June is Pride month. Pride month is about teaching tolerance, education in pride history and continuing to move forward for equality. It calls for people to remember how damaging homophobia was and still can be. The month commemorates and celebrates being proud of who you are no matter who you love. 🏳️🌈
Congratulations to our June Employee of the Month John Smyth Jnr. Working within the security industry for over a decade John currently manages the successful stewarding operation at Hamilton Academical FC. Always ensuring the team uphold high professional standards has resulted in John maintaining excellent client relations, most recently assisting with our client service level supervisory visits Well Done, John!!
Congratulations to our May Employee of the Month Ciaran Conlon Ciaran is one of our long serving members of the team and we can always count on him to reliably present the company's ethos. Primarily working within our corporate and manned guarding remit Ciaran has travelled the length and breadth of the country to ensure that our clients’ needs are consistently catered for to a high standard. Ciaran’s can-do attitude in conjunction with his work ethic deserved to be awarded. Well Done, Ciaran!!
This weekend our Mobile Patrol Officer’s will be visiting the Children’s Wood continuing with our action plan focusing on noise pollution, excessive littering, late night drinking and anti-social behaviour in the area. This has resulted in invaluable engagement taking place with local residents. We will continue working with our partners in keeping the Children’s Wood a safe & friendly environment.
Last week our Events Team were deployed at Braehead Arena for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections. Votes were being counted at the Arena, in Renfrew, for Renfrewshire’s three constituencies and the West Scotland region over Friday & Saturday. Our team supported more than 200 counting staff and other agencies in various roles, with heightened security and enhanced Covid-19 health and safety measures in place to ensure a safe environment for everyone attending. As part of our events team we also deployed some of our Specialist Security Officers (SSO’s) who are trained specifically in detecting individuals with criminal or hostile intentions by observing their behaviours and activities. Braehead Arena Operations Team commented “Please pass on my thanks to all your team for their hard work over the past week in the arena. The client was delighted with the level of service and the manner in which the team performed their role whilst getting the job done
Today marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. The week, which is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, is in its 21st year and runs from 10-16 May. This year, the theme for the week is ‘Nature’. Across the country, people will be celebrating the mental health benefits of being around nature in their local community in a range of digital and creative ways. Find out more about Mental Health Awareness and get involved at >https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/get-involved
From January to March this year, during the 2nd lockdown we took the opportunity to run 6 Internal Online Staff Training Workshops covering various topics that we felt would enhance our frontlines staff’s knowledge when deployed into an operational environment. As our industry diversifies, our pledge was to upskill our workforce to in turn support our vision of providing the best possible service. Over 350 staff took part in the sessions that lasted between 2 - 4 hours covering the topics below. 1. Customer Service Awareness 2. Report Writing & Radio Communication Awareness 3. Incident Escalation Awareness 4. Risk Analysis & Decision-Making Awareness 5. Counter Terrorism & Threat Analysis Awareness 6. The Roles & Responsibilities of the Safety Steward & Security Officer Each staff member took part in a knowledge check on completion and received an internal Certificate of Participation. Security Scotland Operations Director Chris Callaghan commented “it was great to see so many of our people taking part in
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Our Specialist Services Division has had a busy couple of weeks as the preparation planning gets underway for some of our Corporate Buildings ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November. Circa 1 million protestors will descend on Glasgow City Centre during this period, the questions we’d ask: Are you prepared? Can we assist in your Mitigation Planning? Would your business benefit from a high-quality Penetration Test? Do you require any of our attached Specialist Services?
Congratulations to our April Employee of the Month Blessing Aghahowa. Blessing is such a team player! His professional standards are of such a high standard that he would fit in with any team at any location. Since beginning with the company in November Blessing has excelled at each site he has worked, his can-do attitude and his willingness to go the extra mile for both colleagues and clients alike reflect what we stand for at Security Scotland, a true gentleman. Well Done, Blessing!