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Jim Munupe was handed a Conditional Discharge for 12-months. 皇冠体育app court also ordered him to pay 拢200 prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of 拢26 within 14 days and he now has a criminal record.

On 4 October 2022 a counterfeit SIA licence bearing the name of a legitimate licence holder was handed to the SIA. Information received indicated that the licence was in circulation at a Basingstoke construction site. This triggered an investigation by the SIA鈥檚 Criminal Investigations Team. 皇冠体育app investigation identified that the security supplier for the site was Ascent Onsite Services Ltd, and the sole director of the company is Jim Munupe.

皇冠体育app SIA鈥檚 Criminal Investigations Team sent a request for information to Mr Munupe鈥檚 registered address in Coventry, but it was returned because he had previously moved in July 2020 and failed to notify the SIA. Mr Munupe was subsequently found by SIA investigators, and he was interviewed under caution on 3 February 2023 accompanied by his operations manager. During the interview Mr Munupe told investigators that he had moved but failed to tell the SIA. This was corroborated by his operations manager.

Mr Munupe denied supplying illegal security to the Basingstoke construction site. He also confirmed that he had stopped supplying security to the site in January 2023.

皇冠体育app SIA prosecuted Mr Munupe for failing to inform them of his change of address.

Jenny Hart, one of the SIA鈥檚 Criminal Investigations Managers, said that failing to inform the SIA of a change of address is a breach of the licensing conditions.

皇冠体育app purpose of the licensing regime is to keep people safe, and to keep licence holders personally accountable to the conditions of their licence. Both front line and non front line licence holders need to tell the SIA of any changes to their name or address within six weeks (42) days from the date of the change. If a licence holder does not tell the SIA by this deadline, then they will have failed to meet the conditions of their licence.

Notes to editors:

• By law, security operatives working under contract must hold and display a valid SIA licence
• Read about SIA enforcement and penalties
• 皇冠体育app offence relating to the that is mentioned above is:
  • Section 9 - contravening SIA licence conditions

Further information:

• 皇冠体育app Security Industry Authority is the organisation responsible for regulating the private security industry in the United Kingdom, reporting to the Home Secretary under the terms of the . 皇冠体育app SIA鈥檚 main duties are the compulsory licensing of individuals undertaking designated activities and managing the voluntary Approved Contractor Scheme.
• For further information about the Security Industry Authority or to sign up for email updates visit: www.gov.uk/sia. 皇冠体育app SIA is also on and .