this case he almost certainly saved the lady in question, from a serious drug assisted sexual assault.

Drug assisted sexual assault or rape is a serious problem for all staff working within bars, clubs and restaurants, it is the duty of all staff to have the basic knowledge they need, to be able to observe and recognise the signs and symptoms of these predators and intervene when they believe individuals are in danger. It is an area that the press have certainly sensationalised to the point where some reports lead us to believe that almost every drink has been spiked. That is certainly not the case, but one spiking is enough for the industry to take the matter very seriously.


We run a number of courses during which the subject of drink spiking is examined and measures are looked at to enable all staff to assist in the prevention and detection of those that might choose to spike someone else’s drink. Our In-House Security Induction Courses (IHSI) and National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS) both address the subject and through Consultancy Projects and advice we can offer those working within the licensed retail sector, we can help organisations and venues to provide some protection to their customers.



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