Mexico. A public request to Congress was issued by the National Private Security Council (CNSP) with the purpose of issuing the General Law on Private Security, which allows the operation of private companies with irregularities and with connections to organized crime.
This was stated by Raúl Sapién Santos, President of the CNSP, who explained that "today companies must be 100% identifiable and regularized, comply with both federal and state permits to know who is being provided with this type of services, who is driving armored vehicles, who is transferring values; to avoid that porosity where organized crime can access private security services."
The executive added that regularizing this type of services would reduce the impact that organized crime can generate on the sector and society, in addition to the fact that this does not infringe privacy and the right to property, since there are specialized laws, for example, regarding the handling of transfer of securities issued even by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) itself. where they are required to report vulnerable activities.
"Let's give an example, a notary does not violate privacy in a purchase-sale, but is obliged to report precisely those operations, because it is considered a vulnerable sector. In the same way it happens with the transfer of values and the commercialization of armored vehicles, "he explained.
Sapién Santos stressed that the General Law of Private Security would allow companies in the sector to offer not only higher quality services, but better conditions for the personnel who work in them.
He explained that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this law was delayed in the agenda of legislators, but he trusted that from next September its analysis could be resumed and if possible a vote would be taken for its application, in favor of the creation of a legal and legal framework for the operation of private security companies.
The CNSP was a precursor to the Federal Private Security Law, which was issued in July 2006, to offer legal certainty to the sector; however, this law has now been exceeded (it is a Federal Legislation, 32 state laws and some municipalities that legislate in a way); therefore, the CNSP, in coordination with various companies and organizations in the sector, has given timely follow-up to the draft general law on Private Security, since more than 56% of private security companies in the country are not regulated.
The National Council of Private Security (CNSP) is an association founded in 1996, has 27 years of being the most important body of representation, training and consultation of the sector, with about 180 members.
