After a couple of covid-interrupted years, the ACS Pacesetters Security Officer of Distinction Awards lunch returns to Royal Windsor Racecourse for 2022 and will run on Wednesday, May 25.
The event is open to all ACS Pacesetter members and each company attending the function can be presented with a personally engraved award showing that they are a member in 2022. The deadline to enter an officer is Friday, April 1, at 5pm; as in recent years the number of entries has steadily risen, making judging ever harder, organisers are restricting 2022 nominations to five per company.
It’s become one of the premier times of the year when guarding companies, and their customers, can put forward security staff who have shown professionalism in an emergency, whether seeking to save life or property, or prevent crime.
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At member company Oakpark Security, Peter Sutton, Head of Security Services said: “As a business that continually champions excellence at all levels, Oakpark Security are proud to be amongst the longest serving members of the ACS Pacesetters scheme. Recognition of teams and individuals that have gone above and beyond in carrying out their duties is paramount to the ethos of any successful business and the Pacesetters scheme has provided the mechanism for such recognition for many years.”
Venture Security was among the winners at the 2021 awards, that were hosted by magazine MD Roy Cooper online. Venture MD Paul Howe said: “It’s great to see real acts of courage, going ‘above and beyond’ being recognised; and great for the guards.”
While the awards are a chance at once to give credit to the outstanding work by guards, and to show what the wider sector is capable of when rising to an occasion, it’s of note that those nominated for the awards are not the only deserving ones out there. Paul Howe added that Andover-based Venture commends officers regularly, perhaps ten or a dozen a year, out of which the ones nominated for the Pacesetters awards are chosen.
A page on each of the 12 winners will appear in a brochure on the day. The winners will also appear on the ACS Pacesetters website; and be featured in the July print edition of Professional Security Magazine. As pre-covid, Pacesetters will aim to raise funds for charity with a raffle. As in 2019, the organisers have chosen The Felix Fund Bomb Disposal Charity, having last time raised almost £2,000 for that cause. Visit www.felixfund.org.uk.
To ask about attending or for other details email organiser Lynda Moore: [email protected].
About Pacesetters
It’s a group of companies, not to do with the regulator the Security Industry Authority, that are in the top 15 per cent of the SIA’s ACS (approved contractor scheme) benchmarking. Visit https://www.acspacesetters.co.uk/.
Photo courtesy of Pacesetters; the 2019 winners.
