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The Security Industry Authority (SIA) since last year has gone through the most thorough review of its approved contractor scheme since it began, ten years ago. On the eve of a roadshow around the UK to announce the results - before they come into force in April 2019 - Stephen McCormick...

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has begun what it describes as a wide ranging review of the licence linked qualifications. The UK private security regulator has widened the scope of this work to consider not just the mandatory qualifications it requires, mainly for door staff, contract...

The Security Industry Authority (SIA), the UK Government regulator of the private security sector, has formerly endorsed the Register of Chartered Security Professionals. The Register was established under Royal Charter issued to the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals in the UK...

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) recently moved, from Holborn in central London to Canary ... More info... Any comments below..

Alan Clamp, pictured, CEO at the Security Industry Authority (SIA), is to step down from the regulator in the autumn. Alan will take on the role of CEO at the Professional Standards Authority, the health and social care regulator, from November 1. He said: "‘It has been a great privilege to...

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) reports a new partnership with HMRC to tackle incidents of tax fraud in the private security industry.The two say that they have been working together to identify problems in the sector, including businesses abusing employment rules, running up debts and...

In Glasgow, Police Scotland and the UK regulator the Security Industry Authority (SIA) launched on June 28 a series of events aiming to enlist front-line private security staff in countering terrorism. A pilot event ran at the Scottish Events Campus Centre in Glasgow. The sessions, which are...

In the morning conference at Security TWENTY 18 North at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate, after a welcome by Professional Security Magazine MD Roy Cooper and conference chairman Mike White, the audience heard from the chair of the UK regulator the Security Industry Authority Liz France, a return...

Now on desks is the July 2018 print issue of Professional Security magazine. As ever we aim to cover the spectrum of Uk and Ireland private security, whether manned guarding, security specifiers and consultants, installers and managers, electronic or physical or cyber security. We report from...

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has issued a tender for a new service provider to take over the support of STeP, its online licensing system. The tender was issued on June 14, in accordance with government procurement rules, as the contract with the current supplier is coming to an end...

The long-delayed Home Office review of the Security Industry Authority has been published.The bottom line is that the SIA has 'performed to a satisfactory standard as a regulator and should be retained, but now is the time to focus on how it can make changes to achieve regulatory best practice...

In recent print issues of Professional Security magazine, we've featured variations on a theme: sectors taking steps to accredit security services beyond the basic individual badge and approved contractor status run by the UK regulator, the Security Industry Authority (SIA). At universities...

As part of a review of the Security Industry Authority's approved contractor scheme (ACS), suggested changes have been welcomed by the Small Business Network (SBN). A meeting, on Tuesday, April 24 was attended by SBN representatives and others from across the sector, including the industry body...

Bespoke Griffin training for security officers, at first for Scotland, was aired by Security Industry Authority (SIA) chief executive Alan Clamp at the Security and Counter Terror Expo at London Olympia, pictured. Developed with Police Scotland and the Scottish Business Crime Centre, a trial of...

In March I had the privilege of attending the first of many meetings run by GOSS – an independent company bought in to improve standards across the Security Industry Authority (SIA), writes Paula Mathers, Assistant Director at Coverguard, an SIA approved contractor based in Milton Keynes and...