OIA-120087.pdf [pdf, 5.5 MB]
...Private Investigators Act 2010 (PSPPI Act) was passed to improve the occupational regulation of the private security industry. Under the PSPPI Act, organisations and individuals who want to provide security services must be licenced and certified. Licences and certificates are issued with class endorsements. Relevantly to the retail context, one of the classes is ‘property guard’, which we refer to in this briefing as ‘security guard’.7 Further information is set out in Appendix 1....