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Checks carried out by the Police Service Northern Ireland and Security Industry Authority investigators on Saturday11th of May, found five security personnel working illegally. The PSNI and SIA investigators carried out inspections at 19 venues, checking 80 security personnel in Lurgan, Newry and Portadown. The venues included pubs, bars and nightclubs. In Lurgan, warnings were [...]

The National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the UK’s largest and Europe’s busiest exhibition centre has chosen Axis cameras and Genetec’s unified security platform, Security Center, to help it improve the effectiveness of its security and traffic teams, ensuring it becomes the UK’s venue of choice. The venue is located on a 610-acre site just outside of [...]

Securitas Security Services (UK) Ltd have recently been awarded the contract to be the sole provider of security solutions to Marks & Spencer across their UK and Ireland stores. The contract with Marks & Spencer will see Securitas take on security services in regions that were previously provided by MITIE Facilities Management, and will involve supplying [...]

Kings Security Systems has created and launched its own Training Academy that will promote skills excellence across the company and provide ongoing development to its 579 security professionals across the UK. The move will further catapult Kings to the forefront of training and development in the security industry. Anthony King, managing director of Kings said: [...]

One of Dublin’s major Garda Stations has been fitted out with new cell doors incorporating UK lock manufacturer Pickersgill-Kaye Ltd’s products as part of an on-going modernisation programme to improve health and safety in Republic of Ireland police cells. Pickersgill-Kaye’s cell lock and custodial hatch fulfilled the Irish government’s Office of Public Works (OPW) requirements [...]

Lock snapping as a means of forced entry into homes is on the increase, but it’s a crime that can be easily beaten. With the intention of highlighting both the lock snapping issue and the solution on a nationwide platform, the Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network has recruited Avocet Hardware as its primary sponsor for [...]

If the security boom is over then it seems that end users haven’t got the message, with 45 percent claiming that their security budget had increased during 2012, according to an end-user survey conducted by IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS). In the survey of almost 200 representatives from end users of [...]

Reliance High-Tech retains the NHS framework to secure over 40,000 of the country’s healthcare staff with its Reliance Protect lone worker protection solution Following the conclusion of a full retender process Reliance High-Tech has retained its Framework Agreement with the NHS to protect staff across the UK with its market leading lone worker protection solution, [...]

Entirely British developed and produced 5 Megapixel, 360° IP camera range, with no moving parts and on-board Dewarping now all comply with ONVIF AMG Systems, the British manufacturer of sophisticated Megapixel cameras and CCTV transmission technology announces that all their 5 Megapixel 360 degrees cameras are now ONVIF compliant. Since joining the Open Network Video [...]

World’s oldest annual marathon targeted in potential terror attack, By CHRIS YATES for COUNTER TERROR EXPO UK authorities will conduct an urgent review of security arrangements for the upcoming London Marathon, following a dual bombing that killed three people and injured over a hundred others at the finishing line for the Boston Marathon. The explosions, [...]