Brian Sims
Editor
Brian Sims
Editor
THE LEADER of a security business has been handed a suspended sentence after he deployed door supervisors with cloned licences to venues across London. Stephen Oluwadayomi Adebusoye supplied venues across the capital with 26 employees who had fraudulent Security Industry Authority (SIA) licences in their possession.
Adebusoye deployed these operatives, who were also untrained, on no fewer than 832 separate shifts between June 2020 and October 2021.
SIA investigators first began investigating Adebusoye after they found a man working with a fraudulent licence under another name at Box Park in Wembley on 7 July 2021. Investigators followed up with further checks on venues for which his company, Bright Sight Management, supplied security services.
These checks led to the arrest and convictions of Babatunde Kufuli and Ibukun Chiedu Joseph, both of whom were working with cloned licences.
On 15 November, and in the wake of a guilty plea, the authorities presiding at Southwark Crown Court sentenced Adebusoye to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. He has been disqualified from being a director for five years and must complete 80 hours unpaid work.
Adebusoye’s company, Bright Sight Management, will be sentenced at a later date.
Trained professionals
Nicola Bolton, criminal investigations manager at the SIA, commented: “Our investigators exposed Adebusoye for putting people at risk by deploying security operatives who lacked the training needed to do the job. People should be able to go about their daily lives, and enjoy a night out with friends and loved ones, safe in the knowledge that security personnel wearing an SIA badge are trained professionals there to protect them.”
Bolton added: “Adebusoye should have carried out the proper checks on his employees to make sure they held genuine licences required to ensure operatives have been trained to protect the public. He was negligent in his responsibilities and has now paid the price.”
Licensed security operatives undergo robust training requirements to help them protect people and property. Untrained and unvetted security operatives with fake or cloned licences put public safety at risk.
The SIA encourages security providers and buyers to check the SIA licences of security operatives to ensure they are genuine. Information on how to spot fake licences can be found online: How to check SIA licence cards.
The offence relating to the Private Security Industry Act 2001 that’s mentioned above relates to Section 5: Employing unlicensed persons in licensable conduct.
