CAPSI, ISIO and SASA aim to curb collateral damage biological threat and tailing threats

CAPSI [Central Association of Private Security Industry], ISIO [International Security Industry Organization] and SASA [Security Association of South Africa] are on mission to curb the collateral damage of the active mutating biological threat and tailing threats.

The health community has sent the protocols for infection testing (chemically and electronically), the social movement of people and hygiene. It is in-fact the private security industry that implements the protocols on the ground by investing in the equipment, manages the flow and behaviour of social movement besides ensuring that people sanitize before entering sites.

However, the private security industry does much more, because there is crime related to the pandemic and the economic meltdown that is resulting from such, definitely causing more havoc to the mix.

The private security industry, being frontliners, do experience aggressive and violent incidents that leads to life impacting and deadly outcomes. The medical fraternity do nurse infected people and therefore use appropriate protocols, but the security practitioners on the ground have no idea who is infectious, and a massive risk to the public at large.

The alliance is working together on a goal directed plan of action that is designed, by capacity building specific stake holders that will drive the methodology world-wide. In the understanding that the entire world needs to be inoculated at the same time, with the same potency of vaccine, dictates that the entire security force that numbers in the millions must work together at the same time, using the same security protocols for biological threat security.

Based on intensive research and application, the respective security industries will be promoting security protocols for biological threat security. These protocols are geared towards procedure of using the technology, equipment besides layering the workforce on the ground by skillsets.

The Chairman of CAPSI, Mr Kunwar Vikram Singh states “ This collaboration between CAPSI, ISIO and SASA to protect humanity from biological weapons in the form of deadly viruses will prove a most serious life saving initiative which governments and corporate must endorse and apply immediately. CAPSI has already discussed this dangerous aspect with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs and also signed a MoU with Rashtriya Raksha University (National Security University), to commence Bio Security education. This trustworthy HIM tool with security protocols for biological threat security is required to secure and limit the level of collateral damage’’.

The Chairman of SASA, Mr Franz Verhufen, states that it is of critical importance that the private security industry “leads from the front”, thereby protecting the national economy and the entire populations of their respective countries, which can only succeed if they, as a whole, work together in the campaign to reinforce the national governments in their respective countries, to curb and eliminate this deadly threat.

SASA and its members, who collectively employ in excess of 100,000 registered security officers, believe that, with effective technology and using security protocols for biological threat security, they can definitely make a significant contribution in this battle against the pandemic.

Juan Kirsten, Director General of ISIO firmly says ‘’the Private Security Industry is larger than any navy, military unit, or policing agency, collectively using the same protocols, and therefore must be utilised to its full potential by being goal directed and working in concert because it is already doing the job on the ground.’’

The philosophy and methodology is outlined in the tools that can be found on https://www.human-investigation-management.com/cbts-certified-for-biological-threat-security which is endorsed by CAPSI, ISIO and SASA.

What the security industry does now will be judged by the CBRN professionals, the health community and the public

The CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear warfare) sector are mostly made up of academics and professional practitioners that research and consider the above- mentioned threats.
For nature disasters, the governmental related body has their academics and manpower that takes full responsibility for servicing security, medical, the feeding and housing the population because they are paid for it through taxes.

For Biological Threats, the governments for specific reason use the military and police function on a macro level will be involved in managing specific protocols on the ground. However, it is the private security industry which is way larger than the military and police in some countries that will play its part on the ground.

Actually, the two bodies that play an important role is the health community that set protocols (infection testing, social interactions and hygiene) for biological threats and it is the security industry that rolls the health protocols out besides manages the implementation on the ground.

However, the security industry does more. The security industry adds security protocols to the mix because there are issues relating to tools (technology and equipment) that are used, the behaviour of the people and the crime related to the threats, being the threat itself and the outcome of the threat being the economic meltdown.

It is virtually impossible for the military and police to manage the health protocols, investigate the amount of crime and type of new crime in this scenario besides managing the numbers of people involved.

The CBRN community comprehend the fact that there are millions of private security practitioners on the ground that are actually doing the job of taking temperatures, managing the flow of people and ensuring hygiene criteria are met. Therefore, they realize that it is the private security industry (psi) is the largest force on the ground to limit the collateral damage, as it is, the psi that also has the equipment and skilled manpower to do such.

This current mutating biological threat has taught some lessons to some that bothered to be present and relevant, and the flip side, is that some in the security industry that do not realize that they are actually doing biological threat security.

Now based on the recent experiences, the private security industry has researched the issues related to this pandemic and thoroughly investigated specifics taking into consideration various issues.

When 911 happened, the security exhibitions grew huge in size because of two reasons. Firstly, at the same time the IP (Internet Protocol) technology began to display their wares and all technologies ran onto the market with their solutions, be it biometrics, IP access control and IP driven CCTV, etc., which was mostly geared towards counter terror.

When COVID-19 began, once again the manufacturers ran onto the market with thermal imaging technologies which some did not comply with the department of the health criteria. Yes, the health community have got protocols relating to taking the temperature of people and have also explored the criteria for using thermal imaging. Unfortunately, there are brands that do not confirm to the standards out of ignorance to the factual criteria and also there are some that provide misinformation about their capabilities.

But - it is the security industry that went through this scenario before during 911 which brought about laboratories to test brand performance of emerging technologies and equipment. This means that the protocols for managing a biological threat and using technology or equipment must confirm to the health department besides labs that check brand performance.

The health community has set protocols for social distancing but has not realized that the population are not sheep. The security industry knows that the behaviour of people can be extremely aggressive and volatile. Having said such there are security practitioners that themselves have not acknowledged that their team on the ground are on ground zero where the staff are more at risk than medical teams such as nurses or doctors.

In a hospital the medical teams know who is sick and who is not. They then have protocols to dress according to the threat and apply the 'dress-code' using specific protocols. They have been trained in such. On the ground, the security practitioners have no idea of who is sick and who is not sick. They handle people that are shouting and perhaps pushing others around without out any form of medical grade protection or the full complement of protection gear that is used by ICU wards.

The protocols for the managing people in security is by layering specific staff with certain character traits or skillsets to ensure a safe environment for the public and themselves. Security companies that are not using protocols place their client's customers at risk besides their own staff. When customers avoid going to a site, then the client loses revenue. This is not about loss prevention but more so profit protection. Furthermore, new crime and increased numbers of criminals erodes the profits of a site, besides impacting once again the profits of a site.

There is also crime related to the threat that causes issues, such as, theft of oxygen bottles or the reselling of oxygen using old bottles (organized crime, gang crime or entrepreneurial street venders) that could contain black fungus in the tubes or valves that is responsible for a 50 percent mortality rate. Never-the-less the lack of oxygen simply causes ciaos which could increase infection rates because of people fighting over oxygen or mass 'hysterical' riots when people fear that they will not obtain oxygen. The private security industry is involved in all aspects as one can fathom from the above, and the list of high-risk targets and motivations that drive issues are far too numbersome to list in this article.

The CBRN teams may suggest in the future certain steps to take but at the end of the day - it will be the private security industry that will roll it out and manage it on the ground.

If the Security Industry does not stand together and use the same protocols that fit standards and compliance criteria - then it will not be able to limit the level of collateral damage as it should with a mutating biological threat.

When the security industry does take action then it will earn the trust and respect from the CBRN community, the Health Community and the Public at Large.

ISIO |International Security Industry Organization & CAPSI (Central Association of Private Security Industry) representing +7 million practitioners) call on all stakeholders to participate alongside on mission.