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UK needs 62,000 new security officers to meet soaring demand and ensure public safety in 2023

The UK’s private security industry must recruit, train and license more than 62,000 new security officers over the next 12 months to keep up with the growing demand for their services and keep the public safe, according to the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), the trade body for the professional security industry in the UK. […]

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Michelle Russell named SIA Chief Executive

Michelle Russell has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the Security Industry Authority (SIA), the organisation responsible for regulating the private security industry in the United Kingdom. Russell has been serving as Acting Chief Executive of SIA since October 2020.  The regulator’s new Chief Executive has over 25 years’ experience of working in regulation and regulatory environments

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SIA publishes ‘snapshot’ profile of door supervision sector

Data from the SIA licensing system shows that the number of door supervisor licences and licence applications is the highest it has been in the last decade. Being the first report in a series of private security industry profiles undertaken by the SIA, responses to the survey suggest that some companies within the sector have

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