September 11, 2019

​A Staffordshire door supervisor was fined on 02 September at North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court after he was caught working at Moorville Hall Hotel, Werrington, despite his licence having been revoked by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) Kevin Warburton, 50, of Stoke, pleaded guilty to working in a licensable security operative role whilst unlicensed, and was […]

September 9, 2019

Venture Security has become the first to be accredited by Wiltshire Police under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS). As elsewhere in England and Wales, this gives security officers low level police powers, typically to help tackle anti-social behaviour. Pictured left to right are front, PC Alan Cromwell, CCSO Mark East, and Acting Inspector John […]

September 3, 2019

Atticus Risk Management Limited is the latest company to join The ACS Pacesetters which promotes the companies in the top 15% of all SIA ACS accredited organisations. Privately owned Atticus Risk Management support a range of private, state and commercial clients across the UK to maintain a secure environment for commence, learning and recreation, protect […]

August 22, 2019

On the 20 August 2019 Lee Brown, 29, of Belfast pleaded guilty to five offences of fraud, forgery and counterfeiting licences belonging to other people at Laganside Magistrates’ Court, following a prosecution the SIA brought against him. He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment (on each count), served concurrently suspended for 12 months. He was […]

August 19, 2019

Facilities management specialist Westgrove Group has enjoyed a successful first half of 2019 with a continuing growth in new business. The company, based in Warrington, has secured a wealth of new contracts with many of them in the south of England as it continues to strength its business across the UK. Westgrove provides its security, […]

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 […]