If you’re planning to head on holiday this Easter, or this summer, make sure you check with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) before you book to ensure you’re not going to end up somewhere that isn’t safe or you might be at risk from terrorism. The FCO provides comprehensive and up-to-date foreign travel [...]
We’re delighted to announce that we have received our very first commission for a rental panic room for a commercial client in the south of England. Having designed the panic room to the client’s desired specifications, we are now at the build stage and the planned install is scheduled to take place towards the [...]
On 26th June 2015, 38 guests staying at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse, Tunisia were killed when jihadist, Seifeddine Rezgui, opened fire indiscriminately on the hotel’s beach in one of the country’s most appalling terror attacks. At the end of February, a coroner ruled that all 30 British victims of the attack were ‘unlawfully [...]
If you’ve ever watched the news after a terror attack you will probably have heard the newsreader or reporter refer to ‘the terror level’ or ‘terror level threat’. But what actually is a terror level threat and what do they mean? “Terror threat levels are designed to give a broad indication of the likelihood of [...]
Germany and France both suffered devastating attacks last year with terrorists driving lorries into crowds of people in Berlin and Nice. Security specialists are now fearing the worst for Spain as ISIS has vowed to take revenge on the country for rounding up hundreds of terror suspects over the last few months. David Videcette, a [...]
The terror attack ten days ago at one of the world’s most famous and popular tourist attractions, the Louvre museum in Paris, thankfully didn’t result in any loss of life. Having read about the attack in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/paris-knife-attack-louvre-evacuated-police-reportedly-shoot/ we were very interested to note that: “hundreds of panicked visitors at the Louvre were rushed [...]
We’ve just booked our tickets for the Security & Counter Terror Expo 2017 at Olympia in London on 3-4th May. If you’re heading to the expo and would like to meet up for an informal discussion about any of our products or services, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we’ll set something up. [...]
Yet another hotel has come under attack from terrorists with a number of people killed and injured by Al-Shabab fighters, this time in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/25/15-dead-islamists-storm-mogadishu-hotel/ The question that many people ask when an incident of this nature occurs is “how could this be prevented from happening again?” The team here at The [...]
If you want to have flexibility around having a safe room or simply have access to a panic room for a set period of time for additional security, we’ve got just the answer. Explains Paul Weldon, managing director of The Panic Room Company: “Renting a safe room is a highly affordable and flexible alternative [...]
We are in the final stages of completing our latest safe room install at a private residence in a highly affluent area of London. Forming part of a full refurbishment of the property by its new owners, we were brought in as a specialist by the architect and, following a comprehensive consultation and risk [...]