Business News of Sunday, 4 September 2016Source: cameroon-tribune.cmPrivate security companies: zero tolerance for lawlessnessSecurity guardsProprietors of private security companies nationwide have been reminded that administrative tolerance of the state of disorder and lawlessness prevailing in the sector, will end in two weeks. The one-year grace period given security companies to comply with the September 16, 2015 presidential decree laying down modalities for the application of the September 10, 1997 law governing activities of private security companies, as amended by the December 23, 2014 law, expires on September 15, 2016. Private security companies were expected to comply with the new legal framework by obtaining a license from the Head of State and authorisation to operate from the Minister of Territorial Administration. During a sensitization workshop on August 31, 2016, in Yaounde for Senior Divisional Officers and private security company proprietors from the Centre, South and East Regions, it was revealed that only nine private security companies had licences to operate. Four members of the Inter-ministerial Adhoc Committee for Studying Licensing Applications and Monitoring Private Security Companies lectured participants on innovations contained in the new legal instruments as well as penal and administrative sanctions for recalcitrant companies.

Source: CameroonWeb September 04, 2016 16:16 UTC