Leyland security firm's NHS staff get stab vests (From Preston and Leyland Citizen)

Leyland security firm's NHS staff get stab vests

9:30pm Monday 15th September 2008

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Staff at a Leyland security firm have been issued with stab vests is response to the growing knife culture.

The Kudos Group, based at 4 Farmyard Cottages, Worden Park, have handed out seven of the vests, which cost up to £250 each to security staff working in the NHS across the North West.

The company are now in the process of ordering a further 10 vests The idea is the brainchild of Kudos’ new group business development director Mark Prendergast, who was himself threatened with a knife earlier this year while working as a doorman.

The 36-year-old said: “We’ve given the first vests to our staff working within the NHS as they work unsociable hours and we feel this is the best way to protect them.

“The reality is you can’t open up a paper without reading about a stabbing and we want to be proactive in tackling the problem.”

The vests are normally worn under shirts so can’t be seen to the public and can protect from everything including knives, syringes, spikes and slashes.

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