What is IPSA?

IPSA as an established and recognised world-wide professional organisation, provides, in accordance with growing demand, a specialised unrivalled service to industry/commerce. There are no geographical boundaries in operation and the highest technical standards are stringently applied in all our dealings.

The Association operates within the framework of fourteen regions which includes many overseas countries. There is a clear understanding which is spelt out in all our literature that the Association has no trade union or political connections or aspirations.

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE AS FOLLOWS

TO ESTABLISH, promote and encourage the science and professional practice of industrial and commercial security and all operations and expedients connected therewith.

TO PROMOTE and make more effective security measures and to improve the status of the individual by promoting a close liaison between all members of the profession, thus making possible an exchange of ideas, knowledge, information and experience in all matters of common interest and mutual concern.

TO PROVIDE and to promote a means for maintaining a comprehensive body of the security profession and to collect, collate, co-ordinate, and distribute by any means deemed advisable, data, information, ideas, knowledge, methods and techniques for the benefit and improvement of the security profession and its members.

TO ESTABLISH, foster and encourage ethical and professional standards of work and conduct for members of the security profession and to take all such steps as are necessary and expedient in this connection.

TO MAKE SURVEYS AND STUDIES, hold conferences, forums and training courses and arrange for the presentation of lectures and the reading of papers on matters and problems of interest to members of the Association: to foster, promote, encourage and facilitate discussion, study, and research on matters and problems of all kinds connected with security; and generally to collect and disseminate in any manner or by any means deemed appropriate, information of interest to the Association members or to the public at large.

TO OPERATE for the benefit of the industry, commerce, the industrial security professional in general and Association Members in particular, an Appointments Bureau.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS CATEGORIES OF MEMBERSHIP COVERING

• Persons wholly employed in the industry
• Persons who are preparing to come into the industry (i.e. Police Officers, Members of the Armed Forces, students, etc.)
• Security Guarding Organisations
• Door Supervisors
• Businesses engaged in the manufacture or supply of security equipment.
• Training Companies
• Consultant Companies
• Organisations who employ their own security staff.
• Plus other types of business. See "About Membership" for more details

What Can IPSA Provide?

IPSA offers membership to those employed in Industrial or Commercial Security and to those companies who supply services or materials used in connection with Industrial or Commercial Security.

The Association provides a number of training courses for Industrial or Commercial Security personnel and management. See Training.

Enquiries about membership of the Association should be addressed to:

THE ASSOCIATION SECRETARY, IPSA, Northumberland House, 11 The Pavement, Popes Lane, Ealing, London, England W5 4NG
or via our contact page.