Lancashire security boss must pay £6,548 for supplying unlicensed security or go to jail
A Blackpool man has been ordered to pay a four-figure sum for providing unlicensed security to a school.
From:
27 April 2021
Last Tuesday (20 April 2021) Martin Coe of Blackpool was handed a £6,548 Confiscation Order at Preston Crown Court, payable within three months. If he fails to pay he will face a 60-day jail sentence. He was also ordered to pay court costs of £5,000 to the Security Industry Authority (SIA) within 12 months.
Tuesday’s decision follows the SIA’s prosecution of Martin Coe last October. Coe was the former director of Evolution Security Services NW Limited (now dissolved). He was found guilty of two counts of providing unlicensed security to Baines School in Poulton and the Wyre Light pub in Fleetwood.
Three directors prosecuted at Thames Magistrates Court for failing to provide information to the SIA
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Security boss fined for ignoring industry regulator
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Fines handed to Eastbourne security officers for infringement of the Private Security Industry Act
Two door supervisors were recently sentenced at Lewes Crown Court.
From:
17 February 2021
It followed their guilty pleas for working without a licence at a popular Eastbourne family restaurant; this is a breach of the Private Security Industry Act (PSIA) 2001. The prosecutions were brought by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
Edward Chi-Mon Chung, from Eastbourne was ordered to pay a £1,000 fine and a Proceeds of Crime confiscation order of £10,118.60. He was ordered to pay £1,095 within three months of the date of his sentence on 08 January 2021.
Reyano Leon, from Bromley was fined £500. He was handed a Proceeds of Crime confiscation order of £5,670.49 and was required to pay £500.77 by 22 January 2021.
Gloucestershire security business and the SIA work together to address use of fake security licence
A man has been caught trying to work illegally as a security operative after a Cheltenham security firm spotted that his documents were fake.
From:
15 February 2021
Samuel Chimize Ugorji of Gloucester was prosecuted on Wednesday 10 February at Gloucestershire Magistrates’ Court on two counts of fraud and one count of infringement of the Private Security Industry Act. The prosecution was brought by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
In November 2019 Ugorji sought legal employment from Cheltenham-based Sterling Security. Ugorji presented Sterling Security with a counterfeit door supervisor’s licence and a driver’s licence in someone else’s name.