Private Security Industry In South Africa
The private security industry in South Africa is an industry providing guarding, monitoring, armed reaction, escorting, investigating and other security-related services to private individuals and companies in the country. South Africa's private security industry is one of the largest in the world. This is attributed by some to the country's former high levels of crime to a lack of public funds from Parliament towards the South African Police Service (SAPS) or to an increasing trend in many countries towards government outsourcing of certain security functions .
However, due to the success of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, watched by over a billion international television viewers, plus coverage in other worldwide media, public confidence levels in both the SAPS and in private security companies have improved slightly.
Because of a widespread lack of compliance with registration requirements, it is difficult to determine the number of actual players in the sector, however, the PSIRA (Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority) comments that of the approximate 1,9 million people actually registered, only 421,534 are 'active' i.e. serving in the industry. (As of May 2012).
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