The UK has a 100-year-old who has a Security Industry Authority badge, the latest monthly statistics from the SIA show.
Six others of the 453,808 holding SIA badges – a record total – are in their 90s. The mode (most occurring) age of some with an SIA badge is 27, which is a cohort of some 15,526; not far behind and above 15,000 are the 25- and 26-year-olds. While only 1277 of licence holders are aged 18, the age that licence holding starts, each year has more than 1000 SIA licence holders up to and including 70.
As for SIA approved contractors, the total is 748, somewhat lower than its peak of 800-plus.
For the statistics in Excel spreadsheet form, visit the SIA website.
Of those 453,808, some 49,483 are women; meaning that some 10.9 per cent of the SIA badged are women, showing only the slightest gradual rise in female participation in private security.
Nationality
In terms of SIA licence holders by mationality, the ‘top ten’ are the same for May as they were in January: native British, then Pakistani, Nigerian, Indian, Italian, Ghanaian, Portuguese, Nepalese, Sudanese and Bangladeshi. In fact the nationalities in order of SIA badge numbers are the same, as far down as Kenyans, 29th in number in May were 31st in January. While since January the total of badge-holders has risen by almost 10,000, from 444,896, only 1856 of that rise is in British, compared with 4715 more Pakistanis.
London continues by far to be the place that the licence holder comes from – even more so when you consider that in fourth place are ‘Slough and Heathrow’. The ‘top ten’ in terms of those places has one change in May compared with January: in May the order was London, Manchester, Birmingham, Slough and Heathrow, Luton, Glasgow, Bradford, Liverpool, Leicester and Leeds, with Sheffield in eleventh; in January, Leeds and Sheffield were in swapped places.
Photo by Mark Rowe; Birmingham city centre, SIA-badged man.
