With decades of experience delivering courses to clients both in the private and public sector Vanguard Training aims to bring you the customer the best in regard to training. Fully qualified and experienced in all areas we deliver you can be assured you are hiring the very best.​
The Director and Owner of the company is Gary Arthur. He has worked over the past thirty years in such areas as Static and Retail Security, Close Protection, Traffic Management, Security Management and as a full time police officer. He was head of security for over one hundred NHS properties, arranged security for pop stars and multi-millionaires, Manager for the largest free standing leisure stadium in Northamptonshire, managed a team of nine security officer for a major supermarket chain and carried out over 200 arrests per year. He has since worked as a trainer working on behalf of a number of companies where they needed a trainer to pass on certain skills in the industry. He set up Vanguard Security Training in October 2021 initially to just deliver Conflict management but has grown to deliver other courses within the security industry.
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Gary also runs a full time martial arts school based in Northampton Town Centre called "Warrior Quest Martial Arts"and holds eight black belts in Martial arts and has trained in Europe, America and Japan with some of the best instructors in the world. Gary Holds the following Qualifications...
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City and Guilds Level 3 Trainer in Life Long Learning Award
NCFE Level 3 Qualification Assessors Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Conflict Management Trainers Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Physical Intervention Trainers Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Prevention of Management and Aggression Trainers Award
NCFE Chapter 8 Award
Home Office Trained in Control and Restraint
First Aid Qualified Trainer
Full enhanced DBS
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Gary Arthur and Vanguard has worked with and on behalf of some of the following companies and private bodies.













