john halstead

electronics operations director

John has nearly forty years of experience in the security industry and has performed every role imaginable from front line alarm installation all the way up to director level. John started off in security protecting cash and valuables in transit for what was then Securicor. After a spell running the Alarm Receiving Centre for Shorrocks, John was head hunted by Guardhall Security Group in 1996. John’s outstanding managerial performance led to him being made a director in 2001, a role which he has been persuaded to continue for FGH Guardhall.

John is currently responsible for overseeing all of FGH Guardhall’s electronic operations – as we’ve said before he’s a man who knows his ARC from his elbow. This is a wide ranging role and encompasses overseeing the day to day running of the FGH Guardhall Head Office, the Alarm Receiving Centre and all of the electronic engineers’ activities. He is also a family man with two grown up daughters, three grandsons and one more on the way. Trust is the central issue with any security company according to John. He points out that he has worked with some of his current customers for over twenty years. When a mutual bond of trust is established then security provision is at its best.

Outside of FGH Guardhall John also works as a magistrate at Accrington’s busy magistrate’s court, and has been doing so for over ten years. He regards it as a valuable service to his community. In addition to this John is a keen player of snooker with a stack of amateur trophies. He is still regularly making breaks of over 50 and has, in his time, played against such legends as Dennis Taylor and Alex Higgins. John remembers watching Alex Higgins playing cash games against two separate opponents at any one time and then taking all the winnings straight to the bookies. He regards him as a great character of what is now a past age.