This edition of our Newsletter is dedicated to The ACS Pacesetters Achievement Awards Lunch held on the 24th May. The event was attended by our member companies, end users of contract security and a very impressive group of Security Officers of Distinction. The ACS Pacesetters are companies in the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme who have […]
On 27 May 2016, Capital UK Services Ltd and directors Judith Wanyoike and Stephen Mungai were sentenced for supplying unlicensed security guards at Nottingham Magistrates. The court heard that Capital UK Services Ltd provided eleven security operatives who were unlicensed, across two large contracts occasions. The first was between August 2013 and February 2014 when […]
At the ACS Pacesetters Security Officer of Distinction Awards lunch which took place on Tuesday, 24 May, a charity raffle was held with all proceeds going to Medical Detection Dogs. Sue Surbey, accompanied by her assistance dog Casper, attended the lunch and gave us an insight into how these dogs allow people suffering from life […]
On 25 May 2016, the director of Paramount Monitoring and Response Ltd, James Lovett and the operations manager, James Turner were sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates Court. Their sentencing follows the guilty pleas Paramount Monitoring and Response Ltd and Lovett entered in previous hearings and Turner’s guilty verdict on 22 April 2016. It was during the […]
The third ACS Pacesetters Security Officer of Distinction Awards Lunch took place at Royal Windsor Racecourse yesterday, 24th May, and was attended by many of our members, their clients, industry associations, end-users of security and most importantly the Security Officers nominated to receive an Award. The Security Officers receiving the awards were nominated by the […]
ExcluSec Security Solutions Limited is the latest company to join the ACS Pacesetters. After making it their target to meet the criteria for membership, they excelled in their recent ACS inspection and applied for membership the same day. The privately owned company was established by Managing Director, James Bancroft, in 2010 to provide professional security […]
Since 1998 the security guarding industry has utilised travel and subsistence tax planning opportunities to alleviate ever increasing costs of employment. The opportunity arose by swapping legitimate business expenses incurred by employees for taxable pay. This mechanism is more commonly referred to as salary sacrifice. At the turn of the 2015/16 tax year, new legislation […]
On 22 April 2016, at Nottingham Magistrates Court, James Turner was found guilty of providing unlicensed guards and other offences under the Private Security Industry Act, PSIA (2001). Turner was the Operations Manager at Paramount Monitoring and Response Ltd. The director, James Lovett, pleaded guilty to offences under the PSIA (2001) at an earlier hearing. […]
We are pleased to welcome ICTS (UK) Limited to the growing membership of The ACS Pacesetters. One of the largest subsidiaries of ICTS Europe, ICTS UK & Ireland is a professional services firm, specialising in security risk which has been supporting clients across a wide range of sectors for 30 years. ICTS manages risk, enhances […]
On Tuesday 22 March at Luton Crown Court, Robert Dass, the director of Nationwide Security Management Ltd, was found guilty of supplying multiple unlicensed guards. The court heard that Nationwide Security Management Ltd supplied unlicensed security guards across England from June 2014 to June 2015. During an inspection at Meadow Shopping Centre in Sheffield, SIA […]