SIR - I read your campaigning article ‘Four Issues, One Voice' (SMT, April 2006, ) with great interest, and have witnessed the online version at both and on

Particularly interesting is your desire to see in-house security operatives licensed. We have found evidence that larger Facilities Management companies have advised selected clients to ditch their contract security suppliers post-20 March and turn to in-house provision, thus avoiding regulation altogether. If this is not a good example of flouting the law I don't know what is.

To my mind, the sooner in-house security operatives are subject to regulation like their cousins in the contract sector the better.

Well done for raising the issue in such a spirited and committed fashion.

Tony Leworthy Managing Director Alamo Security Services

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