August 12, 2019

Facilities management company the Westgrove Group has declared its first Mental Health Awareness Week a big success. Over the course of the week the company sent out daily advice and information to its colleagues to help build awareness of mental health. Colleagues were also signposted to advice on podcasts and videos and given tools to […]

August 7, 2019

Following the introduction of the new Security Industry Authority  Approved Contractor Scheme Self-Assessment Workbook on 1 April 2019, the SIA have now published the chart below showing the Contractor Scores of the 184 companies audited during the period 1 April to 30 June 2019. Based on the SIA ACS scores which were published for the […]

July 29, 2019

Among our coverage of the IFSEC 2019 exhibition in the August print issue of Professional Security magazine, we feature one of the presentations to NSI-approved companies, on the inspectorate’s stand on the show floor. For IFSEC was the occasion for several newly-accredited NSI companies to officially receive their certification from the inspectorate. We spoke to […]

July 18, 2019

Last week, from 10 to 12 July, The Security Industry Authority and HMRC carried out joint operations in London, Cardiff and Newcastle to identify illegal working practices and tax fraud in the private security industry. Teams attended 65 venues and spoke to over a hundred security operatives to check that they were legitimately employed, that […]

The first week of July saw Oakpark Security undertake our annual external assessment as required by our membership of the Security Industry Authority’s Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS). The ACS is a voluntary oversight program developed by the Security Industry Authority designed to establish baseline performance standards in the delivery of outsourced security services and to recognize areas of ‘best […]

June 26, 2019

Last Thursday (20 June) Steven Nixon (47) of Portadown and owner of Eventsafe Security was imprisoned for four months. Mr Nixon ignored his 100-hours community service order which was part of the sentence handed to him at Antrim Crown Court on 12 December 2018. Last December following our prosecution Nixon was sentenced to nine-month’s imprisonment for fraud, […]

United Guarding Services Limited is the latest SIA ACS company, with a score in the top 15% of all accredited organisations, to join The ACS Pacesetters.  They are proud to be one of the first companies to be accredited with SIA ACS status when the scheme was introduced in 2006. This privately-owned company has been trading […]

June 19, 2019

The SIA is running a national campaign in June and July that aims to make the night-time economy a safer place for both security staff and people on nights out. The campaign, which kicks off on Monday 17 June, will involve SIA investigators visiting pubs, bars, and clubs in towns and cities across the UK […]

June 10, 2019

On Tuesday 4 June in Luton, Robert Dass pleaded guilty to two counts under the Private Security Industry Act; of working as an unlicensed security director and a security manager. We brought the prosecution against Dass, who admitted being the director of Roberts Nationwide Support Services Ltd. His guilty plea came ahead of a trial […]

June 7, 2019

On Friday 31 May, G.W.E Security Ltd pleaded guilty at Paisley Sheriff Court to supplying unlicensed security guards to a construction site at Westmuir Street in Glasgow. The operations manager of G.W.E Security, David Scott also pleaded guilty. The company was fined £1350 for providing an unlicensed security guard and David Scott was fined £450 […]