With the growing number of young professionals entering the security industry as a first career and to encourage new members to join ASIS International, the Victoria Australia Chapter is promoting its Young Professionals Council.

The ASIS International 61st Annual Seminar and Exhibits is being conducted between 28 September and 1 October 2015 in Anaheim USA. It is anticipated around 20,000 Security colleagues will be in attendance including members of the Victoria Australia Chapter.

For those security leaders attending the Security in Government Event in Canberra please see the attached invitation to attend the ASIS ACT Chapter's Networking Event. For a small fee you will have a three course meal with like minded people in security.

The Australian House of Representatives made 11 recommendations to improving cruise ship security in a 2013 report. In November 2014 the Australian Government responded in its report Troubled waters: Inquiry into the arrangements surrounding crimes committed at sea

Members will remember a May 2015 ASIS Victoria breakfast presentation on court security by Judge Eugene Hyman at Nab, Docklands. Amongst other things Judge Hyman is an expert on strategies associated with managing domestic violence across the criminal justice system. He actually founded the first domestic violence courts in the USA.

Safe work Australia has published a guide to assist employers and other key stakeholders understand the term “reasonably practicable” in workplace health and safety.

The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation has issued updated guidelines (June 2015) to determine if a person is in a state of intoxication for the purposes of the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 (Vic).

The ASIS Victoria Strategic Plan 2015 has been developed and regularly reviewed by the Chapter Executive Committee. Members are able to login to the Members Only area of this website to review our progress to date.

Methamphetamine is a stimulant, one of the amphetamine group of drugs manufactured from readily available chemicals. Stimulants speed up the function of the brain and nervous system.

On the weekend before the ASIS International 61st Annual Seminar and Exhibits in Anaheim, California certification reviews will be held for the CPP, PSP and PCI examinations. Now is the time to move toward certification if that is your intention.