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COVER STORY

FEATURES

HAB INTERNATIONAL: Rapiscan® Systems launches ORION™ baggage and parcel screening suite of products

10 The drone revolution

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“My fear is that, sooner or later, an illegally operated drone will cause a catastrophic aviation accident. If that happens, it will most likely be at an airport and involve a plane either taking off or landing.” Those are the grim words of US aviation attorney Mark A. Dombroff, in his article “Could toy drones ground the commercial UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) sector?”

Rapiscan® Systems, a leading global supplier of security inspection technologies, recently announced the launch of its new, high-performance 12 Threats and trends around airport, road and rail ORION™ series product line. Three new security in 2019 checkpoint screening solutions, the 918CX, 920CX, and 922CX, are available In its 2019 City Mobility Index (DCMI), global services giant Deloitte says immediately with additional models that getting from A to B should be, at worst, a forgettable experience, planned for the future. not an existential threat. But with an ever-widening threat landscape that sees terrorism and cybercrime topping the risk list, security providers in the airport, road and rail sectors have their work cut out.

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REGULARS EDITOR’S COMMENT 4 The roadmap to SA’s new dawn.

ASSOCIATION NEWS 5 SASA and the new National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector.

NEWS 8 News snippets from around the world.

AIRPORT, RAIL AND ROAD SECURITY 15 Africa must invest in the new ‘high seas’ treaty 16 ACI World publishes new handbook for airports in combating human trafficking

MEMOIRS 17 An alarming affair: Memoirs of alarm industry veteran Willy de Jong

INDUSTRY OPINION 19 Is there a way to clean up crime and corruption in the public sector?

PERSONALITY PROFILE 20 In conversation with Gert Venter, sales manager of Radio Data Communications

COMPANY NEWS 21 Eaton champions fire safety at KZN Construction Expo

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Is that some light at the end of the tunnel?

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he Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, Corruption and Fraud has made for riveting viewing since it opened on 20 August 2018 in Parktown, Johannesburg. Appointed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, the Commission has shone a spotlight on a host of characters, not least of all former ministers, representatives from the various banks, Eskom chair Jabu Mabuza, former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi and, at the time of going to print, expected testimony from former finance minister Trevor Manuel and former SANDF chief General Siphiwe Nyanda.

A key takeaway on opening day came from the Commission’s legal head, Advocate Paul Pretorius SC, who endorsed Professor Pieter Labuschagne’s assertion that the essence of representative government was to act in the interests of those it governed. This, he said, included holding officials accountable when they failed to act according to their obligations and being held criminally accountable for unlawful acts.

Certainly, the Zondo Commission, along with the Mokgoro Commission, which is investigating the fitness of National Prosecuting Authority senior advocates Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi to hold office, and the commission that’s following up allegations of impropriety in the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) have started on the right footing.

According to Advocate Pretorius, the Commission’s obligations are four-fold, beginning with the inquiry process. In the lead up to the opening of the Commission, Parliament tasked specific committees to investigate allegations of financial mismanagement and governance at Eskom,

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the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of Mineral Resources, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and others.

The remaining three stages of the Commission will hopefully see it making its findings, reporting on them and then, finally, making recommendations. Where appropriate, according to Advocate Pretorius, the Commission will also refer matters for prosecution or further investigation, and even convene separate inquiries pertaining to specific people.

That’s hopeful.

Running parallel to the commissions is a review of the country’s criminal justice system currently underway by the Department of Justice. Calling on members of the public to share suggestions on how to address problems, it says areas under scrutiny include the effectiveness of bail and sentencing procedures, the causes of delays in the finalisation of criminal trials, the effectiveness of the Criminal Procedure Act and the Law of Evidence, and the management of cases from crime scene to completion of trial. That’s also hopeful.

In his 2019 Annual State of the Nation Address (SoNA) earlier this month, President Ramaphosa resolved to cure South Africa of the “corrosive effects of corruption” and to “restore the integrity of its institutions”.

The appointment of Advocate Shamila Batohi to the position of National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), along with his promised re-establishment of the National Security Council and two arms of the intelligence service also lead me to hope that we’ve at least started on his road to renewal.

Certainly, it’s time for a massive clean-up operation in the words of columnist Max du Preez, who, in his article on News 24, makes

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Editor ingrid@securityfocusafrica.com valid points. For one, he says South Africa has a “formidable constitution” protected by an independent, assertive Constitutional Court, with its civil liberties and the rule of law entrenched in the Bill of Rights. And for another, he avers that “the good tax paying citizens are angry that corruption is tearing at the fabric of our society and sabotaging our children’s future, and demand action.”

Yes, we as a country are angry, punchdrunk by crime and corruption. While we’re an optimistic bunch at heart, many of us will only start believing in the President’s envisioned new dawn when we see the guilty facing the full might of the law, without fear or favour. It really boils down to the old doctrine that not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done. This, I believe, is critical to restoring public confidence and trust in President Ramaphosa and the State as a whole.

That it’s going to be a bumpy ride is a given. But as we head for the polls on 8 May 2019, in what will be our sixth national general election since 1994, we do have hope. Old Mutual Investment Group Chief Economist Johann Els doesn’t foresee a junk status downgrade in the “immediate short-term”, saying that “despite the upwards revised expenditure ceiling and budget and debt ratios, Moody’s (as well as S&P and Fitch)… will likely adopt a wait-and-see attitude until after the elections”.

Calling the 2019 Budget Speech a “very strong and positive statement regarding support for Eskom and other SOEs”, he added that “the Eskom and public sector wage bill announcements, as well as the tone of the budget speech – especially when read in conjunction with the October 2018 Medium-term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) and President Ramaphosa’s recent State of the Nation Address – is generally positive.” Let’s hope so.

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ASSOCIATION NEWS

SASA industry news Following the 1 January 2019 implementation of the new National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the resultant questions around it, the Department of Labour Chief Director: Labour Relations Thembinkosi Mkalipi has provided us with a definitive response.

In short, Sectoral Determination 6 still applies, but: • The NMW must be applied where applicable (as specified); • All conditions of employment, allowances, bonuses and other benefits remain unchanged; • No existing benefits may be reduced to compensate for the NMW; and • The monthly salary principle still applies to all employees, as per the table below.

The Directive: National Minimum Wage Act Implication to the Private Security Industry Sectoral Determination reads as follows:

1. Purpose To give clarity in terms of the jurisdiction of the National Minimum Wage Act 2018 and the Private Security Sectoral Determination No 6.

2. Who needs to read this section?

All inspectors, employers and employees in the private security sector.

3. Directive The amendment to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), published on 27 November 2018, came into effect on 1 January 2019, and stipulates that the BCEA: • Provide for daily wage payments applicable to certain employees; • Repeal certain provisions dealing with sectoral determinations and to disestablish the Employment Conditions Commission; • Extend the jurisdiction of the Commission

for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA); • Extend the provisions for monitoring and enforcement by the labour inspector; • Include enforcement of the provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 2018, the Unemployment Insurance Act 2001, and the Unemployment Insurance Contributions Act 2002; • Provide for claims for underpayment; • Provide for transitional arrangements; • Regulate sectoral determinations currently in force; • Strengthen collective bargaining in respect of the sectors regulated by those sectoral determinations; and • Provide for matters connected therewith.

As a result of the National Minimum Wage Act, and the amendment of the BCEA, all employers including employers in the private security sector should comply with the prescribed minimum wage of R20 per hour, which came into effect on 1 January 2019. The Private Security Sectoral Determination is still applicable to the employers and employees in this sector, and therefore employers should consider sectoral determination when finalising contracts of employment.

All employees who were earning below R20 per hour should have their wages adjusted from 1 January 2019 to at least R20 per hour. In terms of the private security sector, these categories will be affected: • Clerical assistants in Areas 1, 2 and 3; • Clerks in Area 3; • Drivers in Area 3;

• General workers in Areas 1, 2 and 3; • Handymen in Area 3, • Grade C, D and E, and; • Employees elsewhere not specified.

The sector has to comply with the amendments for both BCEA and NMW. The contravention of these acts should be condemned. In these cases immediate legal proceedings should be instituted. Where prohibition notices are served, these should be followed up immediately and legal proceedings instituted where applicable.

Says SASA National Administrator Tony Botes: “A further major change in the amended labour legislation is that, if a DoL Compliance Order is not satisfied by the employer, it will be referred to the CCMA, which will deliberate via arbitration. If found guilty, the amount of restitution could be doubled if a first offence, or trebled if a second or subsequent offence.

“Whereas the previous system, via the Labour Court, was extremely costly (and took an average of 6 years to finalise), the CCMA route is quick (about 6 weeks) and does not require legal representation. The challenge is that the CCMA award carries the same weight as a High Court order and can result in a warrant of attachment against the employer.”

If you need any further information, please contact SASA at: Office: 0861 100 680 Email: admin@sasecurity.co.za The full SASA membership list is available at www.sasecurity.co.za

MONTHLY SALARY RATES RESULTING FROM NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE (with effect from 1 January 2019) Areas 1 & 2

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Maximum permissible Alberton, Bellville, Benoni, Bloemfontein, Boksburg, Brakpan, All other areas ordinary hours Camperdown, Chatsworth, Durban, East London, Goodwood, per week for Inanda, Johannesburg, Kempton Park, Kimberley, Klerksdorp, each respective Krugersdorp, Kuils River, Mitchell’s Plain, Nigel, Oberholzer, Paarl, category of Pietermaritzburg, Pinetown, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Randburg, employee, Roodepoort, Sasolburg, Simon’s Town, Somerset West, Springs, subject to clause Stellenbosch, Strand, The Cape, Uitenhage, Vanderbijlpark, 5(2), with regard Vereeniging, Westonaria, Wonderboom and Wynberg to the averaging 1 November 2018 1 January 2019 1 November 2018 1 January 2019 of working hours.

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R5 558

R4 613

R4 613

Grade B

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R4 981

R4 198

R4 198

Grade C, D and E R4 377

R4 377

R3 643

R4 160

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COVER STORY

ORION™ baggage and parcel screening suite of products launched New security inspection solutions products reimagine screening technology.

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apiscan® Systems, a leading global supplier of security inspection technologies, recently announced the launch of its new, high-performance ORION™ series product line. Three new checkpoint screening solutions, the 918CX, 920CX, and 922CX, are available immediately, with additional models planned for the future.

ORION™ technology was developed to help operators identify and mitigate threats faster and more accurately by offering best in class image quality and material discrimination. The solutions that make up the ORION™ series provide significant improvements to overall screening and performance.

This product launch serves as the first of many new offerings from Rapiscan Systems, which will leverage innovations in imaging Rapiscan Systems enables operators to identify threats more quickly and accurately with their latest, most powerful & intuitive software for X-Ray Screening – ScanOS™.

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such as detectors and generators and deep learning algorithms.

The systems architecture allows for an upgrade path which enables future implementation of new imaging components across multiple platforms and a wide range of tunnel sizes.

In addition, the innovation path encompasses an open architecture, which enables the integration of security screening technologies across multiple platforms. This allows customers to more rapidly introduce innovative solutions into their security infrastructures.

ORION™ technology design offers outstanding reliability by supporting higher system uptime and improved serviceability, as well as an enhanced operating system, variable conveyor belt speed and intelligent bag management technology. Each solution also contains additional innovative detection capabilities such as TARGET and NARCScan, real-time screening algorithms created to identify narcotics and explosives threats with a high degree of accuracy.

Built to seamlessly blend into its surroundings, the ORION™ series boasts high performing detection and a sleek, modern finish.

