December 6, 2019

The director of a security firm has pleaded guilty to repeatedly deploying an unlicensed doorman to venues around Leeds. Haidar Mumtaz, a former director of 2 B Secure from Keighley, sent Steven Hare from Bradford to work as security at the Baracoa, the Rosse, and the Bierkeller in Leeds on no fewer than 24 occasions […]

November 21, 2019

The Westgrove Group, one of the UK’s leading independent facilities management companies, has been nominated for a prestigious diversity awareness award. The Warrington based company is a finalist in the Kimberly-Clark Professional Golden Service Awards 2020. Held biennially, the awards were created 30 years ago to reward the excellence of facilities management and cleaning teams […]

November 20, 2019

​The director of a Suffolk company has been convicted at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court of supplying unlicensed security guards to haulage companies operating at the port of Felixstowe. Anthony Blackman, the director of Port Side Solutions Ltd of Ipswich, pleaded guilty to providing two unlicensed operatives on 12 separate occasions. He was sentenced on 11 November […]

November 19, 2019

As of 1st November 2019, there were 357,031 individuals holding one or more current SIA licence, of these 8,046 were non-front-line licences. By far, the most popular SIA licence to be held is that of a Door Supervisor, which also allows the individual to carry out front-line Security Guarding activities.  These licences account for over […]

November 18, 2019

A security boss who operated under four different identities has been jailed for more than four years for defrauding vulnerable security operatives who worked for him. John Gaines, 72, of Leamington Spa, was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on 14 November. He had been found guilty of 22 counts of fraud at Warwick on 30 […]

November 14, 2019

Green Light is delighted to announce the 3rd edition of the Behavioural Analysis conference, which will take place in London on 10-11 June 2020 at the Royal Air Force Museum. Behavioural Analysis 2020 will deliver practical insights into the behavioural analysis techniques used to identify individuals with negative intent. The conference will allow delegates to […]

Last Thursday, 7 November, Oladeji Christopher Owolabi of West London pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and one offence contrary to the Identity Documents Act at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Owolabi is now in custody pending his sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court on 5 December. He applied for conditional bail at Thursday’s hearing, which […]

November 5, 2019

​A Bolton-based security company has been fined at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court for supplying a door supervisor to a pub without checking first that he was properly licensed. Elite Security (NW) Ltd, and its area manager, Rhydian Davies, pleaded guilty on 05 November to supplying an unlicensed door supervisor to the Iron Dragon pub in […]

October 22, 2019

A former security boss has been ordered to pay £70,800 as the proceeds of crime at Antrim Crown Court on Friday 18 October. Steven Nixon, of Portadown, recently served a four-month prison service for ignoring a community service order following a conviction for fraud. This new order, given under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, […]

October 8, 2019

The jailed former owner of a Shropshire-based security business, has been ordered to pay £3,608.21 as a result of proceeds of crime proceedings. Matthew Davies and Maria Francis, both of Bridgnorth, were the former owner and director respectively of Showtime Security Guards Ltd. They appeared last Friday (04 October) at Shrewsbury Crown Court where Matthew […]