BAGUIO CITY -- A total of 80 security agencies failed to renew their licenses for various reasons from year 2006-2010 records from the Supervisory Office for Security Investigation Agencies disclosed.
Some may either have voluntarily stopped operations, changed their business name or operating without license, the SOSIA said.
Task Group “Siyasat” of the city police is set to conduct an inventory of all existing private security agencies, company guard forces, government guard units and private detective agencies to update its records, identify security agencies operating without permit, with expired/unrenewed license to operate, with cease to operate order and account their firearms.
Records show there are 157 security agencies who have been issued CTO and 13 security agencies were cancelled.
This indicates some security agencies are operating without valid permit resulting in unfair competition, police said.
With this, the government is defrauded of revenues and may pose a threat to peace and order.
There are also the agencies that pay their guards below the minimum wage and are not paying their taxes to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, remittances to the Social Security System and other government obligations.
This Task Group, in coordination with Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operators and other concerned government agencies will conduct operation on all security agencies to validate and check documents, their firearms and security personnel.
This was created to conduct comprehensive and continuing record check and inventory of all security agencies city wide.
Task Group “Siyasat” shall conduct inventory of security agencies with unrenewed license to operate and determine their status as to whether it ceased operations, changed business name or operating without license to operate.
It shall also check and account firearms registered to security agencies and confiscate firearms without valid and updated documents.
The task force can also file administrative and criminal cases against security agencies violating Republic Act 5487, Presidential Decree 1866 as amended and other applicable laws.
“Siyasat” members urged clients of security companies to make sure that contracted PSAs, security personnel and firearms are properly documented, registered and updated.
For inquiries and other concerns, log on to SOSIA website at www.sosia.org.ph, FEO website at www.feo.org.ph, CSG website at www.pnpcsg.org.
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