In this piece for Professional Security Magazine, Lloyd Major, CEO of Halo Solutions and former counter-terrorism officer, responds to the Public Office (Accountability) Bill — widely known as the Hillsborough Law — clearing its second reading in the House of Lords on 1 September and moving into Committee stage.

Lloyd’s argument follows on from a point he’s made about Martyn’s Law before: a legal duty doesn’t create the culture it’s meant to protect. Legislation can set the expectation, but it can’t build the habits that make an organisation ready to meet it. That has to happen on the ground, incident by incident, long before anyone comes asking questions.

For security teams specifically, he argues duty of candour lands somewhere particular — they’re often the people closest to a decision, and the first asked to account for it afterwards. Without a reliable, contemporaneous record, a right call and a wrong one can end up looking identical on paper, which he frames as a genuinely unfair position to leave frontline staff in.

This is Lloyd’s second published piece connecting the Hillsborough Law to operational readiness, following an earlier interview for FSM in December 2025. Where that piece introduced the argument, this one sharpens it specifically for a security-industry readership — asking not whether the law is right, but whether the evidence it demands already exists.

Read it here