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Sikhulekelani Moyo, [email protected]
THE coming of the Institute of Chartered Loss Control and Private Security Management (ICLPSM) will enhance security and stability in the country, which are crucial elements for economic development and promoting investor confidence.
ICLPSM interim president Rtd Col Dr Joshua Murire said this in an interview yesterday, on the sidelines of the institute’s sensitisation workshop in Bulawayo.
ICLPSM came after the Chartered Institute of Loss Control and Private Security Management Act Chapter 27:23 was enacted by Parliament and ascended into Law by President Mnangagwa in August last year.
The law confers professional status to the ICLPSM and its members and it also authenticates the resilience, uncompromised integrity, and excellence that has always characterised its founding pillar.
Dr Murire said ICLPSM is an institutional body that ensures that everything is done according to standard, with all the private security practitioners supposed to comply with set guidelines.
He said that will strengthen the security and loss control systems within organisations with the institute going to regulate the conduct of practitioners.
“By regulating, we are ensuring that we are integrated into the National Development Strategy, we cannot have a development strategy that operates without security.
“Everything that we do is supposed to be secure, in terms of national assets, and systems, we want to make sure that all aspects of national development are secured,” said Dr Murire.
We want to make sure that the practitioners are clean in terms of corruption in the first place and everything that we do in terms of the national development focus has got security systems in place to safeguard our sovereignty.”
Dr Murire said the institute is making practitioners aware that the security sector is now technology-driven and that all new technologies require security measures to be in place.
He said the institute has produced the regulations, which will regulate the practitioners in terms of disciplinary mechanism and they are waiting for the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion to gazette them as a Statutory Instrument.
ICLPSM public relations committee chairperson Mr Tafadzwa Kumani said the institute will help to foster accountability, transparency, and good governance in the country as they will be guided by regulations and codes of conduct.
“Accountability and transparency form the key tenants of these particular standards because all that is done through our members are supposed to be verified and vetted by external stakeholders,” he said.
ICLPSM becomes the centre of research and provision of solutions to complex loss control and security management challenges confronting business and social organisations.
Alive to modern approaches to professional work, the institute will deliver a robust continuing professional development programme to its members through its wide and mutual stakeholder support, as well as a friendly international collaborative network of professional associations.
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