Drastic scarcity of private security personnel

Hathoon Sheriffdeen

SHORTAGE: Hundred and thousands are employed as security professional in various commercial and industrial institutions and individual residents within the country. Sri Lanka needs another 25,000 professionals in this segment of industry, Senior Vice President, Industrial Securities Foundation Sri Lanka incorporation, Ajith Jayasekara said.

Last year the 750 security personnel passed out as qualified security professionals including 15 security managers. This segment of the industry has developed vastly within a short period of time, Jayasekera said.

These professionals are trained on various skills such as basic fire fighting, bomb threat awareness, first-aid, investigations, supervisory development, security of documentations and public relation. These are the modules of a security professionals’ training programs arranged by the Industrial Securities Foundation, Jayasekera said.

He said that the security companies and security equipment buyers and sellers in the foundation are controlled by various labour rules and bound for wages, limitations as well.

Every year we conduct twenty seven training programmes to corporate bodies and individual students who are in the trade and who wants to work as security for various work places, Jayasekera said.