Professional Security was around on all three days of the Engineers of Tomorrow competition during IFSEC, that tested apprentice installers on their skills. Full story and more photos in the August print issue of the magazine.
Judges said they were unable to split the two winning pairs on the Tuesday, day one of the event. The winning pairs were Carlos and Bobby Dhunay, brothers aged 17 and 18 from Tel-cam Security Systems, the family firm based in west London; and from Bradford-based Kings Security Systems, Harrison Cooke, 20, and Jack Baker, 19. Pat Allen of the Fire and Security Association presented Simon Banks of CSL DualCom with the annual Peter Greenwood award for contribution to the security industry. Simon, pictured, who’s also a director of the NSI, got the award for his work on the ‘100 in 100’ scheme to promote apprentices, which has seen 1800 apprentices enter the sector; and for his support for the official TrailBlazer apprentice training, featured in the June and July print issues of Professional Security.
Day two
Runners-up on Wednesday, June 17 were from London-based Banham; winners were from Northern Ireland. They were Padraig Lennon, of NM Fire and Security, in Newry; and Jonathan English, of H&S Martin. Though from different firms, they worked as a team, as students of Belfast Metropolitan College; accompanied by their NVQ assessor David Moag.
Day three
Runners-up on Thursday afternoon were Jamie Perry and Richard Anderton of Salford Quays, Manchester-based Swift Fire & Security; and winners were Brian Reilly and Brad Gilmour from Kings. Prizes were DeWalt kit and bags; and after the presentation those Kings lads also got a handshake from Kings MD, Anthony King. He was a speaker at the exhibition on day two on developing engineers; his company’s new training academy featured in our March issue. Also taking part on the Thursday were Daniel and Luke Bailey of Thistle Fire and Security, from Peterborough; and Mitchell Stinchcombe of Abel Alarms and James Harris of Meridian Systems, in Birmingham.
