 | | | | |  You are here: >> Up-coming Events >> ISIA Annual Awards 2011 | | | | | | The Irish Security Industry Association (ISIA) hosted the ISIA Awards on Saturday 26th November at Carton House Hotel. The awards were attended by about individuals from the private security industry and security managers from a variety of industries. Also in attendance were members of An Garda Síochána and the Irish Coast Guard.
As pointed out by ISIA President, John Lawlor “The ISIA Awards provides an opportunity to recognise the great work that the private security industry carries out and it contributes to ensuring that standards within the security industry are kept high. This annual event also provides the private security industry with an opportunity to acknowledge those individuals and groups that keep the island of Ireland safe and to give recognition to them with the ISIA Courage Award & the ISIA Premier Award”.
This year the ISIA presented five awards: The Premier Award, Courage Award, Security Officer of the Year, Event Security Person of the Year & an award for Innovation in Security.
| | | | The Premier Award 2011 | | Sponsored by |  | The Premier Award, sponsored by G4S, was presented to An Garda Síochána for the success of the security operations carried out during the visits of HM Queen Elizabeth II and United States President Obama.
“It was vital that these visits were a success in terms of security and it was important to us to recognise the outstanding role that An Garda Síochána played in ensuring the security operations for both visits were a success” stated ISIA President, John Lawlor.
The award was introduced and presented by Geraldine Larkin, Chief Executive of the Private Security Authority and John Lawlor, President, ISIA along with Niall Feely, MD of G4s and was accepted on behalf of the entire force by Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.
Commissioner Callinan in thanking the ISIA for this award also paid tribute to the men and women of An Garda Síochána and pointed out that “their dedication and professionalism is recognised by this award and greatly appreciated by both me and the community”. |
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| | | The Commissioner also stated when receiving the award “while we tried at all times to minimise the impact of security arrangements, we know that people were inconvenienced and we therefore appreciated in particular the fact that we almost always met with goodwill and good humour from people. The success of the visits was greatly enhanced by strong partnership and cooperation between a range of State agencies”. Also in attendance on the night were Deputy Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan and Assistant Commissioner Michael Feehan.
Previous winners have included John Hume, MEP, Paul Williams, Crime Editor, Michael McDowell, TD, Fr. Aidan Troy and last year the Premier Award Winner was Mr John Lonergan, former Governor of Mountjoy Prison. | | | | National Courage Award 2011 | | Sponsored by |  | | | This year’s recipient of the Courage Award was the Irish Coast Guard for the ongoing acts of courage and bravery continuously shown in all of the work they do which minimises the loss of life within the Irish Search and Rescue Region. Chris Reynolds, Director of the Irish Coast Guard was in attendance on the night to accept the award on their behalf. This year’s courage award was sponsored by Synergy Security Solutions and was presented to Chris Reynolds by Rory O’Reilly from Synergy Security Solutions. Chris Reynolds pointed out “their work is normally a silent service and a successful operation is one that doesn’t get attention. It is therefore an honour for the men and women of the Irish Coast Guard to be awarded for their work”. It so happens that on the same date that the awards were held the Dublin Helicopter Rescue Branch of the Irish Coast Guard broke its record for the number of rescues carried out in any calendar year.
| | Event Security Person of the Year 2011 | | Sponsored by |  | | | | The winner of the category for Event Security Person of the Year was Sandra Kelly of Sword, who was specifically nominated for the work she carries out at the O2. This category was introduced this year to recognise those individuals working in event and entertainment security, the unique challenges they face and the contribution they make to the overall customer experience at events. The award was sponsored by ISS Security Services and there were also two merit award recipients on the night; Sandra McGavin, Pulse Security for the work she carries out at Leopardstown Racecourse specifically for debs events and Des McKeown of G4S for the work he carries out at Thomond Park. | | | | Security Officer of the Year 2011 | Sponsored by
|  |  | The award for Security Officer of the Year was presented to John Corcoran, Synergy Security Solutions, for the outstanding work he does at Fournier Laboratories, part of Abbott Global Pharmaceuticals, and the excellent contribution he makes to their operation. The award was co-sponsored by MTS Security & RMS Security. There were also two merit award recipients on the night; Cathy Cowley of Provincial Security Services for the work she carries out at Paypal and Sherif Khalifa of Noonan for the work he carries out at the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords.
| | Innovation in Security 2011 | Sponsored by
|  | Another new category this year was the award for Innovation in Security. There were three finalists selected for this award G4S Monitoring Ireland, Jade and Niscayah. The ISIA felt it was important to develop an award the encouraged innovation in the industry. Sarah O’Donnell, Communication Director, ISIA stated, “we are confident that this will foster and encourage a commitment to innovation, which will ultimately drive competitiveness, quality, a higher level of service and customer satisfaction in the security industry overall”. The award was sponsored by Sword and the winner announced on the night was Niscayah. They had submitted an excellent example of a project carried out on behalf of Coillte which Martin Crothers, past President of the ISIA and member of the judging panel pointed out “had been approached in the true spirit of innovation”.
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