Quality

Quality

  • Best value rather than lowest price
  • Responsible employers, professional, well trained and motivated staff
  • Innovative technology
Best Value Initiative
Safety

Safety

  • Of the people, assets and organisations
  • Of the employees working for our companies
  • Of society in general, through public-private partnerships

Vision and objectives
Compliance

Compliance

  • 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
Key messages
Trust

Trust

  • 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
EU Committees
Quality

Quality

  • Best value rather than lowest price
  • Responsible employers, professional, well trained and motivated staff
  • Innovative technology
Best Value Initiative
Safety

Safety

  • Of the people, assets and organisations
  • Of the employees working for our companies
  • Of society in general, through public-private partnerships

Vision and objectives
Compliance

Compliance

  • 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
Key messages
Trust

Trust

  • 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
EU Committees

Key Figures

  • 23 national associations from 17 EU Member States
  • 45,000 private security companies
  • 2 million private security guards
  • yearly turnover in Europe: over €40 billion.

News

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Public Procurement

CoESS and UNI Europa call for a revision of the EU Public Procurement Directive to fight abnormally low tenders in essential services like private security.

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Labour Shortages

What are effective ways to manage labour shortages in the private security services in a sustainable way across Europe? The EU Social Partners, CoESS and UNI Europa, provide answers.

Guidelines

CoESS and Euralarm - Joint Cybersecurity Guidelines 2019

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.

Cyber-Physical Security

CoESS and the International Security Ligue make recommendations for enhanced cyber-physical security of Critical Infrastructure and raise awareness of hybrid threats.

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