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"We have always made it clear that the training required to obtain a licence is not necessarily all that's needed to carry out every security operative's role... The SIA has worked closely with industry to ensure that its specifications reflect a meaningful level of achievement, without setting the bar so high that it becomes an unjustified intervention in business or prohibitively expensive."
Andy Drane, SIA Deputy Chief Executive |
We are aware of some confusion and concerns regarding the training and qualifications currently required to gain an SIA licence. We have heard:
- concerns that the training needed to obtain a licence isn't sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the job at hand;
- claims that widespread abuse of the system is occurring (leading to qualifications being fraudulently obtained);
- reports that people with SIA-specified qualifications cannot read, write in or speak English and concerns about how such people obtained their qualifications.
In an article written for the July 2007 edition of Security Management Today, Andy Drane sets the record straight in regards to SIA-approved training.
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