“Rapiscan Systems has extensive experience in the security industry and unique insight into how checkpoint security can be enhanced,” said Mal Maginnis, President of Rapiscan Systems.

“ORION™ detection solutions do just that, by enabling an integrated and holistic approach to checkpoint security by providing the best X-ray image to the operator. The combination of industryleading features in each ORION™ solution creates smarter, safer and more efficient checkpoints – specifically designed to face current and future threats.

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“We are incredibly proud to bring this product line to market and look forward to sharing it with our customers.“

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We specialise in the supply & maintenance of certified airport type checkpoint security equipment, such as X-ray machines and metal detectors throughout Southern Africa.

HAB international widened its scope to include X-ray operator training and offers Quadratica X-Screen, an X-ray Image Recognition and Interpretation course which is supplied through a web based or standalone solutions.

Our service team are factory trained and ensures that we provide quality service and maintenance on all our products.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

News snippets from around the world Resuscitation of SIU tribunal

Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha (pictured above) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of the establishment of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) Special Tribunal, saying “the resuscitation of the tribunal will be a breath of fresh air”.

Source: Mail and Guardian

Ramaphosa’s new anticorruption unit will be a victory against crime, say experts

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s move to establish a directorate within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) aimed at dealing with systematic corruption, including explosive evidence presented before the Zondo commission of inquiry, has been lauded by political analysts. Ten years after the Scorpions were disbanded, during his recent State of Nation Address, Ramaphosa said there was an urgent need for a directorate which would identify priority cases to investigate and recover assets thought to be from dubious activities.

Political analyst Levy Ndou applauded Ramaphosa on this move, saying it reflects the ANC’s commitment to fighting corruption and holding those implicated accountable.

“One of the government’s priorities is to fight against corruption and if one would explain the presidency of Ramaphosa since last year February, you’d hear him saying that he needs to develop all strategies to fight against corruption. There was a huge

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outcry when the Scorpions were disbanded and there is an alarming rate of corruption in South Africa. My view is that this should be seen as a commitment on the part of the President to ensure that they are able to fight corruption at all costs,” said Ndou.

Source: IOL

Bosasa employees panic after receiving ‘termination letters’, expected to down tools

A large number of employees are expected to down tools indefinitely at African Global Operations (AGO), as the services and facilities management company, formerly known as Bosasa, faces liquidation. AGO filed for voluntary liquidation recently after two of its banks, FNB and Absa, informed it that they were closing their banking facilities.

A day after the High Court appointed a liquidator to wind up the company, the firm’s Krugersdorp head office shut workers out.

At the time, liquidator Cloete Murray said he could not confirm how long the workers would be employed for.

Source: News 24

company First for Women said a recent study among 4 000 participants “reinforces the magnitude of this growing problem, with 64 per cent of the participants believing that children are at risk”. On 18 February, a 13-year-old pupil at Doornpoort Primary School in Pretoria committed suicide after being cyber-bullied.

Source: IOL

Pro-Zuma league cracks

Bishop Timothy Ngcobo, who has been mobilising support for former President Jacob Zuma during his court appearances in connection with corruption charges, has withdrawn from the Zuma lobby group. One of Zuma’s key backers, the bishop told The Witness he would no longer be part of the team lobbying for Zuma in the province.

Source: The Witness

Mitchell’s Plain CPF wants meeting with Ramaphosa over spike in gang violence

Disturbing cyber-bullying statistics ranks SA tops

A shocking 25 per cent of parents have reported that their child had been cyberbullied. This, according to a 2018 Ipsos Global Adviser study conducted in 28 countries, confirmed that South Africa topped the statistics for this form of bullying. Insurance

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Over the past three weeks, 25 people have been killed in gang-related murders in the Mitchell’s Plain and Lentegeur police precincts. The Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum wants to meet with President Cyril Ramaphosa about the sharp rise in gang shootings this year. In Bonteheuwel, 17 people have been shot dead since the beginning of the year. The Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum’s Abie Isaacs says a high-level response is needed since the murder rate is higher than it has been in previous years.

Source: Eyewitness News (EWN)

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NEWS IN BRIEF Hawks make seven arrests connected to Bosasa allegations at state capture

Eskom board chairperson Jabu Mabuza has provided the Zondo Commission with a list of people he believes may help in probing state capture at the power utility. They include, among others, controversial former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and former Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko.

Source: ENCA

Guardian says it has established that Eskom’s top management, led by chief executive Phakamani Hadebe, have been meeting the police’s top brass under the umbrella of the National Joint Intelligence Structure (Natjoints) in a bid to avert acts of sabotage, which include the destruction of Eskom property, some of which are national key points. One of the meetings, in which it was resolved to bring in the South African National Defence Force’s legal department to see whether the situation warranted the deployment of SANDF members, was held at the office of Mpumalanga’s police commissioner, Lieutenant General Bethuel Zuma. At this January meeting, the M&G was told, Hadebe allegedly revealed the power utility would be forced to announce retrenchments if its application before the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for a 15 to 17 per cent tariff increase was unsuccessful.

Source: Mail and Guardian

Three new navy ships to protect South Africa from pirates and illegal fishing

Modern day slavery rated world’s largest single crime industry

Construction has started on three new military patrol vessels to protect South Africa’s coastline. The vessels will aid in protecting South Africa’s 1.5 million km2 coastline from threats such as trafficking, illegal fishing and piracy. The vessels will cost a budgeted R1.5 billion and the first one is expected to be patrolling by July 2021. They will be constructed locally.

Source: Business Insider

A study of modern day slavery by the Genevabased International Labour Organisation (ILO) has concluded that there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15 million in forced marriages – with at least 71 percent of them comprising women and girls. The current figures are reportedly even higher since the release of the 2017 landmark study titled Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, which was a collaborative effort with the Walk Free Foundation, in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The Chicago-based Safe Haven Network has described human trafficking as “the largest international crime industry– exceeding that of illegal drugs and arms trafficking.”

Source: ipsnews.net

attempted to escape, resulting in a shootout.

The security footage shows a man sustaining a gunshot wound while trying to flee the scene.

Source eNCA

Mabuza: Molefe, Koko could shed light on state capture at Eskom

Hawks’ spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi has revealed that the Directorate for Priority Investigations (DPI) has arrested seven suspects, aged between 50 and 78 years, in connection with allegations of corruption, fraud and money laundering.

These arrests, according to Brigadier Mulaudzi, are closely tied to the state capture inquiry testimonies around Bosasa, now known as African Global Operations.

The arrests follow a marathon investigation wherein almost R1.6 billion is alleged to have been misappropriated in the tender processes for the procurement of various services by the Department of Correctional Services.

Source: thesouthafrican.com

Edenvale High shooting caught on camera

Footage of a shootout between police officers and robbers at Edenvale High School on 21 February shows the final moments of one man’s life and the dramatic escape of others from the scene of the crime. In security footage made exclusively available to eNCA, a group of armed men is seen arriving at the school and making their getaway while exchanging gunfire with police. Shortly after the men drove onto the premises, claiming to be parents of pupils attending the school, they held up staff and stole R8 000. Police were alerted to the crime and confronted the group as they

Eskom: Army and police on standby Fears of a labour pushback against possible retrenchments appear to be at the centre of Eskom and government’s decision to deploy police, intelligence and even the military to protect power stations. The Mail &

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SPECIAL FEATURE: DRONES

The drone

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“My fear is that, sooner or later, an illegally operated drone will cause a catastrophic aviation accident. If that happens, it will most likely be at an airport and involve a plane either taking off or landing.”

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hose are the grim words of US aviation attorney Mark A. Dombroff, in his article “Could toy drones ground the commercial UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) sector?” on the Aviation Pros website (aviationpros.com).

“In the traditional world of aviation,” says Mr Dombroff, “users of the country’s shared airspace tend to appreciate the importance of carefully observing all of the different ways in which our airspace is officially delineated, subdivided and categorised. Tax attorneys learn the tax code. True aviation stakeholders know to study and follow FAA regulations.

“But it is clear that among the thousands of regular folks who buy drones every year, a significant percentage are either unwilling or unable to follow the FAA’s complex rules.

What will the skies be like as the number of drone users – responsible, irresponsible and everything in between – grows into the millions?”

Mr Dombroff ’s words echo the growing concerns of airport authorities around the world on the back of ongoing breaches by drones. In December 2018, hundreds of 10

flights were cancelled at Gatwick Airport in the UK as a result of alleged drone sightings in the area, and in the same month, South Africa’s own King Shaka International Airport in KwaZulu-Natal experienced an alleged drone breach. Newark Airport in the United States came to a standstill in January 2019 after drone activity was reported in the area, and so did Dubai International Airport in February 2019.

Aside from the enormous cost and inconvenience of grounded flights, the threat to passenger safety is a major concern.

A joint statement released by IFALPA (International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations), ACI (Airports Council International) and IATA (International Air Transport Association) way back in 2016 noted “a very large increase in reports from all regions of the world of instances in which drones have been observed being flown dangerously close to aircraft and airports.”

The statement also noted that drones flying in the close vicinity of an airport or an aircraft could pose a serious risk to the safety of those on board the aircraft, and that in the event of a collision or near-collision between

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the drone and the aircraft, the resulting accident could cause loss of life.

The Airports Council International (ACI) World is also concerned that “the very rapid increase in recreational use of drones has created a new and significant hazard to aircraft operations in the vicinity of airports.”

In its 2018 Drones Policy Paper, ACI expects drone operations to surpass the number of manned aircraft operations in the near future, with growing numbers and uses of drones becoming an increasing risk to aviation as evidenced by reports of nearmisses and collisions between drones and manned aircraft around the world.

“The recent drone-related disruption at airports in Europe, and their potential impact on airport safety and operations, have raised significant questions for airport operators around the world on their preparedness to handle situations like this,” says ACI World Director General Angela Gittens.

“The highest authority for enforcement activities and initiating anti-drone measures will clearly be the relevant national authority, such as the Civil Aviation Authority in the case of the UK, and local law enforcement

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agencies. It is incumbent on all industry stakeholders, however, to take action to protect the safety of aircraft operations in coordination with these agencies. Airport operators should be aware of national laws and regulations pertaining to drones, with an understanding that these may reside outside of civil aviation.”

$100 billion by 2020 Global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs forecasts that the drone market will be worth $100 billion by 2020. “Like the internet and GPS before them, drones are evolving beyond their military origin to become powerful business tools. They’ve already made the leap to the consumer market, and now they’re being put to work in commercial and civil government applications from firefighting to farming.

That’s creating a market opportunity that’s too large to ignore,” it says.

Applications: the good and the bad According to Goldman Sachs, the consumer drone market was the first to develop beyond its original military purposing. “Demand has taken off in the last two years and hobbyist drones have become a familiar sight,” it says, adding that there’s plenty of room for growth. To this end, drones are increasingly being employed in search and rescue efforts, to deliver medical supplies to inaccessible and disaster-hit areas, in the construction, agricultural and mining sectors, for aerial photography, for wildlife monitoring and conservation, in law enforcement and surveillance, for terrain mapping, weather forecasting, news gathering and space exploration.

The downside, of course, is that drones also have huge potential for misuse. Research shows that they are being used to smuggle drugs and contraband across borders and into prisons, for illegal surveillance and espionage, and by terrorist movements, to name but a few.

