Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026

Time: 10:00 - 11:00 ( GMT ) 

Venue: Online

An update on the Terrorism: Protection of Premises Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) and other Counter Terrorism matters from the Home Office Department of Homeland Security.  

Speaker:

Shaun Hipgrave is Director Protect and Prepare, two of the Ps from the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy CONTEST.  He has been serving the public either in the Amry, Police or Civil Service for over 30 year and has spent 13 years in the private sector.

He was the former Head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSARC) in the Homeland Security Group of the Home Office, which runs the Home Office Security and Policing show every year and is the main route for Home Office engagement with the security industry sector and the prosperity agenda.

Shaun has been working in the security sector for over 25 years.  After serving in the British Army, he joined Northumbria Police where he served for 13 years, mainly in investigation and intelligence roles.  In 2003 he joined the private sector combinating being the Managing Director of FTS, a services and software forensic telecoms company focused in the criminal justice space and spending 5 years with IBM.

In Shaun’s current role he is responsible for the protection for people and places from National Security threats, the SRO of Martyn’s Law, The Senior Sponsor of the Security Industry Authority, and has been leading the work to support he victims of terrorism since 2019. 

** Open to SyI Members, OSAC & CTPN only **