{"id":50276,"date":"2025-09-29T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:20:15","slug":"best-of-new-zealands-security-industry-celebrated-at-annual-awards-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50276\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Zealand’s security industry celebrated at annual awards gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Awards\"
\nIndustry night of nights delivers 19 winners.<\/p>\n

Last Friday\u2019s annual gala dinner event saw high performing security professionals recognised across 17 categories from security guards and patrol officers to security technicians, consultants, administrators, and managers.<\/p>\n

Organised by the New Zealand Security Association, the security industry\u2019s night of nights took place at the Grand Millennium Hotel, Auckland, on Friday 26 September.<\/p>\n

The premier event on the industry calendar for providers of security services, systems, and solutions, the 2025 edition of the New Zealand Security Awards did not disappoint, with winners announced across 19 categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cA special congratulations to all of our 2025 Award Winners. We were delighted to honour your achievements and recognise the outstanding impact you continue to make across the security industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Highlights included speeches by Police Minister Mark Mitchell and Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority (PSPLA) Chair Trish McConnell.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was wonderful to come together on Friday at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland to celebrate the 2025 NZ Security Awards,\u201d stated an Association announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to everyone who contributed to making the evening such a success \u2013 from those who submitted nominations, through to our finalists and generous sponsors.<\/p>\n

\u201cA special congratulations to all of our 2025 Award Winners. We were delighted to honour your achievements and recognise the outstanding impact you continue to make across the security industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Award Winners<\/p>\n

And the winners for 2025 are\u2026<\/p>\n

Security Professional of the Year 2025
Ray Nisbet \u2013 FIRST Security<\/p>\n

Customer Champion of the Year
Steve Cooke \u2013 Gallagher Security<\/p>\n

Design and Support Electronic Sector Professional of the Year
Hennie Lombard \u2013 Gallagher Security<\/p>\n

Electronic SECURITY Trainee of the Year
Beren Boden \u2013 Advanced Security Group<\/p>\n

Guarding Sector Trainee of the Year
Zarn Strickland \u2013 FIRST Security<\/p>\n

Install and Service Electronic Sector (Corporate) Technician of the Year
Andrew Francis \u2013 Advanced Security Group (NZ) Ltd<\/p>\n

Install and Service Electronic Sector (SME) Technician of the Year
Nino Eichler \u2013 Matrix Security Group<\/p>\n

Michael Pepper Award for Outstanding Security Training Initiative
Advanced Security Group (NZ) Ltd<\/p>\n

Monitoring \/ Communication Centre Operator of the Year
Emma Hau \u2013 Code 9<\/p>\n

Outstanding New Product or Service of the Year
Alarm Watch<\/p>\n

Outstanding Staff Development\/Staff Culture Programme
Dave Cheyne \u2013 Allied Security<\/p>\n

Patrol Officer of the Year
Ray Nisbet \u2013 FIRST Security<\/p>\n

Security Administrator of the Year
Chris Stewart \u2013 FIRST Security<\/p>\n

Security Consultant of the Year
Nicholas Dynon \u2013 Optic Security Group<\/p>\n

Security Integrator of the year
VUW Upgrade Team \u2013 Optic Security Group<\/p>\n

Security Officer of the Year
Oselise Muliava & Roshan Mohammed \u2013 Armourguard Security<\/p>\n

Security Supervisor\/Operations Manager of the Year
Nanaia Haua \u2013 SPS Security<\/p>\n

Security Trainer or Workplace Assessor of the Year
Ben Kingi Snr & Ben Kingi Jnr \u2013 Pop Training<\/p>\n

Specialised Security Services Professional of the Year
Colin Norman \u2013 FIRST Security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Industry night of nights delivers 19 winners. Last Friday\u2019s annual gala dinner event saw high performing security professionals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43598,43599,43600,111,43601,43,139,69,43602],"class_list":["post-50276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-gary-morrison","tag-industry-awards","tag-mark-mitchell","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-security-association","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-trish-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}