FOI release

Outcome of SIA inspections and SIA planning for Martyn's Law

Published 17 September 2026

Request

1. You recently published the following article, SIA inspections uncover public safety risks in night-time economy, in which you reference various offences that were disclosed during your checks. Please provide the confirmed number of compliance checks that were completed during this operation and an itemised list of the offences that you identified as a result of those checks. For each offence, please list your statutory disposal of each (for example, no further action, warning, prosecution, revocation). I am happy for you to use the terminology you best believe describes the disposal action, I just ask that it is obvious what action you took.

2. Please provide the target operating model (TOM) for the delivery of Martyn’s Law regulation and for each role within this please describe any relevant counter-terrorism qualifications (not experience), that the role holder is required (must) to have.

3. Please provide your anticipated registration of responsible persons in year 1, year 2, and year 3. This is the number you are reasonably expecting to register and have planned to be able to manage. Please provide your anticipated level of inspection activity in relation to premises that have registered in years 1, 2 and 3. For the avoidance of doubt, this question is seeking to understand how many premises you expect to visit in relation to assuring compliance with the legislation.

Response

Thank you for your request for information from the Security Industry Authority (SIA) which we received on 10 July 2026. We have treated your request in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response to question 1

A total of 454 security operatives were checked as part of the SIA’s unannounced inspections conducted on 21 June 2026.

Fifteen offences under Section 9 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (the Act) were detected (breach of licence conditions). Three were dealt with by written warnings, and the other 12 received verbal warnings.

Six suspected offences under Section 3 of the Act were detected (engaging in licensable activity without a valid licence). One of the operatives found working on a cloned licence was identified as an immigration overstayer and was arrested by the police. One suspected of working on someone else’s licence, who fled the scene while speaking with investigators.

Of the other 4, one has now had the offence disposed of by way or warning, and the remaining 3 are still subject to active consideration by the SIA as to what, if any, regulatory action is warranted.

Response to question 2

We cannot release the information requested for Martyn’s Law. The TOM is still under development and subject to policy development. It is therefore exempt from release under sections 35 (formulation of government policy) and 36 (prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs) of the Freedom of Information Act.

In terms of role requirements, you can review any of the recruitment adverts we have published to date. These are therefore exempt under section 21 (information accessible to applicant by other means) of the Freedom of Information Act.

The recently published economic note (which accompanied the Statutory Instrument on Notifications) Terrorism Protection of Premises Act 2025: notification requirement economic note sets out the overall projected costs of the regulator. This is therefore also exempt under section 21 (information accessible to applicant by other means) of the Freedom of Information Act.

Response to question 3

We do not hold the information requested as this is still under policy development.

[Ref: FOI 0626]