India

Kia Ora,

Well the news this morning is all terror threats again after the attacks on the Togo soccer team & how that will affect sports events in India.

India or Pakistan it is part of life & like Britain it happens & they get on with life, so attacks there will happen but in the scheme of things won't really make much impact like the 9/11 attacks did.

People are only looking short term, but really they need a longer term view. What is the connection between 9/11 & Bali. Both seen as places that there would not likely to be attacks so the impact would be greater.

Now what people often regard as a safe place, & we even have had politicians & sports people state it on international TV, is New Zealand. As they used to say in World War Two & it still applies today, "The biggest threat is the belief there is no threat".

What needs to happen is clean up the security industry here in NZ, put the processes in place so that when major events arrive here there is not the step up of great proportions that is required here at present.

One of the major issues here in NZ that when you do have good security it becomes a victim of its own success. There are problems so guards are put in place, they deal with issue or it moves on & then the number of guards are cut drastically or altogether or they get a cheaper company that doesn't actually do security & go that extra mile. Then the issue comes back.

As a building block to a higher standard of security our society needs to realize that instead of getting rid of the good security, they require the rest to lift their standards. Society must also expect to pay that little extra for that peace of mind. They buy insurance, & what is security but a form of insurance or lessening claims.