1. Reasons for Amendment and Major Provisions
As the Partial Amendment to the Security Business Act was promulgated on November 15, 2022, which lowered the security personnel requirement for the facility security business from 20 guards or more to 10 guards or more among the permit requirements in order to reflect the reality of the security industry, such as the introduction of advanced security equipment due to the development of science and technology and alleviate the burden of start-up costs for small-scale entrepreneurs, it is necessary to revise the relevant Enforcement Decree of the Security Services industry Act.
A security business entity must appoint and assign up to 200 security guards and assign one security instructor for each area under the jurisdiction of a City/Do police agency under the current statutes. Also, if there are fewer than 30 security guards assigned to a City/Do police agency adjacent to the jurisdiction of a City/Do police agency, there may not be a separate security instructor appointed and assigned. In spite of the exceptions, a security instructor may not be separately appointed and assigned, security business entities who placed a small number of security guards in the jurisdiction of the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province police agency, which is the only City/Do police agency in the country where there is no adjacent City/Do police agency with borders, are not subject to the exceptions to the appointment and placement of security instructors. So, there are opinions that fairness between security business entities in the jurisdiction of the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province police agency and those that have placed security guards in jurisdictions of other City/Do police agencies with adjacent City/Do police agencies should be considered as well as that the economic burden of having to separately appoint a security instructor.
In addition, under the current statutes, unlike private security educational institutions that should have personnel and facilities in order to professionally conduct training for new security guards and be designated by a police agency through regular examinations, the association of security business conducts new training for general security officers on a permanent basis without regular examinations after obtaining permission for establishment. So, it is pointed out that improvement is necessary to ensure equity and fairness in new security guard training.
Therefore, this amendment aims to reduce the economic burden of security business entities by lowering the security personnel requirement for facility security services and reorganizing the standards for appointing and distributing security instructors in accordance with the partially amended Security Services Industry Act and improving the designation qualifications so that all private security training institutions, including associations of security business, shall be designated by policy agencies after receiving examinations on personnel and facilities necessary for training new security guards.
