Holistic Legal Framework for PSC Operations
This is necessary for the private security sector to flourish. Current
legal framework establishing PSC operations is loose and weak. There is
no single legislation or regulation regarding the basic professional
training of private security operators and private security guards. The
only likely resemblance of regulating document in this regard is that
which requires that at least two directors of private security companies
should be retired military and police officers or any of the law
enforcement agencies. There is no regulation in regard to private
security guard professional training requirement. It is on this basis
that different categories are found in the private security sector as
practitioners, sometimes many of them have no basic knowledge of what
industrial security is all about. The legislative approval for private
security companies to participate in private detection and investigation
and perhaps prosecution will boost the criminal justice system and
assist in reducing the volume of awaiting trials of criminal cases
across the country. The singular legislative approval of private
security participation in detection and prosecution in Nigeria may be
the needed impetus to drive the economy in terms of massive youth
employment and solution to the unemployment problem confronting youth
graduates.