Rollo Davies

The industry regulator, the Security Industry Authority, requires all new Security Officers in the UK to have undertaken specialist mandatory training before they can be issued a license that allows them to work. This training takes about a week to complete and equips you with the basic knowledge you will need to do the job […]

For many years there has been no organised recognition of the work performed by Security Officers across the globe. Since 2020 however, things have changed. The Australian Security Industry Association Limited (ASIAL) decided that enough was enough and their members deserved a day of recognition and appreciation. This idea rapidly spread, due in no small […]

The professionalisation of the UK security industry We all know that the general public’s perception of security guards is that, without sugar coating it, we are all a load of poorly trained, ignorant, lazy, minimum wage slobs. Media portrayals over the last 40 years or more have reinforced this idea with on screen security workers […]

For years there has been a huge problem in the UK security industry, the awful standard of many new security officers. Officers that simply do not seem to understand the concept of security, or that are unable to communicate safely using basic English, despite allegedly having recently passed a mandatory training course. All of these […]

Let’s be completely honest. Winning contracts and finding new business is not easy. Most security companies seem to start when someone senior in a company procurement department turns to a friend or acquaintance to ask if they would be interested in providing security services for them. So, all of a sudden you are supplying 2 […]

Does it often feel as though as soon as you hire another security guard, yet another one leaves? It can be a never-ending job attempting to hire security guards only for them to move on in a few months. All of this costs time and money, as you well know. So, how can you hire […]

Let’s be completely honest, the front line of the physical security industry is in dire shape. The general public has for decades, been bombarded with negative clichés and images of lazy, officious, or ignorant “security guards”. Sadly, and with complete candour, not all these views are unjustified. This casts a shadow over everyone endeavouring to […]

Somewhat alarmingly, on the 22nd of November last year, the British Security Industry Association stated that there will be a shortfall of over 60,000 security officers in the UK over the next 12 months. The role of security officer could not be more important. Protection of people and property is at the heart of everything […]

Like unicorns, hens teeth, or traffic wardens with a sense of humour, decent Security Officers are increasingly hard to find. The BSIA estimates that this year there will be a shortfall of around 60,000 licensed Security Officers in the UK. Just over a quarter of the way through the year and what many considered to […]

Get Licensed may be by far the largest network of security industry training providers in the UK. It may have the most user-friendly online security jobs board. The online courses it provides are exactly what you need to improve your job knowledge and get on in the real world. Even the products in the online […]