Monday, July 6, 2015

Almost 24,000 private security companies not affiliated to, but … – Digital Journal

Almost 24,000 private security guards are not linked to any company, but have professional card within the validity period, reveals the private security Annual Report 2014.

The document, to which Lusa had access , stresses that are registered 23,969 “inactive private security guards (not tied to entities providing private security services), but whose professional cards are still within the respective validity period”, meaning that 61 percent of the valid card holders hold bond labor.

The report, approved on Friday by the Private Security Council, at a meeting held at the Ministry of Interior, said that, in late 2014, were registered 36,871 active vigilant, less than 758 in 2013.

The number of private security guards with valid professional card and bound by an employment contract to a private security company or entity authorized to organize for self-protection services has shown a decrease started in 2011, when there were 40 287 vigilant.

According to the report, there is “an exponential increase in irregular situations applications for the issue or renewal of professional card”, the most common being counterfeits of vocational training certificates, educational certificates and medical fitness chips and presentation of criminal with writing intentional crimes.

In 2014, the Department of Private Security (DPS) of the PSP, which results in exclusive licensing procedures of entities and personnel Private security, issued 10,746 cards Professional private security, corresponding to 4,160 new cases and 6,586 renewal processes.

The document said that last year, canceled or rejected applications for issuance or renewal 57 professional cards because the candidates had not attended specific training, did not have compulsory schooling and had a felony record.

also began 41 criminal cases for document forgery under the licensing procedures professions regulated and 67 administrative offense proceedings for professional title of renovation out of time.

December 31, 2014, there were 91 providers of private security services, 134 licenses holders, have been created over last year, three new companies ceased activity and seven others.

The report also highlights that private security activity in 2014 was marked by the consolidation of the new legal framework for the sector and led to a “lack of training offer in the last quarter of the year “due to” late adaptation “of training providers to new legal provisions.

” The combination of creating new specialties for the performance of functions in private security in the absence of entities created difficulties forming response to market needs and has been to call for transitory measures, so as not to block sector, as shown by the prediction of a process of equivalence based on professional experience, “the same document.

The private security Annual Report 2014 also says that the new pillars of private security training activity, although not fully implemented, “turn out to be more demanding and in conformity with appropriate professional qualifications “justifying” substantial reduction in the number of entities that intend to continue to pursue that activity “and the” exponential increase in emission processes or business card renewal instructed with training certificates obtained irregularly. “

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