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ISIO, CAPSI and SASA – representing more than 9.15 million security practitioners – form alliance

CAPSI (Central Association of Private Security Industry), ISIO (International Security Industry Organization) of India and SASA (Security Association of South Africa) have joined forces to curb the collateral damage of active mutating biological and tailing threats.

By Tony Botes, SASA National Administrator.

This follows on the receipt of health community protocols around infection testing (chemically and electronically), the social movement of people and hygiene, says Franz Verhufen, Chairman of SASA, adding that it is the private security industry that implements the protocols on the ground by investing in equipment, manages the flow and behaviour of social movement and ensures that people sanitise before entering sites.

Aside from this, he points out, the private security industry has to handle crime related to both the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant economic meltdown.

Private security industry personnel are frontliners, regularly having to deal with aggressive and violent incidents that lead to life-impacting and deadly outcomes, he says. And, while the medical fraternity plays a key role in terms of nursing infected people, using the appropriate protocols, security practitioners on the ground have no idea who is infectious, which presents a massive risk to them and the public at large.

The alliance is working on a goaldirected plan of action designed to drive pandemic health methodology world-wide by capacity building among specific stakeholders, says Verhufen, in the understanding that the entire world needs to be inoculated simultaneously and with the same potency of vaccine. This, accordingly, also dictates that the global security force – numbering in the millions – must work together and at the same time, whilst utilising the same security protocols in order to counter biological threats.

Says CAPSI Chairman Kunwar Vikram Singh: “This collaboration between CAPSI, ISIO and SASA to protect humanity from deadly viruses will prove a serious lifesaving initiative which governments and corporates must endorse and apply immediately. CAPSI has already discussed the dangers with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs and also signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Rashtriya Raksha University (National Security University) to begin biosecurity education.”

Mr Verhufen believes it is critical that the private security industry leads from the front, thereby protecting the national economy and the entire populations of their respective countries. “SASA and its members, who collectively employ more than 100,000 registered security officers, believes that the use of effective technology and biological threat security protocols will translate to a significant contribution in the battle against the pandemic.”

Juan Kirsten, ISIO Director General, says firmly that: “The private security industry, which is larger than any navy, military unit, or policing agency, is collectively using the same protocols, and therefore must be utilised to its full potential by being goal-directed and working in concert because it is already doing the job on the ground.’’

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