Students undertaking a security course at the College of West Anglia are getting a real insight into the industry. Seventeen of them are spending three days a week carrying out security duties there. This has included checking other students are wearing lanyards to prove identities, challenging those not wearing them, car park patrols, helping at open days, liaising with the college’s own security staff and even leading the parade at the graduation ceremony. Lee Mallott, programme manager for Uniformed Services, said the students’ security duties, the same being carried out the Isle campus at Wisbech, gave them work experience to help those interested in the private sector security industry. Once their course has been completed the students hope to look at careers in close security work and even the military. Students on the security course, said others on the campus related well to what they were doing. Mr Mallott said they acted as fantastic ambassadors for the college. Security, under course director Ben Paull, is one of six courses under the umbrella of Uniformed Services, which has 228 students across its campuses at King’s Lynn, Isle in Wisbech and Cambridge.