ACCC institutes criminal proceedings against Chubb Security Australia for failing to provide mobile patrol services

Chubb Security Australia appeared before Justice Annabelle Bennett of the Federal Court, Sydney today charged with 12 charges of contravening s 58(b) and 14 charges of contravening s 75AZL(3) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Chubb informed the court today that it proposes to plead guilty to the charges and Justice Bennett listed the matter for one day's hearing at 10.15 a.m. on 15 October 2004 to determine the appropriate penalty.

The charges relate to Chubb entering into agreements with clients to provide security services when at the time of entering into the agreements there were reasonable grounds of which Chubb was aware for believing that it would be unable to supply all contracted services within the period agreed.  The contracts were entered into between 5 June 2001 and 4 November 2002.

Clients affected were located in Sydney, the Gosford region, Canberra and Tasmania.