We featured trainer Brian Hilton in the May 2010 print issue of Professional Security magazine for his training company RST’s work at the British Museum. He writes:
I am pleased to report that we will be organising yet another presentation to security members of the British Library next week in recognition of the successful attainment of vocational qualifications delivered by RST. This follows the work we have done with the British Museum, which is testament to how RST are supporting skills development within the industry. Sadly, I am extremely annoyed and concerned as to what is happening around me. We have experienced the long running farce of the physical intervention element to the new QCF Doors Course, of which I will pass at this stage, but we are now competing with a range of training providers who are no better than cowboys, cheats or at best of a poor standard. We hear of companies selling certificates, slashing prices, running courses in seedy pubs and probably worse, purely websites. Only today I saw our own advert ‘word verbatim’ offering our own course, but our enquiry went to someone unknown’s mail box. An advert in a mail box had a bogus website; people are guaranteeing jobs when there aren’t any; and only last week I had an Eastern European who was sending 50 people a week to a training provider who guaranteed passes when they had no English. You will appreciate that an industry’s future is as good as the components within it and it is about time that good quality firms are recognised for what they contribute and others do not prosper from pure opportunism. Perhaps it is time to regulate the training providers.
Brian Hilton
Managing Director, RST.
