A COVENTRY man has been prosecuted for breaching security licence conditions.
Jim Munupe pleaded guilty to breaching his Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence conditions and was handed a 12-month conditional discharge.
Coventry magistrates court also ordered him to pay £200 prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of £26 within 14 days and he now has a criminal record.
On October 4 a counterfeit licence was handed to the SIA which had the name of a legitimate licence holder on it.
Information received indicated the licence was at a Basingstoke construction site, which triggered an SIA criminal investigation.
The investigation revealed the security supplier for the site was Ascent Onsite Services Ltd, of which Jim Munepe was the sole director.
An information request was sent to Munupe’s registered Coventry address but he had moved in July 2020 and failed to notify the SIA.
Munupe was found and interviewed under caution on February 3 alongside his operations manager.
During the interview, Munupe told investigators he had moved but failed to tell the SIA, which was confirmed by his operations manager.
Munupe denied supplying illegal security to the Basingstoke construction site and said he had stopped supplying security to the site in January 2023.
The SIA prosecuted Munupe for failing to inform them of his change of address.
Jenny Hart, one of the SIA’s Criminal Investigations Managers, said failing to inform the SIA of a change of address was a breach of the licensing conditions.
“The purpose of the licensing regime is to keep people safe and to keep licence holders personally accountable to the conditions of their licence.
“Both front-line and non-front-line licence holders need to tell the SIA of any changes to their name or address within six weeks from the date of the change.
“If a licence holder does not tell the SIA by this deadline, then they will have failed to meet the conditions of their licence.”
