G4S Integrated Services, which specialises in providing integrated facilities management and specialist support services in critical environments, has been awarded SAFEcontractor accreditation for the high standard of health and safety provision maintained across all its contracts. SAFEcontractor accreditation demonstrates the company’s commitment to maintaining the health and safety of its clients, staff and others affected by its operations. The certification will provide both existing and prospective customers with the reassurance that our health and safety practices have been independen...

G4S Risk Management, a leading provider of risk mitigation and secure support services, announces the formation of an Iraq Advisory Board to assist with the development of its Secure Solutions business in the country. The Advisory Board will be chaired by Michael P Wareing CMG, formerly the British Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Reconstruction in Southern Iraq and Chairman of the Basra Development Commission, and will bring together senior members of the G4S Iraq business and senior Iraqi leaders. Nigel Billingham, Group Managing Director of G4S Risk Management, said " I am delighted th...

G4S Secure Solutions (UK) (‘G4S’), the UK’s leading security company, has launched a new dog handling service to meet the growing demand for this form of specialist security solution.  G4S Canine Security Services has teams of professional dog handlers, whose dogs offer both patrol and detection services to compliment G4S’ existing portfolio of security solutions.G4S’ search dog and handler teams specialise in the identification of explosives or narcotics as well as human detection and are ideally suited for deployment in the events, transport, critical national infrastructure, ...

London, November 2010. Audio Visual Machines (AVM) has been awarded a place on the audio visual supplier list for the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW), London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) and Value Wales.AVM is the largest videoconferencing and audio visual systems integrator in the UK and has worked on some of the biggest higher and further education AV projects. Joining these university consortiums is a natural step for AVM who are already on the framework agreements for the North East Universities P...

Securitas has acquired the security services companies Security Professionals Inc. and Security Management Inc., based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Enterprise value is estimated to MSEK 70 (MUSD 10.5). Security Professionals and Security Management have combined annual sales of approximately MSEK 215 (MUSD 32) and approximately 1,000 employees. The companies, with presence in the Chicago area have balanced and diverse customer portfolios. Securitas is today the largest supplier of security services in the Chicago area. With these acquisitions, Securitas will strengthen its position in this geo...

G4S, the world’s leading international security solutions group, today became a founder signatory of the new International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. Representatives from the world’s largest security solutions company were present in Geneva to sign the code, developed by the industry, civil society representatives and the Swiss, UK and US Governments. The Code sets out principles for security operations in so-called “complex environments” – areas experiencing or recovering from disaster or unrest and where governments and the rule of law are weak. It covers recr...

London, 21 October 2010 – The security business of MITIE, the strategic outsourcing company, has held an Olympics strategy round table to engage with its clients likely to be impacted by the Olympics and other national events in 2012. The goal of this first round table was to define MITIE’s security strategy for 2012 to ensure that it continues to support its clients during a challenging time. Andy May, Security Client Relationship Director for MITIE, commented: “The round table had two primary aims. Firstly for us to give our clients an update on Olympic planning and resilience consi...

G4S Employment Screening & Vetting, part of the UK’s leading security company, G4S Secure Solutions (UK), will be showcasing its range of employment screening solutions at the CIPD annual conference and exhibition between 9-11 November. The three day event in Manchester is Europe's largest CIPD event for HR professionals, and represents a great chance for this community to meet the leading suppliers of HR products and services and discuss current business challenges. G4S’s employment screening service is founded on over 50 years of experience in developing and implementing backgroun...

Securitas has acquired the security services company Nordserwis.pl  in Poland. Enterprise value is estimated to MSEK 10 (MPLN 4.3). Nordserwis.pl  is a local security services company, well established in the North-Eastern region of Poland. The company has a well diversified customer portfolio, operates within security services, including mobile services and has annual sales of approximately MSEK 16 (MPLN 7), with about 250 employees. With this acquisition, Securitas will further strengthen its operation in North-Eastern Poland. The Polish commercial security market is highly fragmented, ...

FGH Security Ltd was announced as the ACS Champion of the Year 2010 at the Security Excellence Awards held in London on Thursday [21 Oct]. Lancaster-based FGH first achieved approved contractor status in May 2006 and is currently approved by the SIA for door supervision, key holding, security guarding and vehicle immobilisation. The judges praised the company’s engagement with the SIA, its partnership approach and its promotion of the ACS. This is the second award the company has won at the Security Excellence Awards after winning Best Practice in Door Supervision in 2009. SIA Chairman Ba...