The security risks associated with drones fall into two broad categories, according to ACI: use of drones to attack aircraft in flight, and use of drones as weapons to attack targets on the ground (aircraft, airports and non-aviation targets such as crowds and events). Aircraft on either arrival or departure phase are the most vulnerable to attack by drone, it notes, with notable scenarios including the use of a drone’s mass to cause damage, the use of drones with explosive devices, the delivery of chemical, radiological or biological agents into public areas, direct attacks on aircraft on the ground

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or airports with explosive devices, creating deliberate disturbances to airport operations, transporting dangerous items into restricted areas, and espionage and surveillance of sensitive operations.

South Africa as a legislative leader Attorney Lisa Emma-Iwuoha, from corporate law firm Michalsons, says the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has attempted to collaborate closely with the country’s “rapidly expanding” drone industry in terms of regulations. South Africa’s drone regulations came into force on 1 July 2015. “South Africa became one of the first countries to have comprehensive drone law, an aspect of robot law, firmly establishing it as a world leader in this field.

Since then, many other countries have followed suit,” she says.

The road to world-leading drone legislation wasn’t without its challenges, however. Until 2014, drones were viewed by the SACAA as illegal in South Africa, as there were no laws to govern their use.

South Africa, as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), is working with member states to create an international regulatory framework for drones using Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS).

The problem, though,” she adds, “is that legislation is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of drone technology.”

The drone regulation distinguishes between Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) or drones used for commercial, corporate or non-profit purposes, and those used for an individual’s personal and private purposes. “The regulations require operators to have RPAS pilots’ licenses from a SACAA-accredited training centre if drones are used for commercial, corporate or nonprofit use,” she explains. Other key features of the legislation include classifying RPAS according to their kinetic energy, as well as their height and weight.

Privacy is another huge consideration when dealing with drones, continues Ms Emma-Iwuoha. “SACAA needs to take privacy into account when developing drone law because drones are often equipped with video cameras, which can record or stream video anonymously and gather data. Many comments around the regulations when they were in draft form came from human rights and activist organisations, who expressed concern about drones infringing people’s right to privacy. They were worried that drones would make it increasingly possible for the state to collect information on its

citizens and they raised concerns about the potential for misuse by military drones.

Citing South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIAct), she says these provisions must be taken into account, especially in light of new advanced technologies such as drones.

Even the POPI Act itself might need to be reviewed, she notes further. “Any drone, regardless of its commercial or non-commercial purpose, potentially has the ability to collect and process personal information, which is a key concern that needs to be addressed.”

Anti-drone measures As the drone market grows, so does the counter-drone market. In his report: “Counter-Drone Systems”, Arthur Michel Holland of the United States-based Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College (dronecenter.bard.edu), says a new market for counter-drone technology is rapidly emerging. However, he notes, counter-drone systems are not without their challenges at the level of performance, practicality, legality and policy. Key takeaways of the report include that the most popular drone detection techniques are radar, RF (radio frequency), EO (electro-optical) and IR (infrared), and that the most popular interdiction technique is jamming.

“Compounding the effectiveness issue is the fact that drone technology itself is not standing still. The C-UAS market will therefore have to constantly respond to new advances in unmanned aircraft technology.

As the unmanned aircraft systems market expands, counter-drone systems will need to be flexible enough to detect and neutralise a growing variety of targets, ranging from large unmanned aircraft capable of carrying heavy payloads through to low-flying micro surveillance drones that might only weigh a few grams. Indeed, the proliferation of C-UAS technology might even accelerate the development of technologies that will render C-UAS systems ineffective, particularly in military environments. Drones might be programmed to operate in patterns that make them difficult to detect, or rotors might be modified to dampen a drone’s engine noise so that it can evade acoustic detection. Drones might be designed in such a way as to reduce their radar signature (some have speculated that ISIS drones are often wrapped in tape for precisely this reason).

Counter-laser systems could protect drones from directed energy attacks. Finally, forces might seek to deploy drone swarms, which present a range of vexing technical challenges from a C-UAS perspective.”

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Threats and trends

around airport, road and rail security in 2019 In its 2019 City Mobility Index (DCMI), global services giant Deloitte says that getting from A to B should be, at worst, a forgettable experience, not an existential threat. But with an ever-widening threat landscape that sees terrorism and cybercrime topping the risk list, security providers in the airport, road and rail sectors have their work cut out for them.

Airports In her opening speech at the 27th Airports Council International (ACI) Africa Annual Conference, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in October 2018, ACI World Director General Angela Gittens warned of the vulnerability of aviation to a host of threats, not least of all terrorism.

“To address these threats, there is an urgent need to ensure that effective and efficient measures are in place throughout the world,” she said, emphasising the need for new screening technologies, and effective safety and management systems and practices.

Regarding Africa, Ms Gittens said that as the second-largest and second-most populous continent, with more than 1.2 billion inhabitants, it was expected to become a vital participant in the global economy. In 2017, Africa was home to 12

some of the fastestgrowing economies on the planet and its growth rate had been trending upwards in recent months, she noted. Accordingly, she called on African airports to adopt risk-based safety and security concepts, advanced technologies and process innovation as a matter of urgency.

Nick Careen, Senior Vice President: Airport, Passenger Cargo and Security for IATA (International Air Transport Association), ahead of the February 2019 AVSEC World Conference in Miami, US, says that challenges to aviation security are constantly evolving.

In line with this year’s conference theme titled “Disrupters and Enablers to Aviation Security”, he stresses the need for “even greater collaboration” between government and industry in order to keep a step ahead of security threats.

Alexandre de Juniac, director general and CEO of IATA, says security is a topic of critical importance, with speed being of essence today. “For a business,

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speed is linked to success and ultimately survival. Security is the same. Speed matters. Threats emerge quickly. And they evolve fast."

In his article “Four Challenges Facing Aviation Security” which appeared in the March 2018 issue of Security Management, Aviation security expert Anthony McGinty, CCP, says traditional city problems are finding their way into airports. His other concerns are international terrorism, in-flight disruptions and insider threats. Law enforcement and security agencies will therefore have to be able to perform first-responder duties while at the same time identify high-consequence threats to aviation operations, he avers.

“Both require specific, distinct skill sets,” he stresses, adding: “Security directors need to balance assets, personnel, and operations to mitigate both public disorder and homeland security risks.”

Rail Terrorism and cybercrime are also serious rail security concerns. In a workshop conducted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in conjunction with the

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After contributing substantially to the country’s formative development, it has become increasingly evident that the rail sector is past its peak in terms of contributing to the national freight and passenger transport tasks,” – National Rail Policy Draft White Paper International Transport Forum (ITF) and the International Union of Railways (UIC) at the 2018 ITF Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany, experts voiced concern over the rise of terrorist attacks on transport systems around the world.

Highlighting the vulnerability of transport hubs as targets for large-scale destruction, they identified a range of risks, including the theft of vehicles for use as car bombs, and attacks on tunnels and bridges.

The ITF’s Francisco Furtado maintained that security measures needed to address not only terrorist attacks but crimes committed on the premises of transport operators, theft of cargo in transit, cybersecurity and even piracy on the high seas.

EU Director General Patrick Norroy, in his presentation, voiced concern over the number of “significant terrorist attacks” that had taken place since 2015 in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium and Spain and the modus operandi, which included firearms, knives, explosives, vehicle ramming and incendiary devices such as was used at the Brussels Central Station in June 2017.

Further, he said, the global impact of huge cybersecurity events such as the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware epidemic had taken the threat from cyber-crime to another level,” adding that major businesses were now being targeted on a scale not seen before.

While lauding “some” successes in disrupting major online criminal syndicates, he emphasised that the collective response was still not good enough, and that people and companies everywhere needed to do more to better protect themselves.

To this end, he urged reinforced cooperation between the police and railway companies, and the creation of a process which empowered users to: • Think perpetrator, and threat.

• Think opportunity for terrorism/crime, generated by the design and operation of the MMPT.

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• Think preventer, and security needs.

• Think designer, and the wider requirements for the business, the users and society.

• Think manager.

• Think future – resilience and adaptability in the long term.

A huge challenge, he said, was how to be innovative in applying stronger security measures without intruding on passengers and by retaining open, accessible and affordable rail services.

PRASA The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is making headlines for mostly the wrong reasons, barring the success of its joint venture with the City of Cape Town and provincial government which saw the launch of the Rail Enforcement Unit in October 2018. Comprising 100 police officers, the R47.9 million unit will operate for a period of 12 months, assisting existing security service providers in addressing crime.

Allegations by the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) that PRASA is operating unlawfully after it failed to meets its safety permit renewal deadline, comes on the back of ongoing, violent attacks on Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal trains.

As a result, strike action is being planned by related unions in protest against the Agency’s alleged inability to properly safeguard passengers and employees.

In June 2017, the Department of Transport published its National Rail Policy Draft White Paper, inviting comments from the public. The Paper noted the structural distortion of three transport modes in South Africa, namely maritime, rail and road. Stating outright that rail was not a safe mode of transport in South Africa, it placed responsibility for the security of rail assets, freight and passengers in the hands of operators,

who along with the relevant government agencies, needed to provide protection from vandalism, theft and sabotage. The Paper also called for the reintroduction of the old “Railway Police” to uphold the law in the rail sector.

“After contributing substantially to the country's formative development, it has become increasingly evident that the rail sector is past its peak in terms of contributing to the national freight and passenger transport tasks,” it said in the executive summary.

“It has experienced a generally downward trend for several decades, although there have been a few highlights. It has lost virtually all its branch line traffic, virtually all long distance passenger traffic, slipped from par player in global heavy haul to third place in iron ore with 6 per cent and fifth place in coal with 5 per cent of the respective global markets, while general freight and commuter rail market shares are around 10 per cent.

“Meanwhile, the world's railway industry has been reinventing itself for fifty-odd years to realise the benefits of global railway renaissance. Year 2050 looms beyond that, by which time many governments will depend on rail to meet substantial international commitments to reduce transport sector greenhouse gas emissions. This will require increasing rail traffic by two, three, four times. These events have provided eight consecutive decades of golden opportunities, but the country's railways have barely scratched their surface.”

Kaspersky Lab, in its most recent Railway Systems Security Assessment, supports the importance of railway systems as a crucial area of public transportation in any country. Maintaining that the safety of railway transportation is closely connected to the security of train communication networks, wireless communications,

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signalling systems and station automation systems, it says today’s best security systems need to be able to understand and manage risks, as well as detect and prevent security incidents.

Road security Cybercrime tops the list of threats to road security, too. Writing for Risk and Insurance.com, Katie Dwyer, in her article “6 Critical and Emerging Risks in Transportation” says cyber exposure is one of the most pressing modern-day threats to the transportation sector.

“Some of the threats facing planes, trains and automobiles are ongoing, while others are just emerging,” she writes.

“Increased use of fleet telematics systems that track the location, status and condition of physical assets creates more access points for hackers.

“While breaching a private network does expose private customer data, the greatest threat to transportation companies is the potential for cybercriminals to cause physical damage to the vehicle itself or its precious cargo.”

Speaking ahead of the Transport Security Congress, scheduled to take place in Washington DC in May 2019, General Manager James Pickard says this year’s focus is on industry-wide collaboration on security and safety in the digital age.

The agenda is a weighty one that includes digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity and managing a cyberattack, physical security and staff training, blockchain technology, artificial Intelligence (AI), data analytics, real-time CCTV and drones.

Rail infrastructure owners and operators, airlines and airport infrastructure, logistics operators, and automotive suppliers all face the possibility of cyber-attacks that can interrupt physical networks and cause significant disruption, concludes a Marsh report titled “Cyber risks in the transportation industry”.

