Breach in security licence

MAIDENHEAD: A company director from Maidenhead has been fined and required to pay nearly £2,000 in prosecution costs after failing to provide information to security officials.

Muhammad Imran's company MNMFM Ltd was the supplier of security to an Oldham supermarket.

On August 28 last year, the store’s retail manager noticed that the usual security operative was replaced by an unidentified man who was unlicensed.

The manager notified the Security Industry Authority (SIA) who began an investigation.

By law, security operatives working under contract must hold and display a valid SIA licence. Failing to provide information relating to an investigation is also an offence.

Investigators sent a request for information to Imran last December, which he responded to but failed to provide the information that had been requested.

The SIA sent a further request for information last February which Imran ignored.

He also failed to respond to a request to attend an interview under caution, which would have given him the opportunity to respond to the allegations.

Imran was fined £440, required to pay £1,953.50 in prosecution costs, plus a £44 victim surcharge. He was prosecuted on November 11 at Reading Magistrates’ Court in a hearing which he did not attend.