A new screening application for security industry staff has been launched.
The Screening Bureau, an arm of The Security Watchdog, describes it as a robust and workable alternative to BS 7858, to meet the requirements of licensing and the ever-increasing pre-employment screening demands of end-users of security services.
SECURI-CHECK includes a criminality check (both UK and overseas) plus a financial probity check on all applicants, hitherto not a requirement of BS 7858 (the British Standard for screening of security staff), the bureau points out. Bearing in mind individual Security Industry Authority licences must be renewed after three years, SECURI-CHECK will cover a three-year period of in-depth employment background referencing, besides verifying identity, residence and eligibility to work in the UK. The bureau has developed a code of practice for its screening, with manned guarding company Securiplan plc, specialist security industry insurance brokers Camberford Law and Sutton Specialist Risks, which has been ratified by industry underwriters.
What they say
Susanne Thomson, Director of The Screening Bureau, says: "SECURI-CHECK screening offers the security industry an effective and up-to-date screening model, tried and tested in the discerning corporate market, which addresses, in quick time, the crucial criminality and financial probity issues of applicants entering the industry. After months of R & D, we now have the support of the insurance industry to proceed. We are delighted that Securiplan, a prominent and progressive security company, has recognised the immediate advantages, for itself and its clients, of a much faster yet more robust screening application, which has been developed with licensing roll-out in mind."
Background
The Screening Bureau, a pre-employment screening agency and division of The Security Watchdog group, was established in 2001. It is inspected to BS 7858 by the NSI and is an umbrella body of the Criminal Records Bureau. It adds that it operates within and outside the security market, and specialises in pan-European screening in the language of origin.
