2 x Investigator / Compliance Officer
Reference: 7146.031
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2007
Salary: £10 - £20
Position Type: Contract
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Scotland
Details:
Essential Skills/Experience:
• Good/recent Personal Notebook (PNB), written interview/statement taking skills
• The recruited individuals should be IT literate with access to their own computer/printer with MS Word / Excel / Powerpoint and the ability to open Adobe PDF files. Email and internet access.
• A car and ability to drive is essential
• In terms of personality, aggressive, confrontational enforcement will not be the order of the day as basically they will not have the powers they possess within the police and skills transfer with their SIA counterparts will be expected.
• Prepared to make regular trips to more remote parts of Northern Scotland such as Shetland, Stornaway, Inverness and Aberdeen
NB: They cannot have any personal / business links with security companies in Scotland
What will the individual be doing/ Day to day duties:
From 1 November 2007, the licensable sectors in Scotland are: Door Supervisor (in-house & contact), Security Guard (contractors), Cash & Valuables in Transit (contractors), Public Space Surveillance CCTV (contractors), Close Protection (contractors), Key Holders (contractors). The penalties for offences under the Private Security Industry Act 2001 are potentially severe - for the most serious offences, fines are unlimited and can carry a sentence of imprisonment of up to five years.
You will be tasked with researching, investigating and visiting security related organisations providing these services within Scotland to ensure compliance in line with the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (PSIA), ie. That they and their operatives are correctly licensed in line with the act. You not be concerned with chasing individual door supervisors, but rather the companies that provide security services of this nature, and are now systematically avoiding compliance.
For further details please email us at
info@policerecruit.co.uk
