The Security Industry Authority (SIA) have recently published a summary of the analysis of responses to its consultation on a proposed Code of Conduct. The proposal is that the code would set out the behaviour that is expected of licence holders and applicants.
The consultation was held between 09 January and 23 February 2020 and sought the views of licence holders and other interested parties on the content of the draft as well as the potential impacts of introducing it.
The SIA received 3,853 responses to the online consultation, with over 4,200 comments made in response to the free text questions. A vast majority of responses (98%) were made by existing SIA licence holders.
The responses provided a wide range of views and comments about the draft Code of Conduct and the form it might take if introduced.
The publication of the analysis has taken the SIA longer than it would have liked due to the volume of responses and the impact resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 situation.
The SIA will now consider in more detail whether a Code of Conduct is a proportionate regulatory approach, and what impact it might have on the private security industry. It will also consider how, if introduced, it would work in practice. Ongoing dialogue with the industry will be critical to the thinking on these issues and the SIA will provide an update on its progress in due course.
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