• 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
- 22.10.2019
Successful launch of CoESS White Paper on the Security Continuum - 18.10.2019
CoESS speaks at EU High-level Counter-UAS Conference - 16.10.2019
European Security Week in Nice – CoESS calls for public-private partnerships
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.