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Last month, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) suspended more than 130 SIA licences as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Door supervisor puts out fire, prevents explosion and saves lives.
Two Aberdare nightclub door supervisors have been sentenced following a brutal attack on a customer over the August Bank Holiday weekend last year.
On 29 October, Jacqueline Taggart was found guilty at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court of working while her Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence was suspended.
He was subsequently convicted of working while his SIA licence was suspended.
Advice to the UK private security industry following Tuesday's announcement.
Accrington security boss barred from industry after failing to check staff licence.
A Lancashire company director who provided unlicensed security staff to a school has had his case referred to a higher court for sentencing
We are updating the qualifications needed for an SIA licence.
We are proposing a code of conduct for security operatives.
A security operative at the former Great Yarmouth Marina Centre saved the life of a man who stabbed himself in the neck before running into the North Sea.
A London-based security officer stepped in as emergency midwife to help a young mother who started giving birth on her way to the Royal London Hospital.
Taunton security boss was fined at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court on 30 September for deploying unlicensed security following our prosecution of him.
A man pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to charges of fraud and working without a licence
Security Industry Authority appoints its Director of Inspections and Enforcement as Acting Chief Executive.
Door supervisor Connor McMillan saved the life of a man who was stabbed near Crown Point Shopping Car Park in Denton, Greater Manchester.
A man has been sentenced at Blackburn Magistrates' Court after he admitted working illegally as security at the Berkley Club in Accrington.
A Brighton man pleaded guilty to working as an unlicensed security guard at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Friday 11 September.
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