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Edition : November, 2014 VOLUME 34 e-SECURITY POST

KUNWAR VIKRAM SINGH ELECTED 2 nd VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLD

ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES

Kunwar Vikram Singh Chairman of Zealand. Now Kunwar Vikram APDI was unanimously elected as Singh is in the line to become 2nd Vice President of the World Global President of WAD in year Association of detectives (WAD), the 2016 at its annual conference global apex body of Private scheduled to be held in New . Investigators and Security Professionals. Ms. Christine Vinson from USA was elected Chairman of WAD The elections took place at the 89 th while Mr. Chuck Mclaughlin from annual conference of WAD held on Boston was elected its President. 21 st October 2014 at the Sky City Convention Center, Auckland, New

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Mr. Matthias Willenbrink from National Occupational Standards Germany was elected as 1 st Vice for Private Investigators. These President and Mr. Mike LaCorte NOS were developed by Security from UK was elected 3 rd Vice Sector Skill Development Council President. of .

Mr. John Jones (USA) Mr. Dany Kunwar Vikram Singh Chairman of Torsen (New Zealand) Mr. Keith SSSDC also made presentation of Schafferius (Australia) Mr. R. P NOS at the Board Meeting of WAD. Singh (India), Mr. Sujeet Menezes Investigation professionals from (India) and Mr. Ajit Singh ( India) many countries appreciated the were elected to the Board of NOS developed by SSSDC and it Directors. Ms. Taralika Lahiri was was decided to constitute a appointed Area for Asia. committee under the chairman ship of Mr. Matthias Willenbrink to Mr. Raymond Pendleton, past understand its application for President of the WAD administered developing Global Occupational the Oath to all newly elected Standards. Kunwar Vikram Singh Officers and Directors. was nominated as member of the committee on NOS. To celebrate festival of Diwali, an impressive dance performance by Mr. Simarjeet Singh Arora, Col Indian dancers from New Zealand Vipin Bhatia and Capt Santosh was organized by Indian delegation. Sharma also attend the conference. The star performer of the evening was Mr. , Secretary General of APDI who enthralled everyone by his solo performance.

Delegates from more than 80 countries participated in this annual event in which various issues were discussed especially related to Criminal Gangs, Corporate Intelligence and International networking of Investigation Professionals.

Mr. V. M Pandit, President of APDI made an impressive presentation of

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SSSDC SIGNED MoU WITH MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR SKILLS (MANAS)

Mayaram- Secretary, Govt of India. The Minorities Affairs Ministry Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, Hon’ble launched the Maulana Azad Minister of Human Resource National Academy for Skills Development, Sh. Thaawar Chand (MANAS) to impart training to Gehlot, Hon’ble Minister of Social youths in light of the stress laid by Justice & Empowerment, Kunwar Prime Minister Mr. Vikram Singh, Chairman- CAPSI on skill development. It was was present as Guest of Honour. launched on 125th birth anniversary of first Education Minister Maulana celebrated by NMDFC on 11 th November 2014 at SCOPE Convention Centre, New Delhi.

Dr. , Hon’ble Minister of Minority Affairs presided over the function. Sh. , MoS - Minority Affairs, Sh. Arvind

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Kunwar Vikram Singh signed a The ministry will also write to other MoU with MANAS to train youth of ministries to associate MANAS with minority community in Private their programmes, especially those Security. related to skill development of minorities, and use the facilities at Mr. Mahesh Sharma, Secretary MANAS for achieving 15 per cent General- CAPSI, Maj. Gen. D.K allocation of funds, Dr. Heptulla Jamwal, CEO– SSSDC also said. attended the event. She further added, "These ministries would be requested to nominate their officers on the board of MANAS to facilitate implementation of their Skill Development Training Programme.

SHRI TAKES CHARGE AT MSME MINISTRY

The training programmes will ensure 100 per cent employment for trainees. Further, based on the outcome of the programmes, the ministry will expand the MANAS network to help it acquire all-India footprint. Dr. Heptulla said that the role of skilling will be to fuel economic development and ensure inclusive growth of the minorities in keeping with Modi's government Sh. Giriraj Singh assumed charge motto of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka as the Minister of State for Micro, Vikas'. Small & Medium Enterprises

(MSME) on 9 th November 2014. She said, "Establishment of MANAS is in line with transformational vision of the Welcoming him, Cabinet Minister Prime Minister and will further for MSME said he the cause of skilled India" was confident that the ministry will greatly benefit from the experience of Mr. Giriraj Singh who had been Page 4 of 9

youth were trained and given a Minister in the Bihar employment in Private Security Government. Agencies operating in various

states. Kunwar Vikram Singh, Chairman- CAPSI and Mr. Mahesh Sharma- Kunwar Vikram Singh informed Secretary General met Shri Giriraj him that SSSDC can set up Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State Centres of Excellence in Tribal Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Areas and organize specialized Enterprise to congratulate him on training to work in mining & assuming his office. Transport Security. Tribal youth can also be trained as Executive Sh. , MINISTER OF Protection. TRIBAL AFFAIRS TO ATTEND PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEEDS EFFECTIVE REGULATION – Sh.

