Talk:Protective security unit

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I have reverted a blank and redirect of this article to List of protective service agencies. Protective security is a broader concept than just a personal protection service. It involves developing a security policy framework and includes providing advice and guidance to organisations to build their security capability including security governance, personnel security, information security, and physical security. See Protective Security - NZSIS. I think the appropriate placement of the content of this article needs more discussion, not blanking. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 09:55, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This interpretation is broader than New Zealand, and appears in other Commonwealth countries such as Australia and the UK. One definition of Protective Security is "... protection of security-sensitive activities against espionage, sabotage, terrorist offences and other offences that may threaten those activities, and protection in other cases of classified information." In the UK there is the National Protective Security Authority. These (generally government) agencies deal with a range of security issues, not just threats to VIPs but risks to all forms of assets an organisation might possess. In the USA this might simply be called an Office of Security, but it covers the same broad concepts. The article itself is confined to a small aspect of the broader concept, perhaps because there is a lack of definition of what to write about. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 00:19, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]