Promoting transparency in the security industry

MQC chief executive James Calleja led a Maltese delegation which participated in the final partners meeting of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project 'Empowerment of transparency in vocational framework of security employees' (ETSE). The meeting was held recently in Vilnius, Lithuania. The two-year project focused on promoting transparency of qualifications and the quality of services offered in the private security sector.

During the meeting, there was an explanation of the updated 'Competency Assessment Model' which has been uploaded on the project website www.private-security.org. The model will be pilot-tested in security companies in all Lithuania, Germany and Malta. The possibility of a new project proposal to continue work on the products developed in ETSE was also brought up during the meeting.

Accompanying Dr Calleja to the meeting was Carmen Dalli and Beatrice Mizzi from the MQC, while Patrick Cole and Joseph Psaila attended as representatives of the private industry sector, having extensive experience in the field of training and employment of security employees.

The meeting was hosted by the project co-ordinator Apsaugos Komanda Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania. Besides MQC, the other project partners were the Lithuanian association 'Apsaugos versio grupe', the Lithuanian Labour Market Training Authority and Knowledge Transfer Institute, and two German firms, VS Security Triebel, Schwarzenberg, and ASCOTA-IT GmbH from Chemnitz.