Tina Marshall is UK Personal Safety Champion

Tina Marshall, who works for Argyll and Bute Council, was made Personal Safety Champion at the National Personal Safety Awards, presented at a fundraising ball for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust in London’s Riverside Park Plaza Hotel. The event was hosted by Channel 4′s Samira Ahmed and the awards sponsored by Ila Security.

Tina – pictured below receiving her award, beat thousands of competitors from across the UK and Council Leader, Dick Walsh, says: ‘I am extremely proud of Tina and the work she does here in Argyll and Bute. She is the Council’s Personal Safety Trainer and has trained almost 2,000 of her colleagues in methods to help reduce the risk of violence and aggression for people working here.’

Steven Gauge, Chief Executive of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, said at the event: ‘We couldn’t have been more pleased with the inaugural National Personal Safety Awards. The calibre of nominees was outstanding and the backing we received from sponsors and other corporate support was tremendous. We would really like to thank everyone who helped to make the awards such a success and look forward to making this an annual event’.

Personal safety is something close to the heart of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. Suzy Lamplugh was a young estate agent who vanished in 1986 after a solo appointment to show someone she referred to as ‘Mr Kipper’ a house in London’s Shorrold’s Road. In 1994 she was officially declared dead, presumed murdered. No one has ever been convicted.

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