“The damage that cyber events can pose to a company’s profits, reputation, brand, competitive position, and even operational ability is potentially vast; however, many companies remain underprepared.

Companies must understand the risks they face and put into place robust systems to limit the impact on the business.”

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Africa must invest in the new ‘high seas’ treaty With its vast coastline and high levels of organised crime, treaty negotiations must be one of Africa’s priorities.

Agnes Ebo’o, Regional Coordinator Central Africa, ENACT project, ISS

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he world’s largest crime scene is not in any specific country or region. It is the area known as the ‘high seas’ – those parts of the oceans that fall outside the national jurisdiction of coastal states. Governance and regulation are limited here, given the principle of the freedom of the seas.

As a result, fragile habitats have been damaged by deep-sea bottom trawling and unique marine biodiversity has been destroyed. Species such as tuna have also been severely overfished.

Many of these crimes and activities have been attributed to organised criminal groups operating at sea, but legal sea users that carry out illicit schemes are also responsible. In 2012, the UN General Assembly noted the existence of “possible connections between transnational organised crime… and fisheries in certain regions of the world”.

A UN Office on Drugs and Crime study on transnational organised crime in the fisheries sector identified illegal fishing and overfishing, the dumping of toxic waste and pollution from vessels as common criminal activities carried out by networks on the high seas. These are also called transnational fisheries crime, or transnational environmental crime.

In September 2018, the UN launched formal discussions for a treaty to conserve the marine biodiversity on the high seas.

The talks are a welcome development, and not just for conservationists.

This historic and long overdue process, which follows over a decade of debate, is expected to take two years of negotiation before a treaty is adopted in 2020. Already dubbed the “Paris Agreement for the ocean”, it would be the first international legallybinding instrument to protect marine life in international waters.

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The treaty will scover two marine areas – the high seas and the Area – as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The high seas represent “all parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State”. The Area refers to “the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction”.

Until now, under UNCLOS, “all States, whether coastal or land-locked, [have] freedom of navigation, overflight, freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines, to construct artificial islands and other installations permitted under international law, freedom of fishing, and freedom of scientific research”.

The resources in the Area are viewed as the common heritage of mankind. The exploitation of these resources is based on a first-come, first-served principle.

This has been a grey area in international law, leaving the high seas open to criminals.

Particularly relevant to the new treaty are those forms of transnational organised crime committed at sea that have been identified by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. These include vessel-source pollution, such as the illegal and deliberate discharge of oil into the ocean, and fisheries crimes.

The latter often overlap with other forms of organised crime, such as drug smuggling and human trafficking. Legal loopholes have until now prevented the prosecution of those who commit these offences. The new high seas treaty is an opportunity to remedy that.

The future treaty won’t replace or supersede UNCLOS or other relevant legal instruments. It will be called the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

and will cover conservation and sustainable use of marine resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

Renowned marine biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia, Daniel Pauly, advocates for a total ban on fishing in the high seas, saying that “all the species that are taken from the high seas, like tuna, could still be caught in nationally controlled coastal waters”.

For the African Union’s 55 member countries, which include 38 coastal states, better high seas regulations will enable better governance of the continent’s marine resources. The treaty will ensure that all states, including those that are landlocked, participate more equally in the global maritime economy.

Africa could benefit significantly from the treaty, and African countries are jointly participating in negotiations under the banner of the G77 group, and China.

How they negotiate the inclusion of the continent’s priorities will be key.

Before the first conference in September 2018, matters relevant to Africa were identified during the preparatory sessions.

Most were retained as focus topics for the two-year cycle of conferences. They include genetic resources, environmental impact assessments, capacity building and the transfer of marine technology.

Better regulation of the high seas should help stem the uncontrolled exploitation of the oceans and the seabed. For African states, this means participating in and benefiting from the international maritime economy.

To achieve this, African governments will need to clearly articulate their positions and priorities, and play a proactive role in the treaty negotiations.

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New handbook for airports to combat human trafficking

Airports Council International (ACI) World has published the first edition of its ACI Combatting Human Trafficking Handbook, a free resource providing reallife examples of the work that airports are doing to help in the fight against human trafficking.

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irports around the world are determined to assist authorities by reporting suspected human trafficking cases and making it as difficult as possible for the global air transport network to be exploited for this trade. This handbook draws on the experience of airports that have already acted in this area and provides guidance to airports on the options that may be available to them.

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The handbook includes materials and advice to assist airports, irrespective of their size or location, to help them play a significant role in combatting human trafficking by promoting a comprehensive approach that involves coordination with airlines and law enforcement agencies, such as border-protection and customs agents.

“The safety and security of passengers remains all airports’ number one priority and the airport community is determined to work with border authorities and our partners across the world to help put a stop to the appalling crime of human trafficking,” said ACI World Director General Angela Gittens.

“Many of our airport members are already demonstrating their commitment to this effort and this handbook provides useful information and advice to strengthen our combined efforts in awareness, training, and reporting.”

Airport members of both the ACI World Security and the Facilitation and Services Standing Committees contributed to this publication.

Christopher Birch, director, guest experience at San Francisco International Airport said: “We are proud to collaborate with Airports Council International on the development of this valuable

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resource to combat the practice of human trafficking through airports.

Addressing this issue head-on requires the engagement and education of all airport stakeholders, operators, tenants, partners, even the public, and this handbook allows users to immediately begin tackling this problem at their own location.

“We thank ACI and our fellow committee members for their efforts in creating this important document.”

Saba Abashawl, chief external affairs officer at Houston Airport System, which contributed to the handbook, said: “The first, and maybe most important step in combating the heinous crime of human trafficking, is promoting awareness. The more we are aware of the signs, of the impact, and what we can do to help recognise and stop human trafficking, the more weapons we have in our arsenal to combat it."

Proactively preparing the people on the front lines, the dedicated people working at airports and for airlines, to be an active part of the efforts to identify and take action to stop human trafficking is an invaluable asset in reaching this important goal. They can serve as vigilant eyes and ears and can help raise the public’s awareness of the issue while spreading the message of awareness and action.

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MEMOIRS

An alarming affair Memoirs of alarm industry veteran Willy de Jong Part of 1 of a 2 part series

Researcher, developer, installer and trainer as well as Honourary Life Member of SASA (Security Association of South Africa) and a former committee member of SAIDSA (South African Intruder Detection Services Association), Willy de Jong has spent 25 years in the alarm industry.

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t’s a journey that has taken him from school-boy tinkerings to the latest in world-class technology. Having been party to the evolution of the simple burglar alarm from radio valves to today’s sophisticated transistor and integrated circuit technologies, he has seen it all.

Where it started As a schoolboy, Willy was fascinated by electronics. Long before the days of transistors and integrated circuits, he made a burglar alarm for his parents’ house out of coils, copper wire and nails. When he discovered magnetic relays and door switches, his systems became more sophisticated, incorporating Ademco switches imported from America, and then later the more costeffective reed switches.

First job In 1955, Willy started his apprenticeship as a radiotrician at Benoni Electrical, under a “very strict” journeyman called Dirk van Niekerk.

“When I saw one of the first transistor radios to come onto the market during that time, I thought it was a marvel!” he recalls.

“I was also very impressed with the first printed circuit boards, because before they came out, you fixed the fault, you didn’t replace the board as you do today.”

After his practical day work, Willy attended night school at technical college, where his subjects included Electrotechs, Radiotricians and Mathematics. On passing his trade test and obtaining his

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Radio Repairers Certificate, he joined SA Philips as a radio technician, where he spent nine years. His next position was at Automatic Burglar Alarms, one of the industry’s leading alarm manufactures and installers at the time, which was eventually taken over by Chubb.

Early equipment In those days, passive infrared detectors were unheard of, says Willy. “A lot of innovation took place around early detection equipment under the leadership of Ralph Brennon, who was supported by

Xeno Chavaranis, a man of great technical ability.”

From siren alarms powered by car batteries, the burglar alarm industry moved to telephone alarms that used pre-recorded 78 RPM gramophone records.

“The record was recorded with dialling pulses to phone the alarm control room and the police station, with a message saying something like ‘Calling the police … a burglary is taking place at Katz and Lourie, 121 Eloff Street, Johannesburg,” he explains.

“This was before the days of armed response, and the key holders would have to open up for the police.”

Record player units made way for cassette tape systems, which in turn were replaced by radio transmitters.

Using audio-modulated radio signals with high powered radio valves, Willy says the alarm code signal was in Morse code and most of the gears and wheels were made out of original Meccano sets.

“The pulses consisted of one long introduction followed by short pulses to identify the numerals. This would give you a three-digit code which would enable you to identify the premises from where the alarm originated. The code was read in the control room using a Morse code printer.”

From Morse code signals, radio systems progressed to tone reeds where each tone represented a numeral, recalls Willy.

“When the alarm was activated, the receiver would allocate the tones to the different numerals on the solenoids of an adding machine. A windscreen wiper

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the reel to activate the micro-switch and trigger an alarm.

Then there was the temporary holiday alarm, which people would have installed when they went away, he remembers.

Comprising a radio transmitter with charger, battery and thin copper Lumex wire, the system worked on a closed circuit basis connected to strategic points throughout the house. When the wire was broken, the alarm would trip.

“The problem was that the wire was so difficult to see that installers themselves would often be caught out, and the main drawback was that you couldn’t enter the premises without setting off the alarm and re-doing the wire.” motor connected via a radio dial cord would pull the lever across and the unit would then print out the code. Cards were kept in the control room with details of the property and the key holders. This later developed into the Chubb 500, where a fourth tone was added to provide information such as opening and closing signals, power failures and the like.”

Other systems in use at the time included the Daynite, which used tones on a sequential, rather than simultaneous, basis.

“I remember a control room operator called John Denny, a musician who could identify the tones by ear, decipher the codes and recall the premises in most cases from memory, only pulling out the cards to make sure he was correct.”

There was also the dual tone multi frequency (DTMF) system, the brainchild of Ken Victor of Sekurit Alarms in Port Elizabeth. “Today we have a digital system developed by Mike Andreka of RDC (Radio Data Communications), the leader in radio alarm monitoring in South Africa.

This system uses much less bandwidth and can provide all the information required in a modern monitoring centre, including circuit and key holder information. It’s quite phenomenal the progress that has been made when you think about it,” says Willy.

For a long time, he continues, the most reliable switch in the market was the Ademco surface mount switch, in either closed contact or change-over form. The reed switch followed, a bit unreliable at first as he recalls, “but they work fine today”.

Usually the concealed read switch would be hidden in the door frame with the magnet concealed in the door itself, but he says it could also be hidden under the floor or carpet with a magnet attached to the bottom of an item such as a dirt bin which 18

was placed in front of a safe, for example.

“An intruder would have to move the dirt bin in order to get to the safe and, in doing so, would set off the alarm.”

Window tension switches were especially popular on louvre windows. Mounted on the side of the window, a piano wire would be attached to the switch across the window under spring tension. “If the wire was pulled or cut, the circuit would open, setting off the alarm,” he explains.

Aluminium foil also had its moment in the alarm industry. “Used on the inside of windows, the foil would tear when the window was smashed,” he tells.

“This would break the circuit and set off the alarm. Soldering the wires to the foil using a special flux was, to say the least, quite an art!”

Silvistrip worked on a similar basis. The silver conductive paint was applied in a thin line, which would trigger an alarm when the window was smashed. Then came the mechanical vibrator, a device that used a pendulum under tension. It was short-lived, says Willy, owing to its vulnerability to false alarms.

