New Rules Are Coming for Estates, Complexes and Office Parks That Collect Visitor Data
If you have ever handed over your driver’s licence at a boom gate, signed a visitor register that the next person in the queue could read, or had your fingerprints scanned just to enter an office park, you have experienced the practices that South Africa’s Information Regulator is now moving to regulate.
Uniform Requirements for Security Service Providers
Every Security Service provider is enjoined to provide security officers with an adequate and distinctive uniform, save in so far as close protection is concerned and must ensure that such uniform is worn by security officers when rendering a security service.
Dealing with NBCPSS Compliance Orders and Compliants
Sense Business have been serving the Private Security Sector and have always maintained the philosophy that an informed client will be in a better position to mitigate its risks with the Private Security Compliance Framework.
Private Security Compliance Framework
These provisions create a proverbial cobweb of compliance issues affecting the very core of the operations of any Security Service provider, including minimum wages, the formal requirements and appearance of documentation, the appearance of uniforms, and even the corporate structure of a security business.
Private Security
The Private Security Industry is one of the most pervasively regulated industries in South Africa. This sector is not only expected to subject itself to everyday governance and compliance requirements but is also subjected to the uncompromising, sometimes draconic, compliance framework of the Private Security Industry Regulation Authority and the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector (NBCPSS).
The Function of the NBCPSS within the Private Security SectorÂ
Baartman & du Plessis Attorneys have been rendering specialised legal and compliance services to the Private Security Industry since 1997 and the subject of the compliance framework within this sector will be incomplete without addressing the role and responsibility of the NBCPSS.
Identity Theft in the Security Sector: An immediate threat to be acted on
In this article we will briefly unpack how identity theft is impacting the Security Sector – and what a massive risk that poses. While Security Sector providers are employing due diligence to verify the identities of recruits, the official bodies of this industry are letting them down.
Armed Reaction, Legal Conundrums and the Exclusion of New Entrants
There is a serious and obvious flaw in the legislation around fire arm registration for security service providers, with contradicting laws leading to suspect practices from the authorities. This article offers a legal insight into the conundrum posed for the security sector when it comes to legislation around fire arms.
