Mexico’s private security industry accounts for 1.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the midst of challenges that require a paradigm shift to counter new violent, economic and technological developments, security experts said Tuesday at a forum. .
In the Mexican economy, private security is involved in over 900,000 direct jobs among over 5,400 registered companies across the country.
At a forum organized by United Security Groups for Mexico (Asume), the promoter National Chamber of the Private Security Industryexhibitors, professionals, legislators and private sector representatives agreed on the need to change the care model public safety in the country.
All this in the middle insecurity in cities and on highways, social polarization, new channels such as cybercrime and the use of innovative technological tools as major challenges in the industry by private companies and the Mexican government itself.
The need to address in the short term through professionalization and training insecurity in the country was also considered in order to encourage more investment and take advantage of the phenomenon of shifting supply chains or “mooring“.
MP Juanita Guerra of the Movement for National Revival (Brunette) pointed out that the first step in building a new model of public security was the inclusion of the concept of “private security” in the Mexican Constitution, which establishes a provision for how private security services should be coordinated with federal, state and municipal.
However, Armando Zúñiga, president of Asume, noted that this paradigm shift also requires the approval of four more laws: the General Private Security Act, the Cyber Security Act, the Anti-Extortion Act, and the Public Vehicle Registry Act.
The business leader stated that Private security more relevant in the country at the time of investment, availability violence Across the country, the need to protect assets and goods, which he spoke of, “makes it essential that private security be present in all businesses, companies and industries in the country.”
“It is important that our companies become professionals from universities in their management and management,” he added.
In his speech, Jorge Peñunuri Pantoja, President of the Commission for Security and Justice of the Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic (coparmex), recalled that the most recent National Urban Public Safety Survey shows that 62.3% of the population aged 18 and over consider life in their city unsafe.
At the end of May last year, according to the report of the Peace Index in Mexico, it turned out that the price of violence for its economy amounted to 4.6 trillion pesos (268,000 million dollars), which is 18.3% of the Mexican gross domestic product (GDP).
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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