Electronic sensors, on the other hands, were far more successful. Designed to amplify the sound of breaking glass, Willy says the challenge was to prevent curtains and blinds from interfering with the sound.

Pressure-sensitive trap mats, placed under carpets or welcome mats, were simple but very effective, he says. “When someone stood on the carpet, they would trip the circuit and trigger the alarm. Trap mats were very popular in shops, because they were also used to activate the ‘ding dong’ door bell.”

Even fishing line reels had their moment.

Fitted with micro switches, the gut line acted as a trip wire and was practically invisible. Willy says intruders would trip over the gut, which would in turn spin

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Wiring methods In the early days, Willy says wiring was done by stapling. No-one had thought of using glue, he chuckles. Twin flex was used as the circuit, a single, twisted wire as the tamper circuit and the resistor colour code was used for identifying the circuit number. “So you’d have brown for circuit one, red for circuit two, orange for circuit three and so on,” he explains.

“And then, along came multi-core telephone cable and clear glue. A technician called Fanie van Vuuren told me that he came up with the idea of using glue quite by accident. He was doing an installation and accidently trod on a tube of glue lying on some cable. The glue that came out stuck the wire to the floor. That gave him the idea of using glue to stick wires to the wall. It worked so well that alarm companies started making their own glue.”

Also in use back in those days, the closed circuit loop was a very simple system that utilised a wire loop, which, if cut, would raise the alarm. “The draw-back was that it was easily circumvented by shorting out the wires,” he says.

To overcome the drawbacks of the closed circuit loop, Willy says installers added a third touch wire. By twisting all three wires together, they made it a lot more difficult to identify the touch wire. Expanding on this, the double pole circuit system (four wires) came into effect for a while.

This was followed with the end of line (EOL) system using a resistor at the end of the circuit line still in use today. The latch freeze system, used by Guardal from the UK, employed LED’s (Light Emitting Diode) technology. No longer in use in the South African alarm industry, he says it’s still be found in fire alarm sensors.

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Is there a way to clean up crime and corruption in the public sector?

By Laurence Smith, Executive at Graphic Image Technologies

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Incidences of police officers being killed in the line of duty are becoming increasingly common. Reports from earlier in the year where five policemen were killed during an attack on a police station in the Eastern Cape were a bleak reminder that even the police are targets for criminals.

onversely, there are regular reports of police brutality and corruption in the line of duty that is difficult to corroborate without hard evidence. South Africa could benefit significantly from technology that can assist with these challenges.

It was thought that body-worn cameras would do the trick, helping to keep tabs on how our police officers conducted themselves as they carried out their duties, but the technology was, until now, insufficient. Thanks to recent developments, technology has matured beyond the simple idea of a body-worn camera (recording video footage onto an SD card) to a fullscale eyes-on-the-ground smart mobile sensor platform.

Technology such as this could completely change the way people are able to track and record what is happening on the ground, whether it be a local security company, a police task force or emergency response team.

Solid in theory, deficient in the field It was thought that making body-worn cameras a requirement for police officers and public servants would stamp out the opportunity for crime and corruption. After all, which police officer would attempt to solicit a bribe, knowing that their conduct was being recorded? Although the purpose behind body-worn cameras was solid, their limitations soon became apparent. The body-worn camera was exactly what it said, no more and no less: essentially a camera worn on a person’s chest that recorded video onto an SD card.

It was only possible to receive and view that footage once the individual checked back in at the control room and handed over their SD card to be plugged into a PC and the footage downloaded, which meant that footage was always after the fact.

Such cameras were easy to tamper with,

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and their view easily obscured by hands or objects held close to the chest. It was also easy to remove the SD card and damage it, destroying any footage of any wrongdoings.

The scope for error is greater, when a control room operator is managing upwards of 20 officers each with an SD card. In short, the body-worn camera’s downfall was its lack of real-time control and susceptibility to tampering.

Today’s technology is much smarter humans The ability to put eyes on the ground has gone from a standalone package (the body-worn camera with its limitations) and evolved into a complete end-toend video recording and management system, all wrapped up as a ‘smart mobile sensor platform’.

With a cloud-based platform, it is now possible to make use of HD video along with location and motion information in a lightweight compact solution made up of a sensory device (the camera together with a panic button) and a Power, Comms and Storage (PCS) component.

The sensory device is compact enough to be attached to glasses, collars, shirts or even vehicles, making it unobtrusive and the PCS component has live streaming over 4G LTE using a built-in GSM sim card to support live transmission at D1 resolution.

This provides good quality live video in the control room while recording high quality HD for automatic upload to the Video

Management System (VMS) when the unit is docked for recharging. In addition to realtime viewing and recording of video footage, these units contain a panic button which the wearer can trigger and provides the control room with complete visuals and audio of the scene, as it unfolds in real time. This makes it possible for the control room to dispatch the appropriate resources in response to any incident that may occur.

Because each unit is allocated to an individual using the allocation pad on the VMS, operators in the control room can identify exactly who is at.

Cleaning up corruption Smart mobile sensor platform technology will improve transparency and accountability wherever it is applied and responding officers and control room operators alike will be quick to see the value of the ability to have live footage on the scene while its happening.

Furthermore, the fact that footage is encrypted and is being transmitted live back to the control room and is automatically uploaded to the VMS when the device is docked, removes the element of human tampering, making it more reliable and forcing public servants to self-correct their behaviour.

From an evidentiary perspective, the ability to have high-quality video at HD resolution with full management, makes it easy to maintain the evidentiary chain, which has a positive benefit for admissibility of evidence in the prosecution of criminal behaviour.

Complicated problems like corruption and public servants stepping outside the realm of their duties can no longer be ignored.

Thankfully, there’s a simple solution to the problem of corruption: transparency.

That’s exactly what smart mobile sensor platform technology promises and it’s exactly what it provides: the means to finally stamp out corruption and ensure that public servants act in the best interests of the public they’re meant to serve and protect.

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PERSONALITY EXHIBITION NEWS PROFILE

In conversation with…

Gert Venter

By Ingrid Olivier

For Gert Venter, sales manager of Radio Data Communications (RDC), working in the South African security industry is not just a job.

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e’re here to save lives and keep people safe,” he maintains. “So for as long as crime is a part of our country, the security industry will be there to protect the innocent.”

Early years…

Born in East London, Gert grew up in Windhoek, Namibia. He returned to South Africa in his teens, where he completed school at Technical High School Bloemfontein in 1984, before starting his first job, as an apprentice, at Transnet.

He then completed two years of compulsory military service before finishing his apprentice training and qualifying as an artisan at Transnet.

Thirteen years later, he took up a sales position at BBR Security in Pretoria. He remained there when the company was bought by Chubb, until he moved to ADT, also in Pretoria.

From area sales manager, he was promoted to residential sales manager and then branch manager.

RDC… RDC (Radio Data Communications) is a leading manufacturer of radio transmitters, base stations, GSM communicators, battery testers and many more products, and it has more than 40 VHF networks throughout South Africa. In 2015, the company offered him a position as sales consultant.

Impressed by its reputation as well as its 24 / 7 / 365 technical support and “alwaysin-stock” philosophy, Gert accepted with alacrity. A year later, he was promoted to sales manager.

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ethic, clients are seen in the same light.

From the smallest to the biggest, they are all equally important to us.”

He also loves that every day is different.

An early riser, Gert is always at work before 7am. Some days begin at his office desk in front of his computer, where he deals with normal day-to-day emails, and compiles and assesses reports and strategies. Other days start on the road when he heads directly to see customers.

“I enjoy meeting different people and seeing how the various security companies operate.”

One of the key responsibilities of his position is to make sure his sales team reaches target. A hands-on manager, he leads by example, committed to providing customers with the service for which RDC has become known.

The challenges…

Without doubt, the economy and technology, which is ever-changing.

“Security is a grudge purchase and when the end user has to cut costs, it’s usually security that goes first. That causes attrition in security companies with a ripple effect down to the manufacturers.”

Likes…

“Without a doubt honesty and integrity. Be the same person in front of somebody as you are behind their back.”

Dislikes…

“Dishonesty and back stabbing. Don’t promise something and then do the opposite when they’re not around.”

The best part of the job…

What makes a good sales person?

“RDC is a family business and their employees are treated as family. We are all important and no one looks down on employees in other positions. Due to this

“Attitude. You can learn all the rest, but attitude comes from you. The right attitude draws people to you, and sales happen automatically.”

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Mentors…

“My commanding officer when I was at the Parachute Battalion. He laid the foundation for my work ethic, teaching me to be the best I could be in whatever I chose to do.”

Chill time…

A family man, Gert enjoys spending time with his wife and son, where he’s the official chef.

Bucket list?

“Funny enough, I don’t have a bucket list! I’ve done everything I’ve wanted to do, from skydiving, motorcycling and 4x4ing to hiking, sport shooting and bungee jumping. Now my focus is on being successful in my job and living long enough to experience the joys of retirement.”

Hopes for SA and the private security industry?

“That the economy improves. The way it is now is compounding problems such as unemployment, which is in turn promoting crime. People need to eat, they need a roof over their heads. There’s nothing more dangerous than a hungry person with nothing to lose.

“I’d also like to see more security companies working together in their communities. That’s the best way to be successful in the fight against crime. Yes, they are in competition with each other but their goal is the same, and that’s to have safe communities in their footprint.”

Best advice…

“The private security industry is a great industry to be in. Yes, it can be hard work and the hours can be long. But don’t give up. Not only will you grow from the challenges, but you’ll also be making a big difference in people’s lives.”

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COMPANY NEWS

Eaton champions fire safety at KZN Construction Expo Eaton Africa highlighted the critical importance of fire safety design in construction in KwaZulu-Natal’s R200 billion infrastructure programme at the 2019 KZN Construction Expo, which took place from 20 to 21 February 2019 at the Durban Exhibition Centre.

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ur research has shown that while the critical role of fire safety is specified, we often find that evacuation and emergency lighting systems which is critical is overlooked or left until late in expensive multi-billion-rand construction projects,” says Life Safety Product Line Manager for Eaton Africa, Dean Gopal.

This is a huge mistake that can lead to sub-standard or inappropriate systems being installed, which inevitably puts lives, property, and business continuity at risk and can cause project budgets to balloon uncontrollably.

Eaton’s suite of integrated fire safety products, which includes both conventional and intelligent addressable fire panels, emergency voice evacuation (vocal analogue and digital platforms), public address systems as well as emergency lighting and central battery systems, deliver a modern, responsive system that ensures business continuity, protect lives and property proactively.

The company recently saved the Alta du Toit Centre in Bellville, Cape Town, from closure resulting from its ageing fire system and regulatory non-compliance.

In partnership with Procom Fire, Eaton Africa installed a modern system, including 250 analogue smoke detectors, 15 heat sensors and 42 addressable surface call points as well as 75 decibel alarm sounders in all passage ways across the centre’s four hostels.

“We develop sustainable and future-proof commercial building fire safety solutions that maximise the functional use of space, increase energy efficiency and most importantly, keep people safe,” Gopal says.

“We don’t just supply the technology, but help clients support and manage their risk,

and create operational effectiveness in a collaborative way.”

The KwaZulu-Natal Government is investing R200 billion on infrastructure projects in the province over the next seven years. Over 15 years, starting in 2017, the eThekwini Municipality will invest an additional R35 billion at its Durban Point Waterfront development, as well as the 1300-hectare Cornubia mixed-use and fully integrated human settlement project.

