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| Friday, 25 June 2004 |
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by Asanga Warnakulasuriya Deputy Minister of Public Security, Law and Order Ratnasiri Wickremanayake yesterday appointed a 16 member committee comprising officials from both Government and private institutions to review the dress code of private security personnel. The committee was appointed by the Minister following criticism against private security firms that uniforms provided to their staff had violated guidelines laid down in the Private Security Firms Regulation Act, No. 45 of 1998. The Minister told a conference at the Ministry that the committee will look into various aspects of changing the dress code taking into account the financial difficulties faced by the organisations and the resemblance of the uniform to Armed forces, adopted by many institutions. The committee is expected to finalise its report within three weeks and hand it over to the Minister. When several key security firms pointed out that the regulations to the dress code did not exist at the time of the establishment of their firms, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Public Security, Law and Order, Malini Peiries said the regulations in the form of guidelines were issued to every firm from 1985 until it was passed as an Act. A separate three member committee was appointed to review the weapons issue following complaints to the Minister by over 250 representatives of security firms that the shot gun used was inadequate to stop criminals who had graduated to more sophisticated weapons such as repeaters and T56 rifles. |
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