{"id":36433,"date":"2023-06-15T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.get-licensed.co.uk\/get-daily\/?p=36433"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:17:31","slug":"security-guard-or-security-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.get-licensed.co.uk\/get-daily\/security-guard-or-security-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Security \u201cGuard\u201d or Security \u201cOfficer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The professionalisation of the UK security industry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We all know that the general public\u2019s perception of security guards is that, without sugar coating it, we are all a load of poorly trained, ignorant, lazy, minimum wage slobs. Media portrayals over the last 40 years or more have reinforced this idea with on screen security workers either bumbling idiots, asleep when the trouble happens, or if we\u2019re lucky, just arrogant jobsworths. The Security Industry Authority was supposed to go some way towards improving things, with a super-duper new training regime and tough licensing requirements. Alas, everyone and his dog was able to get an SIA licence, and the entire industry slid just a bit further down in the estimation of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few years however, there have been genuine steps to change this and finally professionalise the front line of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 the BSIA got together with the Security Institute and the Security Commonwealth and launched the Hidden Workforce (changing perceptions) initiative. https:\/\/www.bsia.co.uk\/blogs\/131\/perception-of-security-officers-as-an-es<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meant to celebrate and publicise the great responsibilities and extensive training of today\u2019s front-line security \u201cOfficers\u201d, it never reached beyond the security industry itself, and hence simply preached to the choir. It did however get some important issues on security leadership\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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