Security guard fraud exposed by undercover researchers
Thousands of licensed security guards could be working in the UK fraudulently after buying qualifications for cash, a BBC London Inside Out investigation has found.
Jobseekers must sit mandatory exams to get a Security Industry Authority card.
But undercover researchers infiltrated colleges happy to sit or forge exams for untrained students in return for money.
With a fraudulently obtained SIA licence obtained through one of the colleges, the researcher got a job offer at a power station and an interview to guard Canary Wharf.
23 Mar 2015