• Best value rather than lowest price
Key messages
• Responsible employers, professional, well trained and motivated staff
• Innovative technology
• Of the people, assets and organisations
• Of the employees working for our companies
• Of society in general, through public-private partnerships
CoESS Committees
• Supporting the EU and national governments in developing legislation
• Fair competition between players
• Ensuring that providers of private security solutions meet the highest quality criteria
Best Value Initiative
• Engaging in a constructive and mutually beneficial dialogue with authorities
• Best practice and ethics
• Communicating clearly and in a transparent way to members and stakeholders
Members
Key Figures
- 23 national associations from 18 EU Member States
- 45,000 private security companies
- 2 million private security guards
- yearly turnover in Europe: over €40 billion.
News
- 15.01.2020
The new European Commission takes office: CoESS follows security and social policies - 06.01.2020
CoESS calls for a revision of Directive 2008/114 for better CIP across Europe - 19.12.2019
Olympic Games 2024 in France: massive recruitment of private security agents "not feasible ...
Best Value Initiative
Discover the manual 'Buying quality private security services', developed by CoESS and UNI-Europa with the financial support of the European Union.