Security Business Audits

LSD’s Compliance Enforcement Unit (‘CEU’) works to identify areas where security businesses are struggling to meet legal requirements and assist these businesses to better understand their responsibilities and comply with the legislation.

The CEU routinely conducts security business audits. Sometimes businesses will be informed of the Unit’s intention to conduct an audit, sometimes they will not. These audits often check the:

• Certificate a business has been issued with under the Business Names Act 1962;
• Certificates of Public Liability;
• Detailed records that businesses are required to keep of their clients and services provided (as per Section 134 and Regulation 55 of the Private
• Security Act 2004 and associated regulations);
• Standard Operating Procedures of a business for accuracy and relevancy to the business conducted;
• Systems in place to ensure the currency of employees’ licences;
  List of employees to assist LSD in notifying individuals of the suspension or cancellation of their licences;
• Nominated person is approved and their details have been supplied to LSD.

The most frequent problems the CEU encounters are that businesses:

• Do not display their License/ Registration certificates where they can be easily seen; and
• Have not updated their standard operating procedures.

On the whole however, businesses do a good job of storing and handling firearms in a safe and secure way.

The CEU would like to remind businesses to:

• Know the legislation that governs their business;
• Keep up to date with legislative changes;
• Keep LSD informed of employee changes;
• Review procedures particularly when seeking to renew your licence;
• Ask LSD questions and seek answers – the web site, LSD newsletters and LSD customer service centre are all available for this purpose.

For more information regarding security business audits emai: licensingservices@police.vic.gov.au

Please mark your email for the attention of the CEU.