“Projects of the scope and scale of the massive investments planned for KZN should include state-of-the-art fire detection and evacuation systems, to protect lives and ensure project longevity,” Gopal says.

The KZN Construction Expo, aimed at expanding business in the KwaZuluNatal building and construction sector, hosted over 2750 construction industry professionals, ranging from small contractors to architects, quantity surveyors, property developers, government representatives and industry associations. Over 60 exhibiting companies from more than 10 countries across Africa also attended the event.

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COMPANY NEWS

Paxton named one of the best places to work – again!

It’s official: Paxton is one of the best companies to work for in the UK. The company ranks 91 in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for 2019 list, announced last night at an awards ceremony. It’s the second year running it has made it onto the high-profile list.

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axton was also the only security manufacturing company in the UK to appear. The ranking was based on glowing feedback from staff, who rated Paxton highly in areas including leadership, team culture and giving something back.

Adam Stroud, Paxton’s chief executive, said: “We’re so happy to be in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For list for the second year running. This is a huge achievement and we’re incredibly proud.

It’s the people that make Paxton such a fantastic place to work and they are the reason for our continued success.

“With teams in 12 locations across the world, it’s important to foster a sense of community. Key to that is staff well-being and engagement.

“We always listen to our staff and, thanks to their feedback, have been able to introduce a whole host of initiatives to help them thrive.

This not only allows our teams to reach their full potential, but it also means we can attract the best and brightest talent.

“But while we’re delighted to again be recognised as one of the best companies to work for, we’ll always ask our staff if we

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can do better and will be introducing more initiatives in the year ahead. We’re excited about the future and becoming an even better place to work.”

The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For list is compiled using feedback from staff surveys conducted independently by Best Companies.

Paxton’s survey highlights included: • 94% agree the company encourages charitable events.

• 92% of staff believe they can make a valuable contribution to the success of the company.

• 87% feel proud to work for Paxton.

Paxton was founded in Lewes in 1985 and has seen a rapid expansion in recent years.

Employing over 300 people globally, it develops all products at its state-of-the-art technology centre in Brighton, manufactures all products at its factory in Eastbourne and exports to more than 60 countries.

It strives to be an employer of choice and offers benefits such free breakfasts, healthy snacks and drinks, private healthcare, a modern working environment with the latest technology, fully supported career progression and training, flexible working and family-friendly policies.

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The Sunday Times has published its annual Best Companies to Work For lists since 2001.

The lists are based on feedback from employees on the eight factors of workplace engagement: leadership, my manager, my company, personal growth, my team, wellbeing, fair deal and giving something back.

The annual survey is conducted by Best Companies on behalf of the Sunday Times.

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COMPANY NEWS

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COMPANY NEWS

DCC distributes SonicWall Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has been appointed an official distributor for SonicWall, a leading security solution provider that protects more than one million networks across the globe.

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vailable immediately to South African and SADC channel partners, DCC will be distributing SonicWall’s full range of security solutions which include: firewall; cloud security; management and analytics; remote access; email security; and advanced threat protection.

“SonicWall is committed to having a strong and skilled channel, that delivers the highest security efficacy with the lowest TCO. DCC is therefore the right addition to our channel, driving forward our strategy of expanding

our SecureFirst partner network in South Africa and beyond,” says Ashley Lawrence, Regional Sales Senior Manager, Emerging at SonicWall.

“Leveraging their skilled partner base to provide SMB and Enterprise customers with a comprehensive suite of security offerings that deliver a layered approach to security, based on SonicWall’s Capture Cloud Platform. DCC’s reach and ability to train and support our partners, is a great match. We look forwards to working with DCC as a new distributor for the region.

Adds Fred Mitchell, division manager: software solutions at DCC: “Our appointment is an important step towards providing a complete security solution offering to our channel partners.

We look forward to forming part of SonicWall’s partner network for both SA and SADC and believe we will make significant inroads in this all-important marketplace.”

SonicWall’s Security appliance (NSa) Mid-Range Firewall Series, for example, consolidates automated advanced threat prevention technologies in a mid-range nextgeneration firewall platform.

NSa series firewalls feature cloudbased and on-box capabilities such as TLS/SSL decryption and inspection, application intelligence and control, Secure SD-WAN, real-time visualisation and WLAN management.

Adds Ruan du Preez, product manager for SonicWall at DCC: “SonicWall’s next-generation firewall series is a tailored and diverse product offering aimed at small organisations and large enterprises. Our reseller partners will undoubtedly find a solution that meets their customers’ specific security requirements.”

Sensor secures all-time record sales in South Africa for Hikvision Sensor Security is proud to announce that they are the largest South African distribution partner for Hikvision, the world’s leading provider of innovative security products and solutions.

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ikvision, with more than 26 000 employees, of which over 13 000 are research and development engineers, has more than 2 400 partners in over 23 locations around the world.

To encourage product sales and superior levels of customer support and aftersales service, Hikvision recognises those partners who achieve key milestones within the network.

Hikvision has now confirmed Sensor’s record sales for 2018 – an achievement of which the company is extremely proud.

Not only does this significant accomplishment reinforce their motto of setting the standard, it speaks volumes about Sensor's team members and clients, who are united in the ability to put together world standard

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solutions from high-quality product offerings.This is not the first time that Sensor has been recognised by Hikvision for their efforts. In 2017 Sensor was named the winner of the Hikvision Global Excellent Service Partner Award for outstanding return merchandise authorisation (RMA) and technical support.

Benefits for clients Sensor's achievements and recognition as Africa’s top distribution partner of Hikvision has added benefits for their clients. It positions Sensor to strongly

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negotiate with Hikvision on their clients' behalf. The volume of turnover enables Sensor to stock the largest variety of Hikvision products. As specialists in the Hikvision product range, Sensor is able to provide all the technical support to its clients for complete peace of mind.

Product guides As further support to their clients, Sensor has compiled the following Hikvision product guides, which are freely available at all their offices:

• Hikvision Run Rate Product Guide (high demand products).

• Hikvision High End Surveillance Guide (projectbased products).

• Hikvision Intercoms & Access Control Guide (new on the market).

"We are certainly honoured by Hikvision’s recognition of our dedication to our powerful partnership and we are as proud of our achievement as we are of our clients who make this possible," says Jan Venter, Sensor Security executive chairman.

"Thank you for your continuing support as we look forward to finding more ways to raise the bar for our performance and client satisfaction even higher."

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ON THE MARKET

Outdoor XD detectors now officially EN Grade 2 approved Pyronix is delighted to confirm its entire range of outdoor XD detectors is approved to EN Grade 2 and Environmental Class IV.

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ow, a new dimension can be added to installations to deliver a completely EN graded system, which provides superior security protection inside and out.

“In our commitment to continuous improvement, we’re really pleased to see our XD detectors officially approved to EN Grade 2 standard and Environmental Class IV,” Laurence Kenny, Pyronix Marketing Manager, said.

Using any XD detector from the range, installers can now deliver a solution that

raises an alarm activation of any perimeter intrusion, or alternatively, if programmed as a switcher zone into the Enforcer control panel, provides users with early warning push and voice notifications via HikConnect or ProControl+.

Ultimate performance Utilising specifically developed technologies including AntiSway Analytics and Dual-Vision Pet Immunity, the detectors

provide reliable security detection, while minimising the risk of false alarm activations that fluctuating outdoor conditions pose.

Flexible installation With both wired and wireless variants available, along with differing heights and mounting preferences, installers can fit the detector which most suits the installation. The range also consists of variants with

superior features which are normally only seen in higher graded solutions, including anti-masking and anti-blocking; enabling installers to offer the ideal outdoor solution.

“Our XD range of detectors offers great flexibility for security solutions; as a detector in the most traditional sense, or as a switcher zone alongside Hikvision cameras for video verification,” Laurence said.”

Introducing the PAN-1A door phone station adapter Viking’s attractive E-series entry phones are now able to utilise powerful features available on Panasonic door phone station cards.

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ustomers can utilise the features offered on a Panasonic door card with a reliable Viking entry phone,” says Joanne Minke, Viking Electronics product specialist.

Replace Panasonic door phone models KX-T30865 and KX-T7775 by using the PAN-1A and one of Viking’s E-Series entry phones. Simply connect the PAN-1A between the Panasonic door phone/door

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opener card and your E-Series phone of choice. The PAN-1A can also be used with nonViking entry phones designed to work on analog extension/ FXS ports.

Use the PAN-1A for applications where a Viking Electronics entry phone is preferred, in applications demanding increased reliability, and applications where a more attractive entry phone is desired.

Viking’s E-series entry phones are available in multiple colours, chassis and sizes. Surface and flush mount options are available. Additional features such as colour video cameras and proximity readers are available for select models. Each E-series entry phone is available with Viking’s Enhanced Weather Protection (EWP) option for increased weather resistance and lifespan in harsh or exposed environments.

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ON THE MARKET

Spectra Professional 4K for high-resolution PTZ surveillance Pelco expands its 4K portfolio with a rugged outdoor camera that captures and tracks with mission-critical detail

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elco™ by Schneider Electric, a global leader in trusted video surveillance solutions, has announced the availability of the new Spectra Professional 4K cameras as an addition to their portfolio of high resolution (4K) fixed and pan tilt zoom cameras.

From license plates to faces, the rugged outdoor camera features state-of-the-art surveillance camera resolutions and compression standards to clarify details of interest in crowded or poorly-lit areas such as city surveillance, airports, metro stations, waterways, roadways, bridges, and other outdoor commercial applications.

Areas such as seaports and waterways are a particularly in need of better surveillance technology, with an estimated US$50 billion in losses annually, according to the National Cargo Security Council. The Spectra Professional 4K provides a solution for organisations who are frustrated with the inability to zoom into crowded, outdoor areas with low levels of light.

“Traditionally, when operators

zoom-in on 1080 p video, the details can become indistinct because there are only so many pixels,” explained Rob Yockey, Pelco’s senior product line manager.

“With 4K resolution, one camera can cover a large area and offer the ability to zoom in with greater detail. This technology greatly improves security operations in both live monitoring as well as in forensic analysis.”

The Spectra Professional 4K camera technology enhances the ability to recognise and identify objects at greater distances.

It also provides infra-red illumination up to 150 m, streams video in H.265, H.264 or MJPEG formats, and can see 15 degrees above the horizon.

“Pelco continues to expand its 4K resolution camera offering with the Spectra Professional 4K line of PTZ cameras by providing detailed images more clearly than ever before at greater distances,” Yockey continued.

“Spectra Professional 4K’s innovative features capture outstanding detail in low-light

conditions and is ideal for tracking people and vehicles across wide spaces.”

Spectra Professional 4K benefits In addition to the benefits that the Spectra Professional 4K camera provides with outstanding image quality, smart compression technology and sharp 4K detail, the new camera also includes the following key features: • Improved detection: With up to 4K resolution at 30ips, the Spectra Professional 4K can cover a large area with clarity of detail to record information such as license plates numbers or faces of people.

• Integrated IR: Primarily for outdoor applications with poor lighting conditions, the camera provides IR capabilities like Esprit Enhanced IR models.

In response to some cities passing laws to restrict white light pollution near apartments or in empty parking lots, the camera provides IR illumination that enables operation in the absence of visible light.

• Operational efficiency: The camera offers operators H.265 video encoding and Pelco Smart Compression that reduce the storage required while preserving image quality. With excellent PTZ responsiveness and features such as patterns and frame scan, Spectra Professional 4K enables close manual tracking of people or vehicles as well as the ability to cover spaces in an automated fashion.

