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Conference on security services

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: The Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI) will organise a conference on the October 13 and 14 in Bangalore. Over 200 users and providers of private security will take part in it.

CAPSI and the Association of Private Detectives and Investigators, which are bringing the conference to Karnataka, where the Private Securities Agencies Regulation Act of 2005 has not been implemented yet, are being supported by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Disaster Management Authority of India.

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will attend the conference.

V.V. Katti, president of CAPSI’s Bangalore Chapter, said the aim of the conference would be to understand the need for quality in private security through adequate training of guards as well as to point out the ways in which CAPSI could contribute to the State in times of emergency.

“We can also lend manpower for intelligence gathering,” says Mr. Katti. “In Karnataka, the private security industry has 50 lakh people,” he said and added that this called for a serious look at the way the industry was regulated, so that it provided quality services.

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