The National Open College Network (NOCN) has granted a five-year accreditation to the SITO-developed ‘Minimum Knowledge Entry Training Course for Door Supervisors’.
The three-day course exceeds the minimum requirements laid down in British Standard BS 7960 for training in the sector, and the general expectation is that this endorsement will increase the level of training for door staff.

Ramping up training is particularly important from a local authority perspective, where standards have to be seen to dovetail neatly with Licensing Committee requirements for door supervisor registration schemes.

A number of authorities have already signed up for the SITO course, the most recent addition being the Licensing Committee at Birmingham City Council.

In welcoming the NOCN accreditation, Noel Sargent – SITO’s development manager – told Security Management Today: “The Birmingham Licensing Committee’s acceptance of the scheme was dependent on NOCN accreditation. We’re delighted to have achieved the maximum five-year approval” [which provides national accreditation for both the course and the final examinations].

Former PC Andy Walker – the prime mover behind the ‘Safer Doors’ project, and currently training director at Capes (UK) Security Services – added: “In view of the Private Security Industry Act 2001, it is indeed excellent news that SITO has been able to secure funding for future Basic Job Training courses.”

Door supervisors, of course, will be the first sector of the wider security industry to be licensed by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) when it begins the formal authentication process in 2003.

To this end, Walker added: “I’ve no doubt that the new NOCN funding system will play an important role in the future planning of door supervision courses under the SIA’s licensing requirements.”

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SMT