Establishment of Security Institute
There is no profession that can grow or seek for national and
international recognition and relevance without a well packaged
institute to provide the needed human capital resources. The private
security has come of age after five decades of its existence in Nigeria
to have a functioning and efficient institute to drive its growth and
streamline its operations and entry qualifications. It is necessary to
establish a standard security institute for private security
practitioners for the training, re-training, certification and
re-certification of security operators and security guards to make the
sector more economically viable, competitive, and more relevant in the
global security market and national security discourse. In most
countries (USA, Europe, South Africa, Canada etc.) where security
privatization is in place, both the operators of private security
companies and security guards are required to attain certain level of
security training in an institute, after which they are awarded security
certificates authorizing them to practice private
investigation/detection or private guarding or both with a license. Most
especially training and certification is based on specialized area of
security provisioning to encourage diversification of knowledge and
professionalism required to operate competent and efficient private
security outfits that will assist in driving socio-economic development
and growth in the country. This should be the basis of private security
practice in Nigeria and not the other way round where every Dick and
Harry is profess to be a security professional without basic industrial
security certification and training.