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The SIA looks like extending its licensing regime to Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Office has issued a public consultation paper to explore the options for regulating the private security industry in Northern Ireland. Of the four options outlined in the paper, option three explores the possibility of extending the remit of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) to Northern Ireland (NI). The other options – doing nothing, setting up a SIA-style agency covering only NI, and carrying on with the current checks by the Government that security company directors are not paramilitaries, are somewhat discounted in the consultation document. You can download it at the Northern Ireland Office website, and reply to the consultation, to Stormont, by October. See fuller article in the articles section of this website.
