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Developing a Security Personnel Training Manual
A reliable security personnel training manual needs to be based on facts rather than theories.

Sam Wilks
23 hours ago3 min read


Scenario-Based Training's Function in Security Operations
It's critical to be realistic. The sensory, temporal, and psychological strains of real-world security incidents should be replicated in scenarios.

Sam Wilks
Aug 293 min read


How to Assess Security Drill Training Results
Assessing training results is a morally serious exercise. It is the method by which an organisation demonstrates to both it and the people it defends that its dedication to security is genuine and not just empty rhetoric.

Sam Wilks
Aug 293 min read


Using Technology in Security Exercises and Instruction
Technology is ultimately a servant, not a master. Its purpose in security drills and training is to highlight areas of weakness, enhance learning, and make sure that each exercise leaves the organisation stronger rather than just busier.

Sam Wilks
Aug 223 min read


The Best Methods for Performing Security Exercises
The purpose of drills is to test policies against the harsh realities of real-world threats, environmental factors, and the unpredictable nature of human behaviour.

Sam Wilks
Aug 153 min read


Using Security Training with E-Learning Modules
When designed well, e-learning modules provide a special ability to impart both fundamental knowledge and situational judgement that traditional classrooms are unable to match.

Sam Wilks
Aug 152 min read


Creating an All-Inclusive Security Staff Training Programme
Induction is not the end of a thorough training programme. It is an ongoing process of improvement that involves learning from actual occurrences, adjusting to new dangers, and not settling for mediocrity.

Sam Wilks
Aug 83 min read


Behind Every Stolen Vehicle Is a Failed Policy
Behind every stolen vehicle is a policy failure, whether in law enforcement, judicial practice, or social welfare, that reduces the cost of crime and amplifies its rewards.

Sam Wilks
Jul 53 min read


20 Strategies using CPTED on your home
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) uses environmental design to deter crime and enhance safety.

Sam Wilks
Jun 273 min read


Where Elders Fear the Youth
Where elders fear the youth, respect has died, and fear rules. This collapse is not inevitable but the product of choices, choices to tolerate lawlessness, to weaken authority, and to ignore cause and effect.

Sam Wilks
Jun 273 min read


Theft as a Lifestyle
When petty crime pays more than work, the cost is high, social disorder, economic stagnation, and moral collapse. The remedy is straightforward but demanding restore accountability, enforce laws consistently, and reshape incentives so that honest labour once again becomes the rational, rewarded choice. Anything less condemns communities to poverty of character and opportunity.

Sam Wilks
Jun 263 min read


The Cost of Looking Away
Political cowardice empowers street crime by removing the deterrent power of law enforcement and judicial consequences. The remedy is straightforward but politically difficult, leaders must restore authority, support enforcement, and uphold justice firmly.
Only through such resolve can communities reclaim their streets and their security. Anything less is a concession to chaos and decline.

Sam Wilks
Jun 253 min read


Welfare-Funded Chaos
Welfare-funded chaos is a predictable outcome of systems that replace responsibility with dependency. The remedy requires restoring the balance between support and accountability, grounded in economic reality, psychological truth, and moral clarity. Only then can communities escape the cycle of dysfunction and reclaim order and prosperity.

Sam Wilks
Jun 243 min read


No Fear, No Order
Restoring order demands reestablishing consequences as central to justice. This means resisting judicial activism that prioritises ideology over deterrence, ensuring law enforcement is empowered and supported, and recognising that fear of punishment is not cruelty but a necessary condition for liberty and security.

Sam Wilks
Jun 233 min read


The Consequences of Leniency
Leniency in regional towns is not kindness but a costly failure. It fuels repeat offending, fractures communities, and saps faith in justice. The solution lies in restoring accountability through firm, consistent application of the law, a principle rooted in cause and effect, personal responsibility, and practical wisdom. Without this, regional towns risk becoming battlegrounds for unchecked crime and enduring social decay.

Sam Wilks
Jun 224 min read


From Patrol Cars to Paperwork
Restoring balance requires political will and leadership that understand policing as a practical application of cause and effect, not a managerial exercise in form-filling. The answer to crime is not more forms but more foot patrols, more patrol cars, and a judicial system that delivers swift, certain consequences. Anything less is a concession to chaos and fear.

Sam Wilks
Jun 213 min read


Silent Streets, Loud Crimes
Passive policing in remote townships is a strategic failure with profound consequences. It enables crime, undermines community trust, and destabilises society. Restoring order demands a return to policing that understands crime as a rational choice, one that can be deterred only by visible, decisive, and unwavering enforcement of the law. Anything less consigns these communities to a future where “silent streets” are a hollow euphemism for abandonment and lawlessness.

Sam Wilks
Jun 203 min read


When Youth Crime Becomes a Career Path
When youth crime becomes a career, the cure is not diversion but deterrence, a principle grounded in clear cause and effect, personal accountability, and the unyielding enforcement of law. Anything less condemns society to ongoing cycles of victimisation and disorder.

Sam Wilks
Jun 193 min read


Stop Hiring Based on Diversity, Start Hiring Based on Courage
The marketplace doesn’t care about your pronouns. A violent offender doesn’t pause for your DEI credentials. A fire, a fight, or a failure of policy doesn’t ask how many boxes your hiring team ticked. It demands competence and character. And too often, we’ve traded both for cosmetics.
It’s time to stop hiring for traits people were born with, and start hiring for what they choose, integrity, fortitude, accountability. Because when the crisis comes, and it always does, it w

Sam Wilks
Jun 183 min read


Don’t Blame the Tool, Blame the Intent
We don’t build safer societies by stripping tools from the innocent. We do it by confronting the guilty, before they strike.
Because the problem was never the tool.
It’s always been the hand that wields it.
And what is the point of giving weapons to the taxpayer funded who seldom turn up in the first place.

Sam Wilks
Jun 173 min read
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