The trio of IMO, shipping industry and seafarers have called on the UN Secretary- General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon in a letter jointly signed by IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos and heads of international shipping and seafarer organizations to lend support in securing the release of hostages - seafarers, in the main - currently being held by pirates in Somalia.
ICTS UK has won the highly competitive and prestigious Historic Royal Palaces contract for the provision of security warding services.
Vigilance reliably learnt that the contract whose terms include the provision of access control, bag searching (supported by specialist search dogs), and general assistance to the operations team at the Tower of London including the Yeoman Warders will commence on 1st November 2010.
This week we bring to our numerous readers all over the world our summer update on the UK security industry. And to take the lead this week are the SIA and ACS Champion of the Year 2009/2010, SecuriGroup. Security companies in the UK wishing to participate in this exercise should send their summer reports to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please include all events/activities and achievements from January 2010-date.
BY BARONESS RUTH HENIG CBE, Chairman, SIA 
Although this draft text was an Address by the Author to ‘The SIA Journey: Have we gone far enough?’ at the 3rd Annual Stakeholders’ Conference of the SIA held in Manchester on 21st May 2009, it is being reproduced by Vigilance because of its current relevance. However, it should be noted that there have been many other reforms and achievements of the SIA since June 2009 to date which are not in this speech.
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