So who is thebouncer?
Andy was born in West London in 1964, joining the British Army at the age of 16 when he left school. Following a short military career, serving in England and Germany, he returned to the UK to join the Metropolitan Police Force in 1986. There he served in West and Central London both as a uniformed Police Constable and as a detective. In 1996 he transferred ‘up North’ to join the Humberside Police, serving a further 6 years in East Yorkshire.
Throughout most of his police career he also ‘moonlighted’ as a pub and nightclub bouncer on licensed premises all over the country.
In 2001 he published the highly-respected “Safer Doors” training handbook for doormen, commonly referred to in the press as the ‘bouncer’s bible’.
In 2002 he left the police to join the private security industry on a full-time basis, becoming the training director of a large national leisure security company that provided door staff to pubs and clubs all over the UK.
In 2003 he was selected to work as the door supervisor consultant for the newly-appointed Government body brought in to regulate the private security industry, the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
He now runs his own company that trains door staff for their government licences, and regularly talks at national conferences, exhibitions and meetings on the subject of security in the night-time economy.
Each year he organises, manages and hosts the one-day Safer Doors Conferences, the only national conferences specifically for door staff.
An excellent, informed, amusing and sometimes controversial public speaker, Andy now travels the UK and abroad recounting his experiences as ‘a bouncer’, using his talks to help people to improve their performance in their private and business lives.
