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Originally Posted by bell-the-cat
Or is the East Coast different in that "security organisations" are actually real security organisations and not mafia-like criminal gangs?
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Some are much the same but there are other outlets for gang-related operations as well. Entertainment & catering is still a favourite, along with pub-bouncer firms/event security, in particular. I was extremly surprised to find that a pretty notorious bike gang I knew from my youth had transformed themselves into one of the leading door-security firms in the North-East. The guys on their doors may be reasonably legit - many are students/postgrads, making extra cash for their studies but their bosses have quite a record & a good few decades of serious gaol-time between them.
It will be interesting to see what happens when SIA-Licencing is fully implemented in Scotland next year & the old local licencing schemes are wound-up. After that, in order to get a licence to operate,
all people connected with all aspects of private security will have to pass the same record/character checks that are currently only required for frontline-staff.
As you can imagine, the mouthpieces for many of these firms are up in arms about how bad the new scheme will be for security in Scotland.
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To give you an idea of the costs involved, the cost of one of the new licences & training is still less than the cost of hiring one of these guys for two nights. So I doubt the firms will be that hard-hit.