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.