{"id":17635,"date":"2022-04-11T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/private-security-guards-unable-to-stand-up-to-kidnappers-o-pais-report"},"modified":"2022-04-11T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:49:12","slug":"private-security-guards-unable-to-stand-up-to-kidnappers-o-pais-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/private-security-guards-unable-to-stand-up-to-kidnappers-o-pais-report","title":{"rendered":"Private security guards unable to stand up to kidnappers \u2013 O Pa\u00eds report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Private security workers admit they are unprepared to counter attempted abductions, adding that their weapons sometimes do not even work. The companies concerned, however, deny some of these problems exist.<\/p>\n

Security camera footage depicting a kidnapping in central Maputo in February of this year shows the kidnappers entering an establishment disguised as customers and snatching their victim.<\/p>\n

The establishment had a security guard, but he only appears at the end of the incident, apparently scared and fleeing. He later acknowledged to STV that he had no ability to respond. \u201cIt all seemed to be arranged. Everyone had weapons, and I didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What, then, are the security guards we see every day, seemingly protecting establishments and institutions, both public and private, actually do?<\/p>\n

We put the question to the Union of Workers of Security Companies. The acknowledged the complexity of the situation. \u201cCustomers often fall into error; I would venture to say that, in some companies, those weapons don\u2019t work,\u201d union secretary Boaventura Sibinde said.<\/p>\n

Sibinde goes further, revealing that security companies lack quality. Compounding the problem is the fact that many security guards are unarmed, and that \u201ceven with a weapon, the security guard is useless\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even more serious is that the security guards responsible for protecting establishments themselves recognise that they are ill-prepared to respond to kidnappings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we look at it, many security guards have no training; security companies recruit people without following legal procedures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Security workers told our reporter that they put up with minimal working conditions. \u201cFor example, shooters don\u2019t have a contract, let alone life insurance. What motivation is there to work?\u201d one security guard asked.<\/p>\n

How can security guards react in face of this incapacity?<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to alert my company\u2019s intervention unit to come to the place, and if they don\u2019t arrive in time, I have to surrender,\u201d one security guard explained.<\/p>\n

Companies in the security sector association say that most of the weaknesses outlined are found in firms not affiliated to the association.<\/p>\n

According to decree 9\/2007 of 30 April, the Ministry of the Interior has the obligation to create a professional training centre for security guards.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral security companies have emerged recently which do not comply with the procedures,\u201d acknowledged the representative of the Association of Private Security Companies, Odair Bila.<\/p>\n

Bila said that he was not aware of the existence of security companies whose workers had weapons that did not work.<\/p>\n

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