The Roll of Honour

The 2006 Security Excellence Awards Ceremony is shaping up to be a night that will live long in the memory for the 800 guests expected at London’s celebrated Hilton Hotel on Wednesday 11 October. Our chosen theme this year – a glitzy Hollywood evening complete with red carpet, Oscars and film star look-alikes – makes for a fitting backdrop to what is now the eighth Security Excellence Awards Ceremony.

Organised once again by Security Management Today (SMT), its sister security title at CMP Information, Security Installer, and the web-based network security publication Platform, the Awards are proving more popular than ever before. Tables have been selling fast, so make sure you call Jen Clark at JC Events, 62 Hazel Close, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 7NR (telephone: 020 8755 4441) to reserve your place (or send an e-mail to: buildingjen@aol.com).

Although we want everyone to have a great time and treat the Awards evening as a social event, there is a serious message to the occasion – heightened by the recent terrorist plots at our major airports. The Awards are designed to honour those companies and individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their chosen field over the past 12 months and more.

The ceremony itself is preceded by KeyNote addresses from Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in charge of policing and national security matters) and John Saunders, chief executive of the Security Industry Authority. John will update the audience on enforcement action being taken to support the Terms and Conditions laid down by regulation.

As ever, we’ll be running our hugely popular Charity Casino. The proceeds from this year’s roulette wheel gamblers will go to the Hear4U rehabilitation project for security staff who have fallen on troubled times (‘The Company and SMT combine to launch rehab project’, News Special, SMT, June 2006 ), which is being pioneered by The Company of Security Professionals and SMT (www.hear4u.org.uk).

John Purnell – The Company’s Master for 2006-2007 – will talk about the project on the night. We hope you’ll support this great initiative!

The Shortlist of Finalists

Members of this year’s Judging Panel have been faced with a demanding task, sifting through a record number of entries. Each year the standard of those entries heightens in quality, and this time around proved no exception to that rule.

Serving on our Judging Panel in 2006 are John Allan (chief executive of the International Institute of Security), Peter Davies (assistant chief constable at the Lincolnshire Constabulary), Stefan Hay (director of strategic development at Skills for Security), Richard Kemp (director of Group security for Canary Wharf), Patrick Somerville (chairman of the International Professional Security Association), Professor Martin Gill (director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International) and Geoff Tate (chief executive of the SSAIB).

Also on the Panel are Ian Fowler (Norbain’s technical training manager), Chet Patel (chief executive of BT redcare Group), Alex Carmichael (technical director at the BSIA), Michael Jasper (security and training consultant), The Security Institute’s chairman Bill Wyllie and Peter French, managing director of SSR Personnel Services.

As ever, the Panel was completed by Brian Sims (Editor of SMT), Security Installer’s Editor Alan Hyder and Ron Alalouff, the Editor of web-based security publication Platform.

So who has been shortlisted. Read on…

Best Security Manager

• Trevor Gannon (regional director of corporate security EMEA, Credit Suisse)
• Steve Hepworth (security manager, Chubb
• Security Personnel for Cable and Wireless)
• Stuart House (senior security supervisor, PCL Whitehall Security Group for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
• Brendan Reynolds (UK security manager, Hewlett Packard)
• Marcus Sipson (security manager, Festival Place Shopping Centre)
• Austin Whiteman (security account manager, Wilson James for the BBC)

• Lynx Security Services
• MITIE Security
• Northern Security
• Securitas Security Services
• Vision Security Group (VSG)
• Wilson James

• Arup Security Consulting
• Buro Happold ITAC
• Ian Johnson Associates
• TPS Consult
• VIDEF Security Consulting

• Firewalker Events Security
• G4S Security Services (UK)
• Showsec International
• Sword Event Guard International

• ADT Fire and Security
• Chris Lewis Security Services
• G4S Security Services (UK)
• Optimum Security Services
• Vision Security Group (VSG)
• Wilson James

• ATEC Security
• Chris Lewis Security Services
• Frontline Security Solutions
• G1
• Reliance High-Tech
• Siemens Building Technologies (Security Systems Division)
• Best Security Manufacturer
• Axis Communications (UK)
• Dedicated Microcomputers Group
• Panasonic (UK)
• Pelco
• Risco Group (UK)
• TAC Satchwell

• Axis Communications (UK)
• Bolton County Council
• Chris Lewis Security Services
• Over-C
• Panasonic (UK)
• Security Software Solutions

• Carlisle Security
• Chris Lewis Security Services
• Pelco
• Siemens Building Technologies
• thecentre:mk
• TPS Consult

• ASDA and the Police
• C UK Security Services and the British Transport Police
• Carlisle Security and Serco
• Raid-control and the BSIA, the police service and the retail/security sectors
• TPS Consult and Partners
• Vision Security Group (VSG) and B&Q
• Best Security Innovation
• Carlisle Security
• Chubb Security Personnel
• Identicom
• Panasonic (UK)
• Pyronix
• The Security Watchdog

• ADT Fire and Security
• Axis Communications (UK)
• Chubb Security Personnel and T-Mobile
• G4S
• TAC Satchwell
• TPS Consult

• Dedicated Microcomputers Group
• Norbain
• Peter Nicholls (BSIA)
• Reliance High-Tech
• TPS Consult
• VIDEF Security Consulting

The year-on-year growth of the Security Excellence Awards is due – in no small measure – to the fantastic support of our Sponsors...

G4S Security Services (UK)

The largest security company in the UK, G4S Security Services undertakes over 32 million hours of guarding for clients each year. The company currently employs over 15,000 members of staff who work with a wide range of end users in both the public and private sectors.

MITIE Security

For the past 20 years, MITIE Security has been offering bespoke security solutions to a growing number of prestigious blue chip clients across a diverse range of sectors – from telecommunications to transportation. The company’s turnover exceeds £50 million.

ACPO CPI

ACPO Crime Prevention Initiatives (CPI) was originally developed to manage the Secured By Design project. It now also presides over the Secured Car Parks initiative and the national Architectural Liaison Officers’ Conference.

Security Industry Authority

The Security Industry Authority is tasked with managing the licensing and regulation process laid down in the Private Security Industry Act 2001. The organisation is also central to raising skills levels and professionalism across the sector by encouraging Best Practice approaches.

Panasonic (UK)

Prime supplier of a single-source contact for CCTV, Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) and source tagging systems. The company’s Premier Integrators for End Users programme – covered extensively in SMT – has been hugely successful.

Southern Monitoring Services

The company was established in 1983, and is now a market leader in the provision of remote monitoring and associated services. Its sister company Northern Monitoring Services was launched in 2004.

Prima Corporate Wear

Prima is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of corporate clothing to the security industry. Boasting three decades of experience in the business, Prima can offer its client base an in-house design and manufacturing service.

Over-C

Over-C provides intuitive web-based applications for clients in the security guarding sector. Its online software – also called Over-C – has been developed by industry experts to help in automating procedures and processes for the management of a security guarding contractor.

Skills for Security

Skills for Security – the skills and standards setting body for the industry – has been created to work alongside employers on raising skills levels within the sector, and provide a workforce that is highly trained and fit for purpose.

British Security Industry Association

The British Security Industry Association is the professional Trade Association for the UK’s security industry. Its aim is to help its 500-plus Member Companies succeed in an ever-changing and highly competitive business environment.

Kings Security Systems

Kings Security Systems is one of the premier installation companies in the security sector. ISO 9001:2000-accredited, Kings specialises in CCTV, access control and intruder alarm installations for a host of blue chip clients.