GTS Solutions chief executive Chris Thewlis has been appointed to the Strategy and Standards Group (SSG) of the UK Security Industry Authority (SIA).
Thewlis will meet regularly with the SSG to advise on the creation of better career pathways, training and operational standards. The SIA regulates and licenses the private security industry in the UK.
His firm is the only social enterprise operating in the UK’s private security industry delivering services to clients from private, public and third sectors.
He said: “It’s a real honour to be given this role and I’m looking forward to working with the SIA to look at ways of helping improve industry standards, that add value to those organisations and individuals which actively adopt and support best practice in their policies, procedures and operations."
To make time for his new commitment, Thewlis will resign from his policy board position at the Scottish Business Resilience Centre and from the board of Social Enterprise Scotland.