Kunwar Vikram Singh, Chairman- CAPSI and Mr. Mahesh Sharma- Secretary General met Sh. Jual Oram, Minister of Tribal Affairs on 10 th November 2014 and invited him to attend 9 th Security Skills & Leadership Summit. He was given Minister of State for Home Affairs, presentation on the role of CAPSI & Sh. Kiren Rijiju while speaking at SSSDC in imparting training in the Conclave, said: "There is a Security Skills to boys and girls need to regulate the sector more from tribal areas of Jharkhand, effectively and provide a Chattisgarh, Orrisa and North- professional touch to it. Security Eastern States. He was happy to of a country and its people know more than 30,000 tribal cannot be left unorganized and it Page 5 of 9

must be carried out in a license for a year was taken by the disciplined manner." Home department due to a minor Inviting precise recommendations clerical mistake while drafting from the industry, Sh. Rijiju said PSARA State Rules 2010 in which the PSAR Act, passed in 2005 vowel “a” was wrongly typed in needed to be implemented English version before word “year” stringently as the industry has i.e. a year instead of five years. grown at a fast pace and as a There after licenses were neither result, the act has been unable to extended nor renewed rendering provide the requisite support . more than 100 agencies of the The minister also said: "I would state license less for last 2 years. take up the issues on priority as private security not only helps in CAPSI Jharkhand Chapter securing people but also provides consistently raised the voice employment and is a great against this anomaly but no action revenue generator." was taken. Finally, chapter decided to move to court and for which He added that he was aware about several information regarding fee, the issues related to wages of security personnel and the plea of validity period of license, etc. were certifying them as skilled labour sought by us through RTI last and was working on resolving these month. The department had no issues. He mentioned "The private answer to the RTI enquiry about sector has so far played a vital role lapse on their part and finally it in the private security sector and was decided to grant fresh license the government will make all efforts for a period of five years against the to complement their efforts." same fee already deposited by various agencies. JHARKHAND GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO GRANT LICENCE The decision was to be ratified by TO PSA FOR 5 YEARS AGAINST the Cabinet which was scheduled SAME FEE to be placed on last Tuesday, but in the mean time election was Govt. of Jharkhand had granted announced in the state and code of PSARA License to all security conduct imposed. This was the agencies for one year in the year victory of our consistent effort to 2011-12 which already expired amend the provision of model long before. The security agencies Jharkhand Private Security had deposited a fee for Rs. 25000/- Agencies Rules 2010. for whole of state which is applicable for 5 years as per the law. The decision of granting Page 6 of 9

PRESIDENT OF INDIA can create mechanisms for income INAUGRATES ASSOCHAM opportunities and capacity building SUMMIT ON LIVELIHOOD under CSR initiatives mandated by SECURITY the Companies Act of 2013. He expressed the hope that the Summit would discuss issues threadbare and make recommendations in the right perspective. CAPSI supported the initiative taken by ASSOCHAM.

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a Summit on ‘Livelihood Security: Realizing the vision for 1.3 billion Indians organized by ASSOCHAM at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on 3 rd November 2014. ALERT COMMANDOS NOW Speaking on the occasion, the EXTENDING SERVICES TO President said that livelihood INDIAN COAST GUARD security is incomplete without the (ICG) provision of social security. To make a decisive change in the livelihood security of Indians, the challenges are many and time limited. But he was certain that with the combined efforts of all stakeholders – government, industry, non-governmental agencies and the community at large – we will be able to extend to our countrymen enormous livelihood prospects. The industry

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Alert Commandos is now giving services to Indian Coast Guard WE WELCOME CAPSI (ICG) east region and further NEW MEMBERS planning to extend services to Andaman Island as well. They believe in giving best training in improving Security Skills and Our heartiest congratulations to our new employment to unemployed youth. family members who have joined in the month ofALL October ABOARD!!! 2014

Indian Coast Guard is taking 1. Sios India Pvt. Ltd. - Delhi significant measures to increase 2. Creative & Fidelity Management surveillance and security along the Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.- coastline. Recently, three Karnataka indigenously- built interceptor 3. Rajputana Security Services- Delhi vessels were inducted into Indian Coast Guard to enhance safety of 4. Lal Dyal Securities - Punjab the coast along Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. "The strength of the team is each individual member; the strength of each member is the team.”

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9th Annual Conference

12 th & 13 th December 2014

PHD House, New Delhi

We would like to extend warm invitation to all our members to attend 9 th Annual Conference of CAPSI & APDI. This event will be held at PHD House, New Delhi on 12 th & 13 th December 2014. This annual conference provides our valuable members with excellent professional learning opportunities and networkin g with some of the Senior Security Professionals and Investigators. This Grand Re Union will usher a phase of new business opportunities to prosper and conduct our business in most desirable environment .

To register yourself click on the links given below and support this great movement.

[email protected] ; [email protected]

Contact: 9871103074; 011- 40820070, 71

Website: www.capsi.in ; www.apdi.in

(You can also download the form from the website)

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