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September 3rd, 2011 
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Four security guards have been charged over the incident at the Ivy.
The brutal beating of a young man in the basement of a top Sydney nightspot, allegedly by several of the club’s bouncers, has thrown a spotlight on the private security industry.
In the wake of the incident at the Ivy, the New South Wales Government has proposed changes to the way the industry is regulated.
The Government intends to move away from a model of co-regulation, placing regulation solely in the hands of police.
The security industry says what is needed is a national model with industry involvement.
Four security guards have been charged over the incident at the Ivy.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says he does not want to see guards taking the law into their own hands.
“The concern we have is where security officers turn vigilante, almost, and seem to take the law into their own hands,” he said.
“We’ve seen evidence of that recently, we’ve already talked about that today in terms of the matters before the court. We don’t want to see that continue.”
Police Minister Mike Gallacher says it is a national issue.
“There are serious concerns, right around the nation, of the infiltration of people with links to, shall we say, less than the sort of persons that you would expect to be involved in the industry,” he said.
“Some states are far worse than us.”
Changes proposed
Mr Gallacher has released details of proposed changes to the way the security industry is regulated.
The new model would see police responsible for regulating the industry, moving away from the current co-regulation system.
“It’s not about taking a stick to the security industry, it is about recognising there are weaknesses in the way in which it’s currently monitored,” he said.
The changes are based on a recommendation from 2009 by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which found evidence that some industry training organisations were corrupt.
Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the University of South Australia, recently carried out research into the regulation of the industry.
He says the current New South Wales model is a good one.
“I’ve got a feeling they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here,” he said.
“Five out of the eight jurisdictions just run an administrative unit, in the same way that they would supply a fishing licence or something else.
“[In Victoria] the police run the whole show and in Western Australia they’ve moved across more to a New South Wales model by putting an administrative unit within the police service itself.
“But New South Wales was quite unique in adding to that administrative unit within New South Wales police. They had a strong co-regulatory model with one of the key industry associations.”
He said police can do it well, but it may not be the best solution.
“The Western Australians have put quite a deal of thought into this and have embraced this model, matching the New South Wales model. It can work very well,” he said
“I just think having a co-regulatory model, where in fact in addition to having all the resources and communication with police, you’ve actually got some eyes and ears in the industry associations themselves, you’ve actually got someone on side who knows the industry far better than you do.
“A co-regulatory model with people who know what they’re talking about and who are not given to shifting with the political winds is the best model available.”
National approach
The Australian Security Industry Association represents around 85 per cent of the industry.
Its chief executive, Bryan de Caires, says the association is also opposed to the changes.
“There’s probably forty odd thousand licensed security personnel approximately across the state, I think there’s about 70 or 80 people in the licensing enforcement division. It’s going to be very difficult for them to get out to see everybody,” he said.
“So it comes down to resourcing and again if you want to change the behaviour and culture of an industry, it does have to come from within the industry.
“As much as you can regulate it, that will only go so far and it has to change from within.”
Mr de Caires is calling for a national approach.
“To make sure that there is a national training package, national competencies, it should be a national approach, not varied from state to state,” he said.
“Through the Mutual Recognition Act some people have sought to obviously get mutual recognition in states where the licensing requirements are a little less onerous and then through mutual recognition come back into the states where it is a bit more onerous. So some people have sought to work around the system.”
The security industry has until later this month to respond to the proposed changes.
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