• Tilt to + 15º Above the Horizon Look-Up: Allows for extended viewing area above most dome cameras that can only see to the horizon.

• EIS (Electronic Image Stabilisation): Reduces blurring associated with camera motion in environments subject to vibration.

Nemtek’s new fence light Nemtek’s new fence light is installed between the earth and live wire indicating the power on the fence for peace of mind.

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he brightness stays constant so you can see it from far even when the voltage goes low. What changes is the rate of flashing.

Slower means less voltage; fast means high voltage on the fence.

Some key advantages of the fence light: • Indicates power on the fence for

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peace of mind.

• Visible up to 1 km at night and 100 m during the day.

• No batteries required.

• Uses minimal power from the fence.

• High bright red LEDs can be viewed further away (160 degree viewing angle) • It can operate from 0.9 kV up to 12 kV.

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• Sealed with resin so that the unit is water tight.

• Available in brown with galvanised wire for inland use.

• Available in blue with stainless steel wire for coastal use.

• Easy to install between any earth and live wires.

• Can be used with all Nemtek electric fence energisers.

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CASE STUDY

CCTV / IP video surveillance solutions for Prague The Panomera® multifocal sensor system from Dallmeier watches over the goings on in Wenceslas Square and Old Town Square in Prague, providing security for an area of more than 50 000 m2.

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he Prague city administration, together with the Criminal Investigation Department, also relies on security technology from Regensburg-based Dallmeier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square, one of the largest city squares in Europe with an area of 45 000 m2, and the Old Town Square – both important hubs for tourism and traffic. In order to ensure the safety of the streams of people and vehicles in these places, when it comes to security equipment the administration relies on a combination of conventional cameras and a solution from Dallmeier.

Wenceslas Square in Prague was created in the 14th century and has evolved into a busy commercial district. It is used by pedestrians, cyclists, motor vehicles and local public transport alike, and so constitutes a major confluence point in Prague’s New City.

The city administration attaches great importance to ensuring that all of these traffic elements can coexist in harmony, and in order to have a general overview of what is happening, they, together with the police department, rely on the sharp “eyes” of the Panomera®.

Panomera® also provides security in the 9 000 m2 Prague Old Town Square, the historic heart of the city. Its history dates back to the 11th century, and it has always been a crossroads for commerce. Today its borders abound with restaurants, museums, galleries and shops.

Advantages of Panomera® The solution for both squares consists of Panomera® models from the Topline series.

The Panomera® multifocal sensor system is able to provide coverage for vast expanses and areas. A general overview with the highest possible resolution of details is very important, particularly for large squares.

With this camera technology, more remote objects can also be displayed with the same resolution as objects in the image

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foreground. Several operators can zoom into the same image at the same time. Even then, the overall scene always remains in view and recording continues.

Where previously several megapixels would have been needed, the user’s workload has been reduced significantly, because fewer images have to be captured. Infrastructure costs are also lower, since a single Panomera® captures a much larger area and fewer installation points are needed. For customers, this means cost savings – not only in terms of infrastructure, but also with regard to operation and management.

What we plan is what you get In the project planning phase, the Dallmeier 3D specialist team consisting of engineers and graphic designers created a threedimensional simulation of the customer’s environment. In the 3D model, the team simulated the real camera models and locations/installation sites, and thus also angles of vision and ranges.

The completed 3D model was presented to the customer jointly with integration partner KH Servis in Prague, and comprised the entire solution including the cameras and other essential components. The city administration and police authorities were delighted by this manner of project visualisation, because this approach allowed an accurate calculation of costs, giving the customer certainty regarding the cost and scope of the project.

3D planning also guarantees that there are no surprises either on the technical or financial level during or after the installation.

Besides the technical advantages delivered

by Panomera®, the customers were also impressed by the planning certainty they were given by the 3D visualisation, and, at the

end of 2017, Dallmeier won the order to put the project into practice.

Before it was installed, the planned solution underwent a Dallmeier Factory Acceptance Test at the FAT Centre in Regensburg. All components were assembled there, and the final environment was tested in live operation. While testing was proceeding in the FAT Centre, KH Servis was also attending training in Regensburg so they would be ready for the on-site installation and also so they could see the system operating flawlessly for themselves.

With the installation of the multifocal sensor systems, the desire for increased security and more effective intervention capabilities was realised. The cameras are used to observe situations and when necessary enable rapid countermeasures or also rapid investigation of incidents. In the event of criminal offences, the video material can be stored separately as evidence.

Special challenge Since both squares are bordered by buildings with historic monument status, the Panomera® cameras could not always be mounted where single sensor cameras had hung previously. Permission had to be obtained from the building owners before the cameras could be mounted, but this was managed successfully for all the new installation points.

The conclusion by KH Servis, Dallmeier’s integration partner in Prague: “We worked together with extreme professionalism, and the city administration and police authorities were ultimately convinced, not only by the quality of the systems and the image material, but also by the impressive planning phase and planning certainty it gave them.”

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CYBERSECURITY

The terabit era: get ready for bigger DDoS attacks When it comes to mitigating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, security professionals have long been concerned about the growing volume and frequency of such incidents.

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ETSCOUT Arbor, which specialises in advanced DDoS protection solutions, says that, with thousands of attacks reportedly underway across the world at any given time, large institutions have had to steel their defences against what is for many a daily event. This is according to Kevin Whalen, senior director: corporate and marketing communications at NETSCOUT Arbor.

Whalen reports that, in the recently released NETSCOUT Threat Landscape Report, researchers observed that the frequency of attacks had actually declined between 2017 and 2018. However, this is offset against another significant trend: attacks are multiplying in size, often far exceeding what many service providers consider a safe defensive capacity.

According to NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), the maximum size of DDoS attacks increased 174 per cent in the first half of 2018 over the same period in 2017. In February 2018, DDoS entered the terabit era.

Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at NETSCOUT Arbor, says: “As has been previously reported, the largest attack ever witnessed, at 1.7 Tbps, struck a large North American service provider, Github, in February 2018.

“Fortunately, the customer’s well-

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designed architecture and their incident response preparedness, combined with their multi-layered NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS solution, meant that they were able to successfully defend against the attack with no downtime.

“However, this act shows us that defences designed to counteract incidents in the 300 Gbps range are no longer adequate.

Even an infrastructure with a one terabit defensive capacity is at risk.”

According to Whalen, this recordbreaking attack is an example of the Memcached-based strikes that have arisen over the last year, so identified because they exploit vulnerabilities in memory caching servers used to accelerate data access for websites.

Well-known cache engine Memcached is free, open source software frequently deployed in cloud service infrastructures and enterprise networks with the effect of increasing bandwidth.

The actors behind the February attack uncovered a design flaw in the Memcached software package that enabled them to take advantage of large amounts of service-provider bandwidth to build and launch an attack of unprecedented scale.

NETSCOUT Arbor advised that, based on publicly available information on Memcached installations worldwide, at the end of February 2018, there were around 50 000 unsecured Memcached installations

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on the Internet that could be used as DDoS reflectors (whereby reflection denial of service attacks make use of potentially legitimate third party components to send the attack traffic to a victim, ultimately hiding the attacker’s own identity). In the weeks following the large attacks, this number dropped very quickly down to 20 000 and then gradually declined further to around 3 500 installations. Data from the ATLAS Intelligence Feed from NETSCOUT Arbor on Memcached attacks showed that, by and large, the attack frequency has remained flat since March last year.

“The trend toward larger incidents once again reinforces the case for a hybrid or layered defence posture that combines onpremise and cloud mitigation capabilities.

Such a hybrid defence position is NETSCOUT Arbor’s consistent best-practice advice. Everyday compromises are still relatively small and can usually be detected and mitigated with an on-premise solution.

“However, the rise of the terabit attack means it’s essential to have a cloud-based component with the capacity to mitigate attacks of such size. Cloud-based defences can be instantly activated when the onpremise component detects an attack of significant magnitude.

“The terabit-sized DDoS outbreak has arrived, and it will re-surface again in the future. The threat is real, and we must be ready,” concludes Hamman.

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LAW & SECURITY

By Peter Bagshawe

Commissions, investigations, indemnity and arrests A number of queries have come out of my previous article ‘National Director of Public Prosecutions Appointed’ last month, and it may be as well to attempt to provide clarity on the current situation in respect of the various Commissions of Inquiry that have sat or are underway, as well as the investigative capacity provided to National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Bathoi.

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number of questions have also been raised around the evidence led at the Zondo Commission and the arrest of persons who gave evidence or were implicated by evidence led.

Here the confusion appears to relate to a report that incorrectly referred to sections 105 and 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 interchangeably.

The listing of Commissions that follows is intended as a clarification and the summary of the intention of Commissions is somewhat cursory. Although the required Report was submitted by the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into South African Revenue Services (SARS) in December 2018, the recommendations contained in it are still being studied by State President Cyril Ramaposa. The Nugent Report was referred to by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in his recent Budget Speech and the appointment of a new Commissioner (replacing Acting Commissioner Mark Kingon) to take over as head of SARS continues to be awaited – as does the decision on the recommended prosecutions and the decision on the establishment and

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appointment of the InspectorGeneral of SARS. Retired Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro chairs the Commission of Inquiry into the fitness of Advocates Jiba and Mrwebi to hold office in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) with the report being due in March 2019 which gives the Commission a tight timeline.

The report of Inquiry into the Public Investment Corporation chaired by Justice Lex Mpati is due in April 2019 and has, to date, provided insight into an organisation that controls huge totals of funds within the government arena.

The Commission of Inquiry into South African State Capture chaired by Justice Raymond Zondo is due to submit its report

by March 2020, and given the quantity of evidence that has been led with cross-examination following, this deadline may be difficult to comply with.

The next two areas are linked and relate to the appearance of former chief operations officer of Bosasa Angelo Agrizzi, former Bosasa executive Andries van Tonder and former Correctional Services Chief Financial Officer Patrick Gillingham, who were

all granted bail in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on 6 February 2019.

This followed the issuing of warrants of arrest by the National Prosecuting Autority (NPA) for seven suspects involved in alleged corruption relating to R1.6 billion in tenders awarded to Bosasa by the Correctional Services Department and affiliated entities.

Former Correctional Services Commissioner Linda Mti was amongst those contacted by the Serious Economic Offences Unit but did not appear with Agrizzi, van Tonder and Gillingham.

The attendance of the balance of suspects is awaited.

The issuing of warrants of arrest for alleged corruption and the evidence led at the Zondo Commission has attracted interest. Briefly put, the evidence led at the Zondo Commission is not subject to the same strict set of rules that apply in a criminal trial, and accordingly may not meet the requirements of the criminal law.

When the Regulations governing the Zondo Commission were initially Gazetted, Section 8 (2) was very broadly framed and could have been read as providing immunity to witnesses on all evidence led whether or not this evidence was substantiated during proceedings.

This outcome was obviously undesirable and could have led to deliberate abuse to secure immunity from prosecution.

Section 8 (2) of the Regulations was amended shortly after Cyril Ramaposa became President to read that evidence led at the

Zondo Commission could not be relied on in criminal prosecutions, but evidence could be adduced subject to the rules of criminal procedure. Having established this question that has been asked repeatedly is why witnesses led at the Zondo Commission are not given immunity from prosecution. The simple answer is the Regulations do not allow for immunity, and nor would it be equitable or desirable, given the mandate of the Commission, that immunity be considered for witnesses called.

It is settled law that a witness can refuse to answer a question or give evidence that would incriminate the witness in a criminal matter.

