Thursday, 30 April 2026

Tower of LondonICTS UK has won the highly competitive and prestigious Historic Royal Palaces contract for the provision of security warding services.

Vigilance reliably learnt that the contract whose terms include the provision of access control, bag searching (supported by specialist search dogs), and general assistance to the operations team at the Tower of London including the Yeoman Warders will commence on 1st November 2010.

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This week we bring to our numerous readers all over the world our summer update on the UK security industry. And to take the lead this week are the SIA and ACS Champion of the Year 2009/2010, SecuriGroup. Security companies in the UK wishing to participate in this exercise should send their summer reports to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please include all events/activities and achievements from January 2010-date.

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BY BARONESS RUTH HENIG CBE, Chairman, SIA Baroness Ruth Henig CBE

Although this draft text was an Address by the Author to ‘The SIA Journey: Have we gone far enough?’ at the 3rd Annual Stakeholders’ Conference of the SIA held in Manchester on 21st May 2009, it is being reproduced by Vigilance because of its current relevance. However, it should be noted that there have been many other reforms and achievements of the SIA since June 2009 to date which are not in this speech.

 

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United NationsIn an effort to confront head on the growing range of non-traditional risks and challenges, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has created a new Division within the NATO International Staff.

The new Emerging Security Challenges Division (ESCD) which has already started work this August Vigilance learnt will be focusing notably on terrorism, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, cyber defence, and energy security.

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  1. TranSec World Expo 2010: Transport Security Expo brings the world to London on the 14th and 15th September
  2. Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper (rtd.) resumes office as Director of National Intelligence
  3. Abbeys reduces its carbon footprint
  4. OCS acquires Legion Group
  5. So you wanna be a Security Officer? Then go online, e-fill your form and send it manually to the SIA!
  6. Pakistan Terror: David Cameron and his Vuvuzela Diplomacy
  7. “Deadly rocket attack in southern Jordan is an act of terrorism,” says UN Secretary General
  8. Cameron’s passage to India: BAE Systems gets £500 million order to supply HAL a further 57 Hawk aircraft
  9. Raytheon secures $23 Million contract to provide mission support for RAID System
  10. G4S wins Northern Rail contract
  11. G4S Cash Solutions awarded Silverstone contract
  12. Raytheon furious over UK Government’s scrapping of £750 million border control contract
  13. SIA Board Members
  14. Weiss joins SIA as non-executive Board member
  15. BSIA rewards officers who went beyond the call of duty



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