The Mayor of Dudley, Margaret Aston, was among guests at Mercury Training, the West Midlands-based training provider, on Thursday morning, March 5, to officially unveil new training rooms. Pictured left to right are Mike Wood, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Dudley South; Margaret Aston; Mercury MD Paul Lawton-Jones; Stuart Knight, Mercury contract manager; and Councillor Les Jones. Full story in the April 2015 print issue of Professional Security magazine.
Next week – March 9 to 13 – is National Apprenticeship Week 2015.
Mercury founder and MD Paul Lawton-Jones was eight years in the Royal Navy then has been in security for 19 years, including at the Merry Hill shopping centre, near the company’s base in Brierley Hill; and for SITO, the forerunner to Skills for Security. In a short speech to guests including installers, Paul Lawton-Jones took care to thank all members of staff, in admin; Stuart Knight in operations; Clare Fentham, who runs the apprenticeship side; the trainers (who could not attend because they were giving training, in Birmingham); and former Skills for Security man John Stanton.
Besides offering security systems courses – visitors saw apprentices at work on intruder alarm and fire panels – Mercury runs ‘career in eight weeks‘ courses for starters to the security industry, including the unemployed.
More details: For Mercury’s courses, visit www.mercurytrainme.com.
