The National Security Inspectorate released a statement saying that five NSI Gold-approved companies won six awards at the SEA 2008 ceremony.
“Pride of place goes to Northampton-based Guarding Gold approved Vision Security Group who took two awards, being voted the Security Guarding Company of the Year and Security Training Specialist of the Year with the Bank of America Security Specialists Training Programme,” the statement said.
“Two other Guarding Gold companies were also successful. Business Watch Guarding Ltd of Telford won the newly introduced SIA ACS Champion Award, with Hertfordshire-based Carlisle Security Services Ltd winning the Security Partnering Initiative of the Year, with the Merseyrail Transport Security Project.
“Honours also went to two NACOSS Gold approved companies. The category of Large Security Installer of the Year was awarded to Universal Security Systems based in East London, with Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems of Sunbury on Thames’ Service Team receiving the award for Customer Care Initiative of the Year.”
The NSI’s chief executive, Andrew White, said: “I congratulate the companies on their success. This is yet another year when NSI approved companies have been high achievers at the Security Excellence Awards.
“Each company should be proud of its success and I would hope working to the high standards demanded by NSI has helped them in their achievement. I also congratulate the many other NSI approved companies who were finalists and encourage others to work towards the standards that could help them raise their profile further through winning these awards.”
Going for IT
Another company celebrating is Scyron, which won IT Initiative of the year for its DEMON Suite of software.
It is offering a 28-day free trial of its Digital Evidence Management solution to celebrate its win. Interested parties can find out more here.
“The award recognises the role that DEMON Suite can play in helping to transform the way police and security services manage digital evidence such as video, still images, documents and audio,” its site says. “The suite has helped secure convictions in high profile cases such as the Aston riots in Birmingham.”