Unified Security: Hotel quarantine provider during pandemic must wait for decision

A decision on whether hotel quarantine security guard provider Unified Security will lose its operating licence — which was due on Friday — has been delayed.

Hotel quarantine guard provider Unified Security has been granted a stay on the loss of its licence.

The controversial Sydney company was to be booted out of the quarantine program on Friday following a decision by the Security Licensing and Enforcement Directorate of NSW Police .

Unified provides about 30 per cent of the guards in the program.

The interim stay granted by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday will be in place until Monday, April 26.

Unified Security Group, which is responsible for hiring guards to watch quarantine hotels, may ywt lose its licence.

A Unified spokesman said “we remain confident of our position and of having the matter appropriately resolved by NCAT.”

SLED took the decision to revoke Unified’s master licence earlier this month over ““undeclared changes in ownership”.

The decision followed a police investigation that had run for at least five months.

Since April last year, Unified has received more than $30 million under a quarantine contract with the NSW government, providing 200 to 300 guards a day at more than 15 hotels.