Government to crack down on security industry

THE Government yesterday launched a crackdown on cowboy security firms and thuggish club bouncers.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell told the new Private Security Authority that the unregulated nature of the nightclub security situation required their urgent attention. Sweeping powers to regulate the security industry have been given to the new statutory body.

“It is fair to say that the current position where any person can work as a so-called ‘bouncer’ with little or no regard to matters of public safety is totally unacceptable,” said Mr McDowell when speaking at the authority’s new headquarters in Tipperary town.