This book is for service leavers, veterans, reservists, military spouses supporting transition, training providers, recruiters, employers, mentors, and civilian managers who want to understand the project value hidden inside military experience.

I have been working in the security industry both in the UK and internationally. To this end, I have put together a smorgasbord of information that can be used to help you in your security career going forward of just as a handy reference to give you some more insight, so you can make an informed decision on your personal security, that of a client or a business that you have been employed to risk assess as part of your role as a security consultant.

Security professionals in the UK occupy a strange position. They are everywhere, yet rarely understood. They are expected to notice everything, prevent anything, and explain nothing, all while standing politely out of the way. If something goes wrong, it is obviously their fault. If nothing happened, they were clearly unnecessary. Welcome to British security.

This book exists because the security profession is often discussed by people who have never worked a shift, worn a licence, or had to decide between two in the morning with limited information and no applause waiting at the end. Everyone has an opinion about security. Very few understand it. Fewer still respect the complexity involved in doing it properly.