by Ashley Bennett | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog, News, Perpetuity Training
Perpetuity Training is excited to announce an office move. We are moving from our offices in Leicester to a new location in Wigston on Friday 1st February. Our new address is Unit 14 Cornwall Business Park, Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4XH. Less than one mile from South...
by Ruth Crocker | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog, Research
Smoking kills an estimated 100,000 people a year in the UK, and about 50% of smokers are estimated as likely to die from smoking-related diseases (ash.org). There is also reported to be a great cost to society from smoking, both socially and financially as the health...
by Ruth Crocker | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog, News
Four police forces in the West Midlands have joined the Action Fraud scheme. Action Fraud is a service run by the National Fraud Authority whose job it is to co-ordinate the UK’s response to fraud. The purpose of the scheme is to act as a single point of contact...
by Ruth Crocker | Jan 3, 2013 | Blog, News
The Home Office recently announced that they would be spending an additional £500,000 to help communities combat youth violence. They also announced the expansion of their Ending Gang and Youth Violence frontline team to cover four more priority areas. Gang culture is...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog, Research
Perpetuity recently completed a piece of work for ALLOW, the London based information privacy company. In this small scale study, we spoke to an exoffender, with experience of exploiting personal information from online sources to commit fraud, in order...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog, Events
For the third year running Professor Martin Gill FSyI, Director of Perpetuity Research & Consultancy will be presenting the results from the annual SRI (Security Research Initiative) survey at The Security Institute’s Christmas Curry Night. You can read more...
by Ruth Crocker | Nov 27, 2012 | Blog, News, Video
Prof. Martin Gill recently spoke about the phenomenon of ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud on a video produced by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. This type of insurance fraud adds an estimated £50 to the annual insurance costs of individual policyholders. It...
by Ruth Crocker | Oct 26, 2012 | Blog, Conferences, Events
Today our Director, Martin Gill, is talking about how offenders beat security in a business environment at the 4th SASMA Business Security Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The conference will also feature talks on terrorism, the value of security, developments in the...
by Ruth Crocker | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, Events
On Wednesday evening we attended the Security Excellence Awards for which Perpetuity’s Security Research Initiative was a finalist for the category of Security Partnering Initiative of the Year. We have been nominated a number of times in the past for this...