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.