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Security Reforms: More Private Guards Now In Yellow Uniforms

One month to the end of the one-year grace period given security companies to implement the September 16, 2016 presidential decree, changes are slow-paced.

Denizens of the city of Yaounde are watching with surprise and appreciation the gradual but now visible change of uniform worn by agents of private security firms to bright yellow, though with different designs. In front of corporate, institutional, commercial and even some public structures on August 3, 2016, more security guards were seen in the new colour.

The collective move by private security firms is in application of the September 16, 2015 Presidential Decree  laying down modalities for the application of the September 10, 1997 law governing activities of private security companies as amended by the December 23, 2014 law. The private security companies were given one year to comply with the new exigencies that included obtaining a license before operating, establishing job contracts for workers, ensuring health and social insurance cover for staff and limiting numbers of agents to 1,000 per region and 5,000 nationwide.

One month to the deadline, officials of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation say the application of the measures is timid. Reports on the pace of the implementation are awaited from Senior Divisional Officers who were assigned by the Territorial Administration Minister. An upcoming awareness campaign will be followed by harder measures against companies operating out of the law.

To prevent government’s sanctions, the headquarters of several major companies visited by Cameroon Tribune on August 3, 2016 such as G4S Security Services Cameroon and ESSOKA SECURITY and AFRICA SECURITY had already implemented several of the measures. At D.A.K. GARDIENNAGE security company, officials confided that measures have been taken to ensure that the company meets the deadline.

 

 

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