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SASA UPDATE
Update from SASA It has been another month that was, to say the least, interesting and challenging! From the desk of Tony Botes, SASA National Administrator.
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here are a number of matters currently being handled at high level by the SASA National Executive Committee, including:
PSIRA fees and regulations The PSIRA (Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority) annual fees, as published recently, are – in our opinion – excessive and unacceptable, and we have been interacting with PSIRA in writing and meetings, at management level, for them to reevaluate the gazetted fee structures, which also includes a number of changes to their regulations. We are guardedly hopeful of a successful outcome and will keep our members and
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the readers of Security Focus Africa informed of developments in this regard. PSIRA proposed new training standards The Authority has circulated long overdue training standards, which will be a great improvement on the Grades E to A levels, which have been in existence since the early 1990’s. This could, however, if published as proposed by them, result in extreme logistical, practical and financial challenges to both security service providers and security officers, at all levels. Again, we will continue to interact with them for clarity and with practical proposals.
Firearms legislation The SAPS (South African Police Service) has published the draft Firearms Control Bill, which – if implemented and gazetted in its current form – will have an extreme effect on the entire firearm population and, even more so, on the private security industry. SASA will be submitting our comments, both objections and proposed amendments, very shortly and trust that sanity will prevail in the final gazette. Covid-19 While the private security industry, as a whole, has played a massive and valuable role in assisting to curb the spread of the
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