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Pages in category "Defence companies of the United Kingdom" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The MGS works alongside armed guard services—the Military Provost Guard Service in England, Scotland and Wales, and the Northern Ireland Security Guard Service (NISGS) in Northern Ireland. The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) also work closely with the MGS, by providing an armed police service to the defence community and often act as the ...
An all-steel pipe was also developed; this became known as HAMEL after Henry Alexander Hammick and B.J. Ellis of the Iraq Petroleum Company and Burmah Oil Company respectively. [169] [2] This design was an alternative in case HAIS failed or not enough lead could be obtained for its continued production.
Formed in 1971 as the National Supervisory Council for Intruder Alarms, as a product certification organisation for installers of security alarms / burglar alarms, it merged in the 1990s with the Security Systems Inspectorate (SSI) to become the National Approval Council for Security Systems (NACOSS), and later merged with the Inspectorate of the manned guarding Security Industry (ISI), which ...
A joint South African-British private security company registered in the British Virgin Islands. G4S [11] [12] London: Rubicon International Services: London: Ex commonwealth SF. Acquired by Aegis Defence Services on 28 October 2005. International Intelligence Limited: Eastington, Stroud: Specialist contracts. Operates in the security and ...
ArmorGroup was listed on the main list of the London Stock Exchange in December 2004. [5] ArmorGroup first entered Iraq under contract with the Bechtel Corporation in May 2003. ArmorGroup is now one of the very few private security companies which is legally registered and licensed to operate by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Trade.
The principal reason for NISGS' creation after the Good Friday Agreement was to place the guarding of MOD premises in the Province on a primarily civilian footing with military backup, as in mainland UK. It was felt that establishing the Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) in the Province would still be seen as an overtly "military" force.
A British soldier guards a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.