Glen Kitteringham

Glen Kitteringham has worked in the security industry since 1990. He worked for The Hudson Bay Co. in loss prevention where he recognized the long-term career potential of security. With The Bay he moved into internal investigations, then conducted insurance fraud investigations with Bison Security Group and was a site supervisor with Minion Protection Services. In 1997, he joined Brookfield Properties as Manager, Security & Life Safety and left in 2010, as Director, Security & Life Safety for Western Canada. He now consults globally via Kitteringham Security Group, Inc. in a number of sectors including commercial real estate, contract security, education, resources, health care, government, places of worship, and publishing.

He is a Doctor of Security Risk Management (University of Portsmouth) and holds a Master of Science in Security & Crime Risk Management (University of Leicester) and holds qualifications in criminology, security management, adult learning, workplace learning, e-learning and business management. He has undertaken research into several areas including: offender perspectives and their decision-making process in shop theft, laptop theft, security practitioners’ perspectives of the Alberta Basic Security Training Programme, crime prevention through environmental design in the commercial high-rise, crime pattern analysis in multi-tenanted commercial high-rise properties, how security officers manage workplace violence, security officer duties and task complexity, security officer and patrol services competencies, and security officer retention. He has been published over 250 times on a variety of topics. His book Security & Life Safety in the Commercial High-Rise was published in 2007. His CRISP Report, “Lost Laptops=Lost Data,” was published in 2008. His book The Science and Art of Security Risk Assessment was published in 2021.