Challenges in the Private Security Sector
Private security in South Africa faces critical challenges including non-compliance, exploitative practices, and a lack of effective training solutions. The Security Industry Alliance (SIA) highlights the urgent need for regulatory focus, insourcing, and compliance in the industry to address these burning platforms and ensure the sector's growth and job creation potential.
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The Fall of a Critical Sector PRESENTATION BY THE SECURITY INDUSTRY ALLIANCE (SIA) TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE OF POLICE
About the Security Industry Alliance (SIA) About the Security Industry Alliance (SIA) SIA is an alliance of security associations and individual companies in South Africa Members employ nearly 200,000 people Industry body which represents common interests across all sub-sectors Excellent working relationship with regulator, PSIRA Member companies are required to subscribe to a code of conduct
Why Private Security? Why Private Security? Non- Policing Functions Guarding Commercial Property Protecting government buildings Guarding Private Property Assets in Transit Services Systems Installations Electronic Equipment Distribution Stock Control and Checking Residential Response Locksmiths Close Protection
Critical Sector 150 000 New Jobs in 5 Years Investments in Skills and Training 500 000 Jobs Youth Employment 4
Burning Platforms Burning Platforms Our agenda today Our agenda today Compliance A serious and urgent deteriorating situation A ticking time bomb Insourcing After 10 years of initiatives to overhaul security training, no workable solutions are on the table Training PSIRA Regulatory focus needed
Compliance Fewer than 8% of security guarding companies are compliant with the PSSPF. Despite this, the other 92% are routinely given PSIRA letters of good standing every 90 days As many as 100,000 people are employed in exploitative atypical practices including self-employed security officers and so called independent contractors Government and SOE s account for more than 50% of spending on private security companies, the overwhelming majority of which are non-compliant Non compliant companies are no longer a nuisance operating on the fringes. They are almost the entire guarding industry. 6
Insourcing Destruction of skills Destruction of job opportunities Crisis of compliance The crisis at our universities 7
Training and Skills Development The dual SASSETA and PSIRA training system is fundamentally inappropriate Current proposals on revised PSIRA training regulations will destroy employment in the Sector PSIRA should not be a professional body in the Sector 8
PSIRA The regulator s activities, extensive as they have been have not addressed a worsening compliance problem in the sector Traditional regulatory methods need to be discarded and more innovative, smart solutions are needed The regulator should focus on its core competence. Initiatives like attempting to register as a professional body are a distraction Some high profile enforcement wins are needed to send a strong message to Government and Business community alike that non-compliance will not be tolerated 9
Thank you 10
