5 April 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal

UK pipeline operator and consultant British Pipeline Agency Limited (BPA) has extended a security management contract with Axis Security.

Axis Security’s units comprise four employees covering two patrols, a north and south team, and each officer works 40 hours a week. This extension of Axis and BPA’s security deal furthers the existing round-the-clock security responsibilities protecting BPA’s Kingsbury Oil Terminal Site.

Andrew Murray, security manager for BPA, said: “BPA are happy to be working closely with Axis in protecting the UK pipeline infrastructure for which we are responsible as operators,”

“Axis are providing BPA with a professional nationwide security management service under BPA’s own Security Management Strategy, delivering a proactive surveillance and deterrent to interference with critical UK pipeline infrastructure”

David Mundell, managing director of Axis Security, said: “This is a good example of a fully functional security operation being extended through our officers’ hard work and dedication at an existing site.”

The BPA controls and manages more than 800 kilometres of pipeline systems extending from Merseyside, through the Midlands, and down to the River Thames in the South-East.