For local authorities, Martyn’s Law is not just another compliance exercise. Lloyd Major, Founder and CEO of Halo Solutions, argues that councils need shared standards, reliable audit trails and real-time coordination to manage the growing pressure on public safety teams.
A single-venue operator masters one building, one crew, one control room, show after show. A local authority doesn’t get that luxury — the same team might run a community festival one month and a headline act the next, delivered by anyone from seasoned professionals to first-time volunteers. In a new piece for Open Access Government, our founder and CEO Lloyd Major argues that this variation is exactly why local authorities need something a single-venue operator never has to build: a shared standard that holds regardless of who’s running the event.
Lloyd draws on nearly a decade working alongside Luton Borough Council — Halo’s first-ever paying client, back in 2018 — to make the case. Luton International Carnival, marking its 50th anniversary this year, is the clearest proof point: real-time coordination across sixteen-plus partner agencies helped reunite three missing people within minutes rather than hours, among 21 emergencies the Carnival’s teams managed through Halo that year. The same system supported Luton and Bedford’s Covid marshals through 2020, the kind of local effort the Prime Minister himself singled out at the time.
The piece also digs into where Martyn’s Law and the incoming Hillsborough Law actually differ — one sets a baseline for audit trails, the other raises what’s specifically expected of a public authority on top of it — and offers a practical starting point for any council unsure where its own exposure sits.
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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.
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