Section 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act 105 of 1997 provides a mechanism by which an accused can lead self-incriminating evidence to assist in the prosecution of a criminal matter where the NPA are empowered to enter into an agreement with the witness. The NPA cannot guarantee immunity as this has to be subject to a decision by the court hearing the matter.

Effectively, the witness is required to answer all questions put by the prosecution on the condition that the court may grant the witness immunity from prosecution if the court finds that all questions put were answered frankly and honestly.

This procedure is frequently used to facilitate the prosecution of more senior members of organised crime syndicates. Section 105 of the Criminal Procedure Act has no bearing on immunity and is applicable where a represented

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accused enters into an agreement with the prosecution on a guilty plea where no evidence is required to be led and the prosecution may make a recommendation on sentencing. The recommendation does not have to be followed by the court.

At the time that Shamila Bathoi was appointed as National Director of Public Prosecutions, it was announced that a special investigative unit would be established. This led to an immediate and widespread perception that the Directorate of Special Operations, colloquially known as the Scorpions, was

being reintroduced. The Scorpions were unique and effective in that they reported to its Director, the National Director of Public Prosecutions and ultimately Parliament, and was set up to operate on a troika basis with teams comprising an investigator, a prosecutor and an analyst. On this structure, the initial gathering of information and evidence was done by investigators who provided information, structured the evidence and together with a prosecutor built the case.

This structure, the staffing and expertise that gave the Scorpions their level of success

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has largely been lost to the State infrastructure, with the majority of the former Scorpions having moved to the private sector.

It is now apparent that the new investigative unit will be established within the NPA structure and will require the appointment of a Director, staffing and the promulgation of the terms of reference of the unit. This is unlikely to come into effect in the short term and given the embarrassment of riches that the National Director of Public Prosecutions has available to review coming out of the various Commissions referred to above

the new unit could immediately play an important role.

I hope that the above has provided clarification and put into context queries that have arisen recently. The work being undertaken within Commission structures is new to our society and the initial arrest of those implicated in the Bosasa corruption allegations seems to indicate a new level of commitment on the part of the authorities.

PETER BAGSHAWE holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the former University of Rhodesia and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.

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SECURITY AND RELATED ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS PSIRA (Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority) Eco Park, Centurion t: +27 (0)12 003 0500/1 | Independent hotline: 0800 220 918 | e: info@psira. co.za | Director: Manabela Chauke | Chairperson: T Bopela | Vice chairperson: Z Holtzman | Council members: Advocate A Wiid | Commissioner A Dramat APPISA (Association for Professional Private Investigators SA) Bertie Meyer Crescent, Minnebron, Brakpan | e: info@appelcryn.co.za | www.appelcryn. co.za | c: +27 (0)73 371 7854 / +27 (0)72 367 8207 | Chairperson: Ken Appelcryn ASIS International Johannesburg Chapter No. 155. Box 99742, Garsfontein East 0060 | t: +27 (0)11 652 2569 | www.asis155jhb.webs. com | President/chairperson: Johan Hurter | Secretary: Chris Cray ASIS International (Chapter 203: Cape Town – South African Security Professionals) President/ chairperson: Yann A Mouret, CPP Secretary: Eva Nolle t: +27 (0)21 785 7093 f: +27 (0)21 785 5089 | e: info@aepn.co.za | www.asis203.org.za BAC (Business Against Crime) Box 784061, Sandton 2146 | t: +27 (0)11 883 0717 | f: +27 (0)11 883 1679 | e: info@bac.org.za CAMPROSA (Campus Protection Society of Southern Africa) President: Derek Huebsch | e: derek.huebsch@ nmu.ac.za | Executive secretary: John Tunstall | t: +27 (0)28 313 1711 | e: jtunstall@iafrica.com | www.camprosa.co.za CISA (Cape Insurance Surveyors Association) Shahid Sonday t: +27 (0)21 402 8196 | f: +27 (0)21 419 1844 | e: shahid.sonday@saeagle.co.za | Mike Genard t: +27 (0)21 557 8414 | e: mikeg@yebo.co.za DRA (Disaster Recovery Association of Southern Africa) Box 405, Saxonwold 2132 | Chairperson: Grahame Wright | t: +27 (0)11 486 0677 | f: (011) 646 5587 | Secretary/treasurer: Charles Lourens t: +27 (0)11 639 2346 | f: +27 (0)11 834 6881 EFCMA (Electric Fencing and Components Manufacturers Association) Box 411164, Craighall 2024 | t: +27 (0)11 326 4157 | f: +27 (0)11 493 6835 | Chairperson: Cliff Cawood c: +27 (0)83 744 2159 | Deputy chairperson: John Mostert c: +27 (0)82 444 9759 | Secretary: Andre Botha c: +27 (0)83 680 8574 ESDA (Electronic Security Distributors Association) Box 17103, Benoni West 1503 | t: (011) 845 4870 | f: +27 (0)11 845 4850 | Chairperson: Leonie Mangold | Vice chairperson: David Shapiro | www.esda.org.za ESIA (Electronic Security Industry Alliance) Box 62436, Marshalltown 2107 | t: +27 (0)11 498 7468 | f: 086 570 8837 | c: 082 773 9308 | e: info@esia. co.za | www.esia.co.za FDIA (Fire Detection Installers Association) Postnet Suite 86, Private Bag X10020, Edenvale, 1610 | t: +27 (0)72 580 7318 | f: 086 518 4376 | e: fdia@fdia. co.za | www.fdia.co.za | President/chairperson: Clive Foord | Secretary: Jolene van der Westhuizen

FFETA The Fire Fighting Equipment Traders Association) Postnet Suite 86, Private Bag X10020, Edenvale 1610 | Chairperson: Lizl Davel | Vice chairperson: Astrid Wright | Administration manager: Rosemary Cowan | t: +27 (0)11 455 3157 | e: ffeta@tiscali.co.za | www.ffeta.co.za FPASA (Fire Protection Association of Southern Africa) Box 15467, Impala Park 1472 | t: +27 (0)11 397 1618 | f: +27 (0)11 397 1160 | e: library@fpasa.co.za | www.fpasa.co.za | General manager: David Poxon GFA (Gate & Fence Association) Box 1338, Johannesburg 2000 | t: +27 (0)11 298 9400 | f: +27 (0)11 838 1522 | Administrator: Theresa Botha HSA (Helderberg Security Association) Box 12857, N1 City Parow 7463 | t: +27 (0)21 511 5109 | f: +27 (0)21 511 5277 | e: info@command.co.za | www.command.co.za | Chairperson: Stephen van Diggele IFE (Institution of Fire Engineers (SA) Treasurer: Andrew Greig | President: Mike Webber | Administrator: Jennifer Maritz | PO Box 1033, Houghton 2041 | t: +27 (0)11 788 4329 | f: +27 (0)11 880 6286 | e: adminstaff@ife.org.za | www.ife.org.za ISA (Insurance Surveyors Association) Box 405, Saxonwold 2132 | Chairperson: Graham Wright | t: +27 (0)11 486 0677 | Vice chairperson: Alan Ventress | Secretary: Alex dos Santos LASA (Locksmiths Association of South Africa) Box 4007, Randburg 2125 | t: +27 (0)11 782 1404 | f: +27 (0)11 782 3699 | e: lasa@global.co.za | www.lasa.co.za | President/chairperson: Alan Jurrius | Secretary: Dora Ryan NaFETI (National Firearms Education and Training Institute) Box 181067, Dalbridge 4014 | Chairperson: MS Mitten | Vice chairperson: Ken Rightford | t: +27 (0)33 345 1669 | c: +27 (0)84 659 1142 NaFTA (National Firearms Training Association of SA) Box 8723, Edenglen 1613 | National chairperson: Peter Bagshawe | t: +27 (0)11 979 1200 | f: +27 (0)11 979 1816 | e: nafta@lantic.net POLSA (Policing Association of Southern Africa) t: +27 (0)12 429 6003 | f: +27 (0)12 429 6609 | Chairperson: Anusha Govender c: +27 (0)82 655 8759 PSSPF (Private Security Sector Provident Fund) Jackson Simon c: +27 (0)72 356 6358 | e: jackson@ psspfund.co.za | www.psspfund.co.za SAESI (Southern African Emergency Services Institute) Box 613, Krugersdorp 1740 | t: +27 (0)11 660 5672 | f: +27 (0)11 660 1887 | President: DN Naidoo | Secretary: SG Moolman | e:info@saesi.com SAIA (South African Insurance Association) Box 30619, Braamfontein 2017 | Chief executive officer: Viviene Pearson | Chairperson:

Lizé Lambrechts t: +27 (0)11 726 5381 | f: +27 (0)11 726 5351 | e: info@saia.co.za SAIDSA (South African Intruder Detection Services Association) | Association House, PO Box 17103, Benoni West 1503 | t: +27 (0)11 845 4870 f: +27 (0)11 845 4850 | e: saidsa@mweb.co.za www.saidsa.co.za | Chairperson: Johan Booysen Secretary: Cheryl Ogle SAIS (South African Institute of Security) Postnet Suite 86, Private Bag X10020, Edenvale, 1610 Chairperson: Dave Dodge | Administration manager: John Baker | t: +27 (0)63 782 7642 | e: info@instituteofsecurity.co.za | www.instituteofsecurity.co.za SAN (Security Association of Namibia) Box 1926, Windhoek, Namibia | Administrator: André van Zyl | t: +264 81 304 5623 | e: adminsan@iway.na SANSEA (South African National Security Employers’ Association) Box 62436, Marshalltown 2107 | Administrators: SIA t: +27 (0)11 498 7468 | f: 086 570 8837 | e: galen@sansea.co.za SAPFED (Southern African Polygraph Federation) President: Flip Vorster | c: +27 (0)82 455 1459 | e: info@sapfed.org | Secretary: Anrich Gouws | e: admin@sapfed.org | www.sapfed.org SAQCC FIRE (South African Qualification Certification Committee) Postnet Suite 86, Private Bag X10020, Edenvale 1610 | Executive committee: Chairperson: Tom Dreyer | Vice chairperson: Duncan Boyes | 1475 Committee: chairperson: Lizl Davel | Vice chairperson: John Caird | D&GS committee: Chairperson: Laura Swart | Vice chairperson: Hans Davel | Administration manager: Rosemary Cowan | t: +27 (0)11 455 3157 | e: saqccfire@tiscali.co.za | www.saqccfire.co.za SARPA (South African Revenue Protection Association) Box 868, Ferndale 2160 | t: +27 (0)11 789 1384 | f: +27 (0)11 789 1385 | President: Naas du Preez | Secretariat: Mr J. Venter, Van der Walt & Co SIA (Security Industry Alliance) Box 62436, Marshalltown 2107 | t: +27 (0)11 498 7468 | Chief executive officer: Steve Conradie | www.securityalliance.co.za SKZNSA (Southern KwaZulu-Natal Security Association) t: +27 (0)39 315 7448 | f: +27 (0)39 315 7324 | Chairperson: Anton Verster c: +27 (0)82 371 0820 VESA (The Motor Vehicle Security Association of South Africa) Box 1468, Halfway House 1685 | t: (011) 315 3588/3655 | f: +27 (0)11 315 3617 | General manager: Adri Smit VIPPASA (VIP Protection Association of SA) Box 41669, Craighall 2024 | t: +27 (0)82 749 0063 | f: 086 625 1192 | e: info@vippasa.co.za | www.vippasa.co.za | Enquiries: Chris Rootman c: +27 (0)82 749 0063 | e: vippasa@protectour.co.za

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