Tag: Event Security
Topher offer unique event security and parking staff for events
Established in 2007 Topher Limited are a unique company that delivers an approach to Events unlike other ‘overbearing’ security, parking management and litter picking companies. Speaking to Event Industry News Topher explained “Our USP is our mix of ex Gurkhas, who are disciplined, polite, helpful and take enormous pride in their appearance and our younger next [...]
Organisers Should Consider Splitting Security Contracts
The director of an events security firm says that organisers could see major benefits by splitting the responsibility in to smaller more manageable contracts. Ash Sanjenbam from Kingfisher Guarding says that the situation experienced at last years Olympics should prompt organisers to consider some of the smaller security providers within the events industry. “When large [...]
Showsec Celebrates Double Award Win
Showsec celebrated double February awards success, winning Best Security Company at the Event Production Awards and Favourite Crowd Management Company at the TPi Awards, 5th and 11th February. Collecting these prestigious industry awards highlighted Showsec’s continual drive to improve standards, delivering successful crowd management across cultural, music and sporting events last year, including the Queen’s [...]
G4S losses increase to £88m on Olympic security contracts
Security firm G4S has admitted the fallout from its bungled 2012 Olympics contract will cost £38m more than first thought, bringing the total loss from the fiasco to £88m. The company had initially said it expected to take a hit of £50m after it failed to provide enough security staff and forced the Games organisers [...]
National Occupational Standards for Event Security – Consultation Open Until 4th Jan
Mark Harding, Chairman of UKCMA has been working with other industry peers in liaison with Skills for Security over the past six months, with the aim to create the National Occupational Standards for Event Security. The process has now entered the consultation stage, enabling the industry to respond. An electronic questionnaire is available via the [...]
Gallowglass Security Feature
Advertising Feature Gallowglass Security was formed in 1999, in direct response to corporate event organisers, amongst whom there was a prevailing belief that standards of security in the corporate event sector were poor. Since then Gallowglass Security has evolved into a fully-fledged man guarding Company operating in a diverse range of service sectors. Security provision [...]
Protouch Security Beat Off The Competition To Win Award
A leading security company is celebrating after winning the ConocoPhillips66 Excellence in Community Relations Award at the 2012 Chamber of Commerce North Lincolnshire Business Awards ceremony. The award recognises commitment to the local community from the winning company, demonstrating how they engage with and develop a sustainable local community, and how they encourage their employees [...]
Cardinal scores Football Extravaganza security contract
Cardinal Security has been selected to provide its best-in-class security personnel services at one of the football industry’s most prestigious events, The Football Extravaganza. Held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London, The Football Extravaganza is billed as ‘the greatest football night of the year’, where the sport’s great and good are honoured for their [...]
SIA launches new 2012 Olympics page
The Security Industry Authority has launched a new page dedicated to the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ‘2012 Olympics’ page provides advice for security suppliers, security buyers and front line staff. The pages contain a section on the licensing requirements during Games time, a downloadable factsheet titled ‘Be aware and prepare’, and an [...]
Vespasian Security wins the contract to supply Event Security and Crowd Management services to Y Not Festival 2012
The Vespasian Security team is celebrating after being awarded the contract to be the sole provider of crowd management and security services to Y Not Festival 2012. Y Not Festival is a 10,000 capacity music festival held in Matlock, in the Derbyshire Peak District each August. Y Not Festival 2012 will see Vespasian Security deploy [...]
Vespasian Security wins Widcombe Rising Crowd Management Contract
Vespasian Security has been awarded the contract to supply crowd management and event security services to Widcombe Rising 2012. Vespasian Security is expanding their crowd management teams in 2012 in anticipation of a busy season of festivals and live events. Widcombe Rising is a community event in an exclusive area of Bath, Somerset. The event [...]
AP Security Enjoys A Second Summer Of Swing
After being an integral part of four highly successful outdoor shows by teen heart-throbs JLS in 2010, AP Security was asked back by promoter Dave Suter of Beat Up Music to lend the company’s expertise to five more major shows in 2011. Proving that contestants on TV’s The X Factor don’t need to win the [...]
AP Security helps to make five UK Melas a summer sensation
Melas have become an essential part of the summer in many British cities, with hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the colourful sights, varied sounds and delicious smells of a wide range of Asian cultures. AP Security has become something of a specialist in helping to ensure that these family events are enjoyed by all, [...]
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