SIA says backlog over

Published on 14 Dec 2006

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has declared its months-long backlog over. Tens of thousands of licenses have been issued since March 2006, when they became compulsory for private security operators.

Paul Douglas, SIA assistant director licensing, said:

"A license processing backlog built up from the flood of late applications leading up to and after the licensing deadline for the manned guarding sectors.

"We worked hard to process applications, we cleared the backlog in September and processing times have returned to normal."