Feral Jundi

Thursday, November 6, 2008

News: Security Industry Authority Chief Quits

Filed under: News,United Kingdom — Tags: , , — Matt @ 1:03 PM

    Boy, interesting news on this and SIA is not that popular with the security contracting community across the pond.  (Please see Robin Barratt’s article about his views on the SIA.)  Handing out licenses for 6,600 illegal immigrants is somewhat alarming and hopefully new leadership will get a handle on this stuff.  –Head Jundi

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Security licence body chief quits

2008/11/06 

The chief executive of the government body which licenses bouncers and other security workers has resigned.

Mike Wilson, head of the Security Industry Authority, stepped down after it emerged that some of its own agency staff had not been security cleared.

Home Office minister Alan Campbell said plans were being made to replace Mr Wilson following “some failings”.

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