Integrity have recently been awarded the complete security contract for Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. This encompasses all aspects of security including manned guarding, mobile patrols, key holding and alarm response and electronic security. Integrity are now responsible for a portfolio of 75 premises in the area with a response team that manage alarms, CCTV and respond to activations. We would like to welcome the ten new members of staff that have joined the Company.

NMC have instructed Integrity on a new site based in Leicestershire providing security at a new development in Glenfield.

Integrity have worked with North Midland Construction since 2012 initially at the North Arran Way construction in Solihull. Since then we have worked with NMC at a number of developments within the Midlands region as they have constructed new traffic infrastructure.

We have received favourable comparisons to other suppliers used by NMC as we ensure that we provide a professional and reliable service. NMC’s site staff have acknowledged the level of responsiveness from management and officers, and have also appreciated our staff’s efforts in going ‘above and beyond’ their duties to safeguard the site and equipment.

November has been a busy month for Integrity’s Mobile Patrol Operations with the appointment of Tom Wright as Mobile Operations Manager to oversee the team.

This new appointment has coincided with the launch of a number of new key holding and mobile patrol contracts in Solihull, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas, looking after an assortment of construction sites, industrial and office complexes.

Traditionally this period of the year always sees a rise in demand for these services as businesses close for the festive period. All of Integrity’s mobile patrol vehicles will be kept fully occupied.

Her Majesty The Queen recently visited International Security Printers (ISP) on Wolverhampton’s i54 business park, along with the new £500 million Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) engine factory.

Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, she was taking a behind-the-scenes look at both firms in her first visit to the city since 1994. The Queen was cutting the ribbon at JLR and officially opening ISP, which has moved its headquarters to the i54 from Walsall.

Integrity Security Group were requested to support the Police and Royal Protection to provide additional security during the event and to ensure the safety of all those attending.

We would like to thank the staff involved for representing the Company at this important event. We were pleased to receive compliments from the Police on the professionalism of our team.

The longstanding relationship between Integrity Security Group and Hortons’ Estate Ltd has been further recognised by the award of a Front-of-House security role at the new Enterprise House office space development.

This latest city centre assignment has once again reinforced Integrity’s position as one of the major suppliers of security services within both Birmingham city centre and the West Midlands.

We recognise that it is paramount to ensure that staff are carefully chosen to represent both us and our clients, and to ensure that they provide a welcoming, reassuring and professional presence to tenants, their visitors and members of the public.

Following the detailed and exacting external audits of Integrity during August we are pleased to announce that not only have we maintained our Approved Contractor Status under the Security Industry Authority scheme but we have also increased our score by 38%!

This improved score places the Company within the top 08% performing companies within the private security sector, and represents the hard work by all of the staff both on customer sites and at our offices.

In addition to the above we have also again secured accreditation to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004. Both of these accreditations were also achieved with no major or minor non-conformances for the fifth year in a row.

The joke might make you groan but we have got plenty to cheer about!

We are pleased to announce that Integrity have been awarded a contract by Britvic the largest soft drinks producer in the UK. We have been appointed to provide a variety of services to this prestigious customer at a number of locations.

Britvic was founded in the mid-nineteenth century in Chelmsford as the British Vitamin Products Company and changed it’s name to Britvic in 1971. There is a good mix of very famous brands in it’s portfolio including R White’s Lemonade, Tango, Robinsons, Pepsi and 7 Up

We are now settled in to our new office space which has seen us expand our Head Office premises in Solihull quite considerably. Remaining at Highlands House we now occupy a completely self contained space but we have not had to change our postal address.

Our solid and continual expansion has seen us outgrow our offices four times in the last five years and therefore we are pleased to have somewhere to call ‘home’ for the next ten years.

The new office space was refurbished and fitted out to the Company’s specifications to allow for further expansion plans. This is in addition to exciting plans for new area offices in other locations around the country.

We’ve come a long way from the Company’s modest start in a cupboard under the stairs at one of the Director’s houses!

Building strong client relationships is an integral part of the ethos of Integrity Security Group. Since the inception of the Company Integrity has continued to develop a close relationship with their client Hortons’ Estate Ltd, who are now the Company’s oldest customer.

Hortons’ Estate Ltd is an independent Midlands based property company owned by the Horton family. It was founded by Isaac Horton and first incorporated in 1892.

Hortons’ have rewarded Integrity with a number of assignments in recognition of the service levels and attention that we have provided to them, starting with an initial three sites back in 2009.

The latest undertaking is to provide a Concierge service at the prestigious Cathedral Court on Colmore Row in proximity to Snow Hill station. The tenants of this site include Barclays Bank amongst others and this latest appointment adds to the list of city centre sites looked after by the Company for it’s clients.

You may have recently seen Integrity Security Group Ltd featured on the prime time television news programme BBC Midlands Today. We were approached due to the Company’s  deliberate policy of targeting the long term unemployed when looking to fill vacancies.

The camera crew and regular reporter Ben Sidwell came to Integrity’s Solihull HQ to interview Tony Turner and Will Adams to get their experiences of starting a Company during the recession. Paul Brotheridge, who works at Latham House in Birmingham city centre, was also interviewed to outline his experiences after joining the Company after a period of unemployment.

Tony and Will enjoy being able to offer people the opportunity for a fresh start and to offer them positions within the Company “We know, from personal experience, if you give people an opportunity to prove themselves and offer the best possible training, they can be a great asset to your business.”