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Mobile Security

Wood Management, the London Yard Managing Agents, has set up a security arm in order to improve security on the estates it manages.

The new security staff are mobile and, at present, will both give backup to our security guard and be available for the hours when London Yard does not have a security presence. Now that this service is an option, the Board are considering changing our arrangements from the present ten hours coverage to the 24 hour service provided by the mobile units. It is believed that the change would reduce our security costs by one third as well as being more effective than our current arrangements. The planned CCTV system will be monitored from their base station in South Quay which is only a few minutes away. At its May meeting, the Board agreed to the change in principle, but subject to a Service Level Agreement covering the number of drive-throughs to be made each hour and other operational details. Antony, our present security guard, would join the mobile unit.

Picture: Left - Antony Kimani, our security guard; Right - Em Bahadur Pun, a former Ghurka soldier, of the mobile security service.