There comes a point in the life of many businesses when they have to ask themselves questions like ‘Is my business likely to suffer from some sort of criminal activity?’ or ‘how easy is it for an intruder or vandal to badly damage the ability of the business to operate?’ This may have been brought…
It must be said that the picture is not a happy one. According to one survey, 88% of businesses report that physical security incidents have stayed the same or increased in 2025, most of them expecting the problem to get worse in 2026. Workplace violence Workplace violence is the area causing the most concern, retail…
With the World Cup and a series of heatwaves, there is certainly a lot going on at the moment. Both of these have an impact on business, late arrivals due to lack of sleep because of the heat (or watching a late match!), with the heat also causing other issues like false fire or intruder…
There are many things that can happen to a business if there is insufficient security in place, but for this article we are going to concentrate on break-ins and vandalism; these most often taking place at night when staff are not present – although even if they are, they are not likely to have the…
Everyone loves a holiday, a chance to get away from it all and relax for a while. But for some, the holiday can be ruined when they return home to find that their house has been burgled or even worse ransacked by intruders. Luckily, this does not happen very often, but when it does, it…
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is the body responsible for maintaining the standards of companies providing security services to businesses and private individuals in the UK. In order to work in this area, any individual needs to apply for a licence and pass the necessary tests and checks. For companies, a similar scheme is in…
It’s all too easy to believe that most crime takes place in the hours of the night when the wrongdoer is cloaked in darkness. And where this belief is taken to be fact, many people are tempted to raise their guard as the long nights of winter become a thing of the past (at least…
The idea of unexpected consequences is well known, perhaps the most famous being the one about a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon jungle, this causing a chain of events that in the end cause a major hurricane to develop in the Atlantic Ocean. One cannot blame the butterfly of course here, but perhaps…
And that is only a part of the story, as apart from helping business and homeowners by making their lives that bit more secure, Wye have been tirelessly supporting and helping the local community too. Supporting The Local Community and Businesses As a part of the celebrations, Andy, the manager and owner of Wye Security,…
Here of course we are talking about bad operators, who, one way or another cause you or your business distress. The Bad Guys, would today more than likely be more concerned with being defined as ‘guys’ than any damage they may have reeked, wanting instead to be known as ‘it’, ‘they’ or some other personal…
