Westminster Group

The Westminster Group plc is a worldwide security company that specialises in Fire, Safety, Security and Defence. The firms' headquarters are at Westminster House, Blacklocks Hill, Overthorpe, near Banbury,Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The group operates through a network of over 70 agents and international offices in over 45 countries, with a slightly growing customer base consisting of predominately: governments and government agencies, embassies, non-governmental organisations and commercial organisations.

Over the years the company has and still provides worldwide anti-terrorist equipment and systems, as well as specialist diver detection systems, perimeter and border security, pipeline protection systems and homeland security. It saw press in 2007 from the UK national newspaper The Times over the appointment of their then new Non-Executive Chairman, Sir Malcolm Ross. National newspaper The Daily Express also commented about the company's intention to float on the Alternative Investment Market, as did The Times.

Westminster's Non-Executive Chairman is Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE, Master of the Household of the Prince of Wales and formerly of the Royal Household, and the company is run by its Chief Executive Officer, Peter Fowler.

Westminster was founded in 1988 as a security systems business (called "Westminster Security Systems") supplying systems and equipment to the UK domestic and commercial marketplace.

In 1990, Westminster Security Systems was acquired by Menvier-Swain Group plc, at which time Peter Fowler joined Westminster Security Systems as Managing Director. Westminster Security Systems gained a number of notable achievements being the first security company to achieve NACOSS (National Approval Council for Security Systems) approval and certification to BS 5750 Quality Assurance, the first security company to be awarded a SITO (Security Industry Training Organisation) training award and the first company to design and install a full colour town centre CCTV surveillance system within the UK, linking the towns of Banbury, Bicester and Kidlington. They also supplied several firms in these towns and Bloxham with fire and burglar alarms, but sales have slackened off due to the credit crunch.

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