About AEGIS Protective Services

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AEGIS Protective Services is a specialist provider of Healthcare Security Officer Training in the UK, delivering risk-informed, evidence-based programmes that support safe, lawful, and professional practice in NHS environments.

Our approach is built on one principle: training must stand up to scrutiny.

Healthcare Security Officers operate in complex, high-risk environments where decisions carry legal, clinical, and organisational consequences. In this context, training must be structured, measurable, and defensible.

Our training courses set the professional training standards for Healthcare Security Officers and are designed to provide not just knowledge – but assurance.

Through standardised online assessment, verifiable training records, and nationally consistent certification, we help organisations demonstrate competence, governance, and due diligence.

This ensures:

• Consistency in knowledge and decision-making across teams and sites
• Verifiable evidence of competence for every individual
• Robust audit trails to support governance, assurance, and accountability.

Because in healthcare security, when decisions are challenged, it’s not just what staff are taught that counts. It’s what can be proven.

Jim O’Dwyer is the Senior Consultant at AEGIS Protective Services.

Jim is a specialist in workplace violence prevention and management, with over 25 years’ experience in developing training for staff operating in high-risk environments.

Since 2007, he has acted as an Expert Witness in cases involving workplace-related violence and the use of force.

Jim served for 14 years with the Metropolitan Police Service, including five years leading the Central London Pickpocket Squad, where he received commendations for bravery and professional ability. This operational experience underpins his practical, real-world approach to training.

A recognised specialist in physical intervention and restraint, Jim’s approach is influenced by Aikido, a discipline centred on control and non-aggression. He is a 4th Dan Black Belt and Chief Instructor at Bournemouth Aikido Club.

Jim founded AEGIS Protective Services in 1997 and has played a leading role in shaping training standards within the security sector.

His training programmes have achieved recognition and approval from multiple awarding bodies and professional organisations, including Highfields, the Security Institute, Skills for Security, the National Association for Healthcare Security (NAHS), and the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) UK Chapter.

Jim has also designed nationally recognised training programmes, including SIA licence-linked physical intervention training for Door Supervisors and specialist training frameworks for Healthcare Security Officers.

Jim continues to advise on the safe, lawful, and proportionate management of violence in the workplace, combining operational insight with defensible training design.

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