Sub: An Appeal to Help Build Secure India.
‘Sent herewith a copy of An Appeal we have sent out to:
Chambers of Commerce – National / State.
CMDs of PSUs / Private Industries.
CMDs of Banks.
Select Industrialists.
May be you will find it useful. And, should you think it appropriate, you may also share this with those thought fit by you.
Best regards,
Yours sincerely,
D.C. Nath
Encl: As stated.
No.IISSM/DEL/4/2009- Dated December 16, 2008
Dear Sir,
Subject: An Appeal to Help Build Secure India.
This is with best compliments from IISSM.
The International Institute of Security and Safety Management (IISSM) and its activities would perhaps be known to you. Ours is a registered educational organisation (website: http://www.iissm.com), engaged in promoting professionalism both among security and other senior management executives, directly or indirectly involved in security management in industries.
The cataclysmic event in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, appropriately described as “the seminal event in the history of international terrorism, particularly in the history of global jihad” and as “more sophisticated and logistically more complicated than even 9/11,” was, to all intents and purposes, aimed at crippling the burgeoning Indian economy. As an Institute engaged in bringing about improvement in security management in the country and all over, we therefore felt greatly enthused by recent structured response from business associations like the Confederation of India Industries (CII) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as also the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Indeed, corporate houses as also industrialists, big or small, have a big role to play in defending the national economy and serving the cause of national security.
We are keenly aware that many enlightened and forward-looking industrialists had after 9/11 initiated steps to overhaul or augment the security systems in their group or groups. Even then, in the surcharged security ambience in the country, we take the liberty of making the following suggestions for your consideration:
Please accept and accord recognition to security business as a part of the overall business procedure of your industry.
Please do not remain satisfied by employing a senior or qualified retired police or armed force officer. Please formulate a basic and formal comprehensive security policy, not only for the Security Division but also for all concerned in your esteemed organisation/industry. That will facilitate structured implementation and fix accountability.
Please do not ignore developing the security infrastructure while planning an integrated security management system.
Please take your Security Division into confidence and expose to it your risk potential in as much details as possible, may be just as you do in respect of the audit group. Better the exposure, better the services that the Security Division can render. The results of such exposure have often been more than expected.
Please accept that Industrial Security is, as we, from the platform of IISSM have been demonstrating, is a Total Management Function that includes risk management as well as loss prevention, the raison de etre of security’s existence.
Please add security risks including terrorism to the cost of doing business and thus factor security management into your regular budget and not treat it as a necessary evil that can be dispensed with in times of economic downswing. Cheap security is no security and good security costs money.
A third-party security auditing of your existing security arrangements will be highly desirable. Though one can surely access foreign experts, it is good to know that a fair amount of professionalism in this area has over the years developed inside the country also.
Please encapsulate and build security education into your CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy. After all, security is a business of all, for all and by all. Your employees will then help build up the national resilience against all forms of security threats including terrorism. Time is perhaps appropriate to turn current emotional response of people into constructive and participative mode so that they learn to accept responsibility and discharge the Fundamental Duties enshrined in Article 51-A of the Constitution of India.
Well Sir, these are some of our broad suggestions for your consideration. You may have already initiated appropriate steps. In any case, we from the IISSM offer our services, if felt necessary, at any stage.
At the end, we wish to humbly underscore that this is no effort to create or expand security business. This is, as we have highlighted in the beginning, an appeal to help build a secure India and it is our honest perception/belief that the trump card to achieve that lies in your hands.
‘Hope to be excused for inflicting this lengthy unsolicited submission for whatever worth it is at this stage. If thought appropriate, ‘may like to consider forwarding our submission to your constituent members in the manner thought best by you.
Thanking you and with best regards,
Yours sincerely,
(D.C. Nath)
To
All Chambers of Commerce – National/State.
‘Sent herewith a copy of An Appeal we have sent out to:
Chambers of Commerce – National / State.
CMDs of PSUs / Private Industries.
CMDs of Banks.
Select Industrialists.
May be you will find it useful. And, should you think it appropriate, you may also share this with those thought fit by you.
Best regards,
Yours sincerely,
D.C. Nath
Encl: As stated.
No.IISSM/DEL/4/2009- Dated December 16, 2008
Dear Sir,
Subject: An Appeal to Help Build Secure India.
This is with best compliments from IISSM.
The International Institute of Security and Safety Management (IISSM) and its activities would perhaps be known to you. Ours is a registered educational organisation (website: http://www.iissm.com), engaged in promoting professionalism both among security and other senior management executives, directly or indirectly involved in security management in industries.
The cataclysmic event in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, appropriately described as “the seminal event in the history of international terrorism, particularly in the history of global jihad” and as “more sophisticated and logistically more complicated than even 9/11,” was, to all intents and purposes, aimed at crippling the burgeoning Indian economy. As an Institute engaged in bringing about improvement in security management in the country and all over, we therefore felt greatly enthused by recent structured response from business associations like the Confederation of India Industries (CII) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as also the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Indeed, corporate houses as also industrialists, big or small, have a big role to play in defending the national economy and serving the cause of national security.
We are keenly aware that many enlightened and forward-looking industrialists had after 9/11 initiated steps to overhaul or augment the security systems in their group or groups. Even then, in the surcharged security ambience in the country, we take the liberty of making the following suggestions for your consideration:
Please accept and accord recognition to security business as a part of the overall business procedure of your industry.
Please do not remain satisfied by employing a senior or qualified retired police or armed force officer. Please formulate a basic and formal comprehensive security policy, not only for the Security Division but also for all concerned in your esteemed organisation/industry. That will facilitate structured implementation and fix accountability.
Please do not ignore developing the security infrastructure while planning an integrated security management system.
Please take your Security Division into confidence and expose to it your risk potential in as much details as possible, may be just as you do in respect of the audit group. Better the exposure, better the services that the Security Division can render. The results of such exposure have often been more than expected.
Please accept that Industrial Security is, as we, from the platform of IISSM have been demonstrating, is a Total Management Function that includes risk management as well as loss prevention, the raison de etre of security’s existence.
Please add security risks including terrorism to the cost of doing business and thus factor security management into your regular budget and not treat it as a necessary evil that can be dispensed with in times of economic downswing. Cheap security is no security and good security costs money.
A third-party security auditing of your existing security arrangements will be highly desirable. Though one can surely access foreign experts, it is good to know that a fair amount of professionalism in this area has over the years developed inside the country also.
Please encapsulate and build security education into your CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy. After all, security is a business of all, for all and by all. Your employees will then help build up the national resilience against all forms of security threats including terrorism. Time is perhaps appropriate to turn current emotional response of people into constructive and participative mode so that they learn to accept responsibility and discharge the Fundamental Duties enshrined in Article 51-A of the Constitution of India.
Well Sir, these are some of our broad suggestions for your consideration. You may have already initiated appropriate steps. In any case, we from the IISSM offer our services, if felt necessary, at any stage.
At the end, we wish to humbly underscore that this is no effort to create or expand security business. This is, as we have highlighted in the beginning, an appeal to help build a secure India and it is our honest perception/belief that the trump card to achieve that lies in your hands.
‘Hope to be excused for inflicting this lengthy unsolicited submission for whatever worth it is at this stage. If thought appropriate, ‘may like to consider forwarding our submission to your constituent members in the manner thought best by you.
Thanking you and with best regards,
Yours sincerely,
(D.C. Nath)
To
All Chambers of Commerce – National/State.
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