Your vote counts in getting top firm to join our excellent line-up

Finalists in the Security Excellence Awards 2001 organised by Security Installer and SMT magazines have been announced … but there is still a chance for readers to vote for their Top Manufacturer. Following the deliberations of a distinguished panel of judges, the following have gone through to the shortlist.

The category and finalists (in no particular order) are:
Best Customer Care Initiative:

• Glevum Security Ltd
• Reliance High Tech Ltd
• Pearl Fire & Security
• The Natural History Museum

Best Guarding Company:

• The Shield Guarding Co Ltd
• Galago Ltd
• Noble Security Services
• Securiplan plc
• Whitehall Security services Ltd

Best IT Initiative:

• West Midlands Police
• Farsight Ltd
• Securiplan Ltd
• Shell Real Estate

Best Partnership Initiative:

• British Transport Police
• ID Technology Group;
• Security Support Services

Best Security Consultant:

• Gordon Wilson Associates
• TPS Consult Security
• The Paul Elliot Consultancy
• Buckingham Consultancy

Best Security Innovation:

• Cambridge Neurodynamics Ltd (for Tridentity 3D facial recognition)
• aSeCo Electronics (for the SeedBox error elimination device)
• Pyronix (for the Veritec P2 detector)
• West Midlands Police (Business Securitymini CDRom)

Best Security Installer:

• Reliance High Tech Ltd;
• Pearl Fire & Security Ltd;
• Universal Security Systems Ltd
• ADT Fire and Security plc
• ID Technology Group plc

Best Security Manager:

• Safer Merthyr Tydfil (Meirion Thomas)
• Lockhart Security Services (John Rosul)
• Securitas UK (Paul Fullicks)
• Selfridges & Co (Pter Vorberg)

Best Security Training Initiative:

• The Oracle
• Tavcom Training
• Group 4 Total Security
• Gardiner Technology Ltd

Send in your voting card
There is still a chance, however, for you to cast your vote in our Top Manufacturer Award 2001.

  A card is enclosed in this issue for you to cast your vote for the company you feel deserves such a high profile award.Have you had particularly good service, support or technical back-up from one company? Are their products or services of a consistently high standard? Have they gone out of their way to be helpful? This is your chance to say thanks. This year's "black tie" gala event will be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on the night of Monday November 12. It has typically attracted hunderds of security VIPs.

One more sponsor has joined the list of companies supporting the event:

Prima Corporate Wear is a leading supplier of corporate clothing to the security industry.

Within the last year and a half, new ownership, a new name, new management and a new style has seen an unprecedented string of new contracts and a 25 per cent increase in growth.

Under the management of Nick Atkinson, MD, the new Board of Directors carried out a suc- cessful management buy-out from the previ- ous owner at the beginning of 2000.

Our other sponsors are:

Southern Monitoring Services, the market leader in the provision of remote monitoring and associated services

Id technology group plc, providers of a single source contact for CCTV, EAS and source tagging

Third Millennium, a leading manufacturer of cost effective access control readers and secu- rity solutions;

ADE, leading supplier of security alarm control panels and PIRs.