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The Irish equivalent of the SIA, the Private Security Authority, reports it has reached its target of 20,000 individual licence applications.
The Tipperary-based PSA reports that processing of each application has proven an onerous and time consuming task as a large number of the applications received were incomplete – almost 70 per cent.
According to the PSA, a majority of applications have included incomplete Garda vetting forms, while the training requirements are also causing difficulties.
Like the British SIA, the PSA licences door staff and guards, but unlike the SIA the PSA also covers alarm installers. The PSA reports that one in three of its live enforcement cases is to do with alarms.
