{"id":530,"date":"2019-10-28T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=530"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:53:35","slug":"david-gordon-mobile-supervisor-security-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2019\/10\/28\/david-gordon-mobile-supervisor-security-services\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gordon, Mobile Supervisor, Security Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-531\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2019\/10\/Dave_Gordon-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cFrom providing security advice, to stopping bike thieves and giving CPR to save someone\u2019s life on campus &#8211; I love the work I do.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before joining Imperial, I worked in the Home Office for 13 years in a variety of roles, the last being working on the Cutter Fleet \u2013 this involved boarding vessels out at sea and looking for drugs, firearms and other prohibited items.<\/p>\n<p>I joined Imperial in 2015 as a Senior Security Officer. My current role as a Mobile Supervisor focuses on overseeing security operations at all Imperial\u2019s campuses, and I share responsibility for 114 members of staff. I am fortunate that I get to work across all campuses, and enjoy meeting and engaging with all our stakeholders.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Working for Imperial is completely different to working for the Government. The support and encouragement I have received from all levels, from directors through to my line manager, is something I have never experienced before. I feel like a valued member of the team, and the training we receive in security is of the highest standard. As a team, we are always looking for ways to improve the service we provide.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy working in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/estates-facilities\/security\/\">Security Services<\/a> as no two days are ever the same. From providing security advice, protecting our campuses during patrols, to stopping a bike thief or most recently, giving CPR and saving someone\u2019s life on campus, I love the work I do.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big step to leave what I knew in the Home Office, but there isn\u2019t a day that goes by that I regret leaving my previous role to join Imperial, and I\u2019m thankful for the opportunities that working here has offered me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFrom providing security advice, to stopping bike thieves and giving CPR to save someone\u2019s life on campus &#8211; I love the work I do.\u201d Before joining Imperial, I worked in the Home Office for 13 years in a variety of roles, the last being working on the Cutter Fleet \u2013 this involved boarding vessels out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}