Case Studies

Vote transport contract

by Mark Rowe

Cheshire East Borough Council held elections for MPs and MEPs in May while also balloting residents for election of 82 councillors across the region’s 52 wards. Once the votes were in, the boxes had to be transported from the polling stations to the region’s central counting site. The security operation was given to the contract firm Leisure Sec plc and its bodycam video surveillance team from sister company Global Focus.

Brian Reed, Cheshire East Council’s head of governance and democratic services, said: “Leisure Sec plc was a tremendous help to us in delivering the security and associated elements of our elections effort. These were the biggest scale of elections nationally, and the biggest ever faced by the Council. Leisure Sec was responsive to our changing needs, and provided a high-quality, reassuring, security service which met all of our demanding requirements.”

Leisure Sec plc managing director Cusack Gordon has more than 25 years’ experience in the security industry and is a past chair of UKASP (United Kingdom Association of Security Professionals). He said: “We were proud to be chosen to be entrusted with the security of this big operation, especially in the year that we celebrate the 800th anniversary of British democracy. I wonder how King John would have felt if he knew that guards with bodycams and video-capture would be safeguarding 800 years of liberty when he reluctantly signed the Magna Carta in 1215. We consistently receive positive feedback from our clients,” added Mr Gordon, and we recently beat 1800 other companies to be awarded Supplier of the Year by one national group, due to our consistently high service levels.

“All our security operatives undertake initial training, then additional modular training every twelve months, including conflict management, duty of care, social responsibility and customer care, physical intervention, FPOS (first person on scene), operational deployment, immediate action drills and queue control, incident report and witness statement construction, drug awareness, radio communication, searching, law, equal opportunities and managing diversity.”

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