Legal Warning: North Glasow Housing Association have pointed out that M&M have not been hired by them since 2002. In addition, Robert Tamburrini denies any current connection with the McGovern family or associates.

A FRONTMAN for gangster-owned security firm M&M has bragged how the name stands for Murder and Mayhem.

The chilling boast, revealing the true face of Scotland's security industry, was caught on camera during secret filming by the BBC.

John Fox, a former Children's Panel member, smirks as he makes the claim which will be screened in Tuesday's edition of Frontline Scotland.

Asked what M&M stands for, Fox says: 'Mad and Madder... Murder and Mayhem.'
The company's initials are meant to represent the names of co-owners convicted murderer Paul McGovern, 30, and George Madden, 43.

M&M were targeted as part of a BBC investigation into Scotland's rogue security firms and their gangland links. Reporter Sam Poling set up a bogus building site in Glasgow and invited M&M and rival firms Frontline and Osiris to tender for the security contract.

Representatives of the three would-be 'respectable' firms were caught on camera admitting who really owns them McGovern, notorious gangster Paul Ferris and Marie Johnston, wife of bent ex-cop Paul.

All three firms' gangland links have been repeatedly exposed by the Sunday Mail but they continue to get work from reputable firms. Each of the companies are at the centre of Scotland's 'securiwars', where firms are often a front for money laundering, drug dealing, and other organised crime. They use violence, blackmail and intimidation to win contracts and undercut respectable rivals by not paying tax. Frontline also caught Madden on camera. Believing he is talking to an out-of-town property developer, he admits that Fox is merely a frontman for him and McGovern. Fox was previously the licensee for the New Morven bar, in Springburn, Glasgow, where McGovern's drug dealer brother Tony was gunned down in 2001. The McGovern-owned pub was run by family associate Jim Milligan and ex-Celtic and Scotland star Charlie Nicholas. Madden said: 'M&M, Madden and McGovern. Paul is my partner, John's the director. On paper, we don't exist, actually. On paper, it's John's company.' Madden also claimed the company was run by 'the good, the bad and the ugly'. Poling, 30, asked him: 'So which is the good, the bad and the ugly?' Madden: 'You've still to meet the ugly Paul.' Poling then asks: 'So you're the bad?' Madden: 'When the need arises.' M&M has landed contracts from the publicly-funded North Glasgow Housing Association.

We revealed in 2000 that boss Robert Tamburrini, whose ex-wife's brother is a McGovern associate, had hired M&M. Two years later the NGHA hired them again to patrol the streets of Springburn. At the time, NGHA chairman David Cowan said: 'To our knowledge, M&M are a legitimate business.' One industry source said: 'This BBC investigation means people like NGHA can no longer pay them a single penny of public money.'

The BBC probe also reveals how the old boss of Guardion security is back in charge of its successor firm, Osiris.

Marie Johnston, 37, is now back as boss after the firm was meant to have been sold.
Ferris was also targeted in the BBC report. He has always claimed he is merely a 'consultant' to Frontline.

But his frontwoman Nancy Jones said: 'It's Paul Ferris that owns Frontline. Have you heard of him?' The revelations will increase pressure on the Scottish Executive to introduce licensing of security firms.

Legitimate companies are up against crooks who use gangland muscle to steal contracts.
Many crooks also charge artificially low prices because they fail to pay the minimum wage and don't pay tax. Last March, then Justice Minister Jim Wallace announced firms would need a licence from the Security Industry Authority. But the SIA has so far failed to issue a single licence. Meanwhile, a dead drug dealer's son has been targeted by rival criminals for stirring up the securi-wars.

JD Security boss Jason Dickson, 27, and his gang are linked to assaults, threats and fire-raising. Police are probing links between Dickson and the torching of a Persimmon Homes site in Hamilton last Sunday. Firebugs destroyed two houses, worth around £300,000 each.
The legitimate firm who provide site security don't know which of their rogue rivals are behind the attack.

Several weeks ago, JD's offices in Hamilton were torched. Many security firm crooks have been reluctant to tackle Dickson as they are desperate to win a licence. Dickson, who once survived a drive-by shooting, is the step-son of late drug dealer Vinnie Dickson.
One underworld source said: 'This boy is called The Pest. He's been running about like a headcase and having a go at everyone.'

In the past few weeks, legitimate Dalziel Security has been targeted by Dickson. Boss Cameron Dalziel, 40, of Motherwell, called in the police. Dickson and three heavies tried to attack Dalziel at his office. Other incidents include an attack on a 58-year-old guard and the attempted abduction of another guard. Dickson also made threats against a building firm boss at a Motherwell site.