The
Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria is an
amalgamation of all licensed private security practitioners and companies registered
and carrying on business in Nigeria. This followed the formal inauguration of
the Board of the Association on 4th September 2014 and was the
culmination of years of toil from the advent of the first security companies in
Nigeria.
Prior to the
first indigenous Private security companies commencing operations in Nigeria,
the private security industry in Nigeria was dominated by foreign security
companies and associations such as ASIS etc. In a bid to encourage
indigenization in this sector therefore, indigenous companies sprang up in
different parts of the country to provide credible competition to their foreign
counterparts and on December 15, 1986 the Private Guards Companies Act was
passed into law.
The passage
of this Act produced a surge in the number of licensed private security
companies doing business in Nigeria and these companies; all across the country
in different ways, felt the need to have a common platform through which their
common interests could be properly projected. Following a National Stakeholders Meeting at the Nigeria
Security And Civil Defence Corps Headquarters; (the regulatory body of the
ALPSPN) in 2009, the then Commandant
–General of the NSCDC Dr. Ade Abolurin constituted an interim National Executive
Committee that went on to steer the affairs of the nascent association up to
its inauguration on 4th September 2014.
Today, the
ALPSPN boasts of over 1,000 members across the nation conducting business in
various sectors of the private security industry.
