The State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command, Dr Michael Adaralewa, on Tuesday, urged the Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria (ALPSPN), Oyo State chapter to take human capacity development as a top priority for their organizations, so that their members can effectively carry out their duties.
Adaralewa, while declaring a one-day capacity building programme open for the Directors and Managers of the Private Guard Companies in Oyo State at NSCDC hall, Agodi, Ibadan, noted that the private security industry is a very important aspect of the national security architecture of this country.
He said “It is very essential that we must continue to build the capacity of the practitioners, including the management cadre to strengthen the industry’s performance capability.
“One of the ways to build our capacity in providing better security services for protection of life and property is to make training and re-training a topmost priority.”
“The dynamics of security challenges the world over and the peculiarity of the Nigeria security threat experience have necessitated an overarching need for continuous engagement of security stakeholders to evaluate the existing approach to national security.
This is intending to design new mechanisms to mitigate threats.
“Consequently, such new information needs to be factored into training manuals and curricula for capacity-building programmes.
Furthermore, the Chairman, of ALPSPN, Oyo State chapter, Mr Seyi Alaba, in his address said the training which is themed as: ‘Safety and security management for private security practitioners.’ is timely as the country is facing security challenges in some parts of Nigeria and the world at large.
“One of the challenges that we are facing in the country today is mostly security and we as a private sector, the Civil Defence are the monitoring body and coming together to organise the workshop is something that we placed a high premium on because we need to renew our knowledge on how to deal with security challenges.
“The private guard companies, we are more at the grassroots, we are everywhere, the numbers of the personnel that we have across the country cannot be equated with the state security forces, so we spread more than state security forces, so therefore, we need training and retraining.
“We have been doing that for our operatives, we meet with the Civil Defence, we had a round table discussion and we felt that it is necessary for we the Directors, the people at the helms of affairs to also renew their knowledge on how to deal with the security challenges in the country and that is why this programme is very important to us and we have gained more knowledge from our facilitators in order discharged our duties as expected of us.”
