Pendry Risk Management was founded in 2005 by its CEO and Senior Consultant Richard C Pendry. Richard served in the Parachute Regiment before entering into private security in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion of 2003. Since then he has constantly been involved in providing security advice to organizations that find themselves in challenging environments.
Richard has a degree in Security and Risk Management (Leicester) and a
master’s degree in Terrorism and Political Violence (St Andrews). He is also a
member of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM), has written articles for industry magazines and has appeared on UK TV and radio as a subject matter expert.
Pendry Risk Management’s training courses are unique to the company. The subject matter has been accumulated by experts who have spent decades in the field ensuring the safety of their clients and includes the most up-to-date intelligence.
Understanding risk gives you one of the most important tools there is to achieve success. Risk management will help you look forward to see off threats, and also seize opportunities… READ MORE
Crisis management and crisis management planning can protect organisations against complete failure if/when a catastrophic disruption happens…READ MORE
Terrorism Awareness & Counter-Terrorism Strategies Training Course, aims to improve knowledge of the threat to businesses and public areas so that business resilience and security may be reviewed…READ MORE
This one day course gives an overview of the principles, terminology and practice of Business Continuity Management, based on the Business Continuity Institute’s Good Practice Guidelines…READ MORE
Recent events in Afghanistan in which another NGO worker was kidnapped, prompted me to write an article for organisations working in an environment with a K&R threat, on how best to protect themselves. Carrying on with this theme. I’ve enlisted the help of Blue Cole, a leading figure within the field of Kidnap & Ransom Training, to talk […]
Puntland, Somalia: Threat Assessment is a precis of an indepth report researched in the regional capital Garowe over a one month period. The research methodology involved in-country interviews with Puntland government ministers, members of the Puntland Security Forces and international aid and development actors. It has been upadated for release in June 2016, but must […]
In the wake of the civil war that erupted again in South Sudan in mid-July 2016, I’ve done an assessment after the violence, highlighting the dire situation that the world youngest country is facing. The current situation in SSD continues to deteriorate with fighting reported throughout the country. Fractures within the political and military landscape continue, […]
Inspire is a magazine for Islamic extremists. Much as you or I would buy a periodical on cycling, gardening or what ever else takes your fancy, so todays terrorists literaly look for insperation on how best to spread their sick ideology. The latest thing trending for terrorists is to how to DERAIL TRAINS. Inspire is an al Qaeda […]
News of another attack on the infamous Intercontinental hotel in Kabul, resulting of the slaughter of at least 40 – but this number will probably rise as the full extent of the attack will come to light. To anyone involved with Kabul, it’s history repeating itself, as the hotel was attacked back in 2011 with 21 […]
UK COMPANIES MUST HAVE A RISK ASSESSMENT It is a legal requirement for employers to have a risk assessment, the law stating that employers must identify the dangers within their operational environment and then take steps to reduce the severity of the risks impact should they occur. Trips and falls, working at height, manual handling, are topics that […]
BUSINESS’ CAN BE SUED AFTER A TERRORIST ATTACK Were you aware that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers, the New York Port Authority was sued by people who got caught up in the attack and had to pay £35.5 million in compensation? Did you also know that the owner of the […]
THE TASK AT HAND The Private Security Industry has taken on a far more salient role in protecting the spaces that we frequent in our daily lives, with the Security Industry Authority ensuring that security companies and their people are screened and trained to a rudimentary level. However, as their responsibilities increase and the services provided by […]
Reputational Crisis Management. How Well Prepared Is Your Organisation? Crisis Hits Organisations Hard In February 2018, news broke that Oxfam aid workers had been involved with prostitutes while working for the charity after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The charity was accused of trying to hide the unsavoury incident to avoid tarnishing its reputation. Richard […]
RADICALIZATION RISK IN THE UK. A LOOK AT THE ALL FEMALE TERROR CELL THE ‘MAD HATTERS’ Court artist file sketch dated 11/05/17 by Elizabeth Cook of (left to right) Mina Dich, 43, Rizlaine Boular, 21, and Khawla Barghouthi, 20 (Elizabeth Cook/PA) source Recent headlines in the UK have focused on the Mad Hatters Terror Plot and an […]
What is a crisis? I am often asked this question and to be honest there is not one answer as to every organisation a crisis will look, act and feel different. However, the common descriptor that appears in virtually all the reports I’ve read on the phenomenon have described the event as ‘overwhelming.’ The new […]
How Will Your Business, or Organisation Respond To Crisis? There are many organisations that have no response in place to manage a crisis situation. The fact of the matter is that they’re flying by the seat of their pants, operating under a misguided notion that because nothing bad has happened to them so far, then […]
International Terrorism, a Game of Smoke & Mirrors? International Terrorism is a difficult subject to understand and an even harder one to explain, especially when you’re trying to elucidate the various nuances of the phenomenon to a bunch of savvy third year students at one of the UKs leading universities. Nevertheless, that was an objective […]