The Supervisory Panel for 'A Contract of Substance' (SMT, April 2002, pp20-23) – an industry-led scheme welcomed by SMT and aimed at raising standards in the contract manned guarding sector – has been announced for the period until 31 December 2003.
The Panel Members representing the industry's lead bodies are: David Dickinson (chief executive, BSIA), Patrick Somerville (chief executive, IPSA), Tom Mullarkey (chief executive at the NSI), Mike Welply (chief executive, JSIC) and Raymond Clarke (chief executive of SITO, the industry's NTO).

The contract guarding fraternity is represented by Phillip Ullmann (group managing director at Securiplan), John Wright (managing director, Trident Safeguards), John Legge (managing director of Whitehall Security), Stewart Lowden (director, Wilson James) and Patrick Dealtry, director at The Corps.

Speaking for the clients are Tom Jones (CISCO Systems), Geoff Whitfield (GlaxoSmithKline), Mike Britnell (Johnson Controls), Keith Bentley (The Oracle) and Nick Startup of UBS Warburg.

Readers will be interested to note that we have received much positive feedback on the scheme via the Security Management Today web site. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to respond.

If you want to take part as a sponsor in helping to raise the standard and profile of the contract manned guarding industry, contact The Security Watchdog direct on (telephone) 01252 891102 or fax: 01252 891109.

  • The first list of companies supporting 'A Contract of Substance' through sponsorship will appear in the June edition of Security Management Today.

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