SIA reports sentencing of individual who posed as a licensed security operative

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The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has reported that Adewale Balogun has been sentenced after investigators identified that he had used a false instrument and possessed a false identity document while attempting to work as a licensed security operative at two separate events. The SIA has said that, by law, security operatives working under contract must hold and display a valid SIA licence. Balogun pleaded guilty to all charges at Bolton Crown Court on 31 July 2023 and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for using a false instrument, contrary to section 3 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, three months’ imprisonment for fraud by false representation, contrary to section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006, and three months’ imprisonment for possession of a false identity document, contrary to section 6 of the Identity Documents Act 2010. The SIA has said that these sentences were ordered to run concurrently and were suspended for a period...