Private Security Agencies Central Model Rules, 2020. guards to undergo training of 20 hours

Government has notified Private Security Agencies Central Model Rules 2020. Security guards to undergo training of 20 hours

Private Security Agencies Central Model Rules, 2020.

Government has notified Private Security Agencies Central Model Rules, 2020. 

The Key highlights of the Act are as under:

1. Every agency is required to make an application to the Controlling Authority (CA).

2. Electronic databases of crime and criminals to be used for verification of antecedents of the applicant.

3. The licensee to undergo a training for a minimum period of six working days.

4. The licensee is required to intimate to the Controlling Authority about any criminal charge framed against the persons forming the Agency or against a private security guard or supervisor.

5. The Security Agency shall satisfy itself about the character and antecedents of the person who is employed or engaged as a security guard or supervisor.

6. The security guard shall have to successfully undergo the training prescribed by the Controlling Authority

7. The detailed training syllabus shall be prescribed by the CA for the security guards in accordance with National Skill Qualification Framework. For entry level, the training shall be for a minimum period of hundred hours of classroom instruction and sixty hours of field training, spread over at least twenty working days. The ex-servicemen and former police personnel shall however be required to attend a condensed course only, of minimum forty hours of classroom instructions and sixteen hours of field training spread over at least seven working days.

8. Standard of physical fitness for security guards i.e. height, Eye Sight, running, hearing, strength, disease. etc. have been prescribed.

9. There shall be one supervisor to supervise the work of not more than fifteen private security guards

10. The agency shall issue Photo identity card to security guards/supervisors in prescribed form.

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