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SectorGuard PLC 
30 March 2009 
 

Sector Guard plc 
("SectorGuard" or the "Company") 
 
 
 
 
Appointment of General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO DL as Non Executive Director 
 
 
SectorGuard ("SectorGuard" or the "Company"), the AIM listed provider of 
security and fire protection services which recently completed the acquisition 
of Legion Group Plc, is delighted to announce the appointment of General Sir 
Mike Jackson as a Non Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 Apr 
2009. 
 
 
General Sir Mike (65) had a distinguished career in the British Army spanning 
some 45 years and is a former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army and 
Commander of the Nato Kosovo Force. General Sir Mike was awarded the MBE in 
1979, the CBE in 1992, the CB in 1996, the KCB in 1998, the DSO in 1999 and the 
GCB in 2004. 
 
 
Since retiring from the Army in 2006 General Sir Mike has taken up a number of 
consultancy and board positions. He is currently a senior advisor with PA 
Consulting Group and sits on the Rolls Royce International Advisory Board and 
has in the recent past held positions with Numis Securities and the Risk 
Advisory Group. 
 
 
Charlie Cleverly, Managing Director of SectorGuard commented: 
 
 
"We are delighted to welcome someone of the calibre of General Sir Mike to the 
Board. His breadth of experience and depth of knowledge will undoubtedly be a 
great addition to our Company, especially in light of the recent acquisition of 
Legion Group plc. We all look forward to working with General Sir Mike in the 
future development of the Company." 
 
 
 
General Sir Mike Jackson commented: 
 
 
"I am very pleased to be joining the board at SectorGuard plc, especially at a 
time when the company has just acquired Legion Group plc. This is an exciting 
advance, and I look forward to helping the company continue its successful 
progress." 
 
 
30 March 2009 
 
 
Enquiries: 
 
 
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| SectorGuard | 01992 701972  | 
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| Mark        |               | 
| Higgins,    |               | 
| Chief       |               | 
| Executive   |               | 
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| Charlie     |               | 
| Cleverly,   |               | 
| Managing    |               | 
| Director    |               | 
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| Seymour     | 020 7107 8000 | 
| Pierce      |               | 
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| Jonathan    |               | 
| Wright      |               | 
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| College     | 020 7457 2020 | 
| Hill        |               | 
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| Nick        |               | 
| Elwes       |               | 
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www.sectorguard.co.uk 
 
 
Notes to Editors: 
 
 
General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO DL 
 
General Sir Mike Jackson was commissioned from Sandhurst into the 
Intelligence Corps in December 1963; he studied for an in-service degree in 
Russian Studies from 1964 to 1967. After graduating, he spent two years on 
secondment to the Parachute Regiment and subsequently transferred from the 
Intelligence Corps in 1970. During the early 70s he served in Northern Ireland, 
and with the TA in Scotland. 
 
 He attended the Staff College in 1976, 
after which he spent two years as the Chief of Staff of the Berlin Infantry 
Brigade. He then commanded a parachute company for two years, once more in 
Northern Ireland. 
 
 After a six-month course at the 
National Defence College at Latimer in 1981, he joined the Directing Staff at 
the Staff College. His two-and-a-half-year tour at Camberley included a ten week 
attachment to the 
 Ministry of Defence during the Falklands conflict. 
 
 He commanded 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment from March 1984 to 
September 1986. Throughout his period of command the Battalion was part of the 
NATO Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (Land), a role which included three 
winters spent in Norway on arctic training. 
 
 For just over two years, until the end of 1988, he was the Senior 
Directing Staff (Army) at the Joint Service Defence College, Greenwich. 
Following the Higher Command and Staff Course at Camberley in early 1989, he 
then spent six months on a Service Fellowship at Cambridge writing a paper on 
the future of the British Army. 
 
 He moved back to Northern Ireland in late 1989 to command 39 Infantry 
Brigade for two and a half years. 1992 and 1993 were spent in the Ministry of 
Defence as Director General Personnel Services (Army). He commanded the 3rd 
(United Kingdom) Division from March 1994 to July 1996. In August 1995 he was 
selected to assume command of UNPROFOR in Bosnia at the end of that year; in the 
event, however, after the success of the Dayton talks, he spent the first half 
of 1996 in Bosnia commanding IFOR's Multinational Division South West. He 
assumed the appointment of Commander ACE Rapid Reaction Corps in the rank of 
Lieutenant General in February 1997, following a brief assignment as Director 
General Development and Doctrine. 
 
 He deployed with ARRC HQ as Commander Kosovo Force to Macedonia in March 
1999 and subsequently commanded Kosovo Force in Pristina from June to October 
1999. He assumed the appointment of Commander in Chief Land Command on 1 March 
2000. He assumed the appointment of Chief of the General Staff on 1 February, 
and left office on 29 August 2006. 
 
 
General Sir Mike Jackson was awarded the MBE in 1979, the CBE in 1992, the CB in 
1996, the KCB in 1998, the DSO in 1999 and the GCB in 2004. 
 
 
AIM Rules disclosures: 
 
 
General Sir Mike Jackson is currently a director of Saddleback Corporation 
Limited and, in the past five years, has been a director of Silk Route Resources 
Limited, The Risk Advisory Group (Holdings) plc and Benchmark Search Group Ltd. 
 
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