The UK Home Office has admitted illegal immigrants have been mistakenly cleared for jobs as security staff. Government ministers have ordered new checks to be carried out on hundreds of thousands of security staff vetted by the Security Industry Authority over the past three years.In the interim, security managers in the UK are advised to contact their guarding contract managers to seek reassurance that the latter have carried out their own diligent pre-employment checks on foreign guards prior to deployment to clients’ premises.
Selecting a Guarding Contractor is one of a number of new sessions to be added to Security Management Stage 2, which runs 30 June - 11 July and 13 - 24 October 2008.
The session will focus on the mechanisms that have to be in place to ensure a good guarding contract, and will be led by a management representative from a leading UK guarding contractor, allowing course participants to interact and identify key elements of best practice.
