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Security Management Courses In South Africa:

What is Security Management?

Security management professionals are responsible for ensuring that procedures for all security-related issues are in place and regularly updated. They are also responsible for planning security programmes, directing a company's total physical security, providing advice and assistance on request, monitoring systems and staying up to date on the latest technical advances in security-related equipment. Our security management course provides all the knowledge necessary to assess risk and determine and manage security programmes.

What you will learn in our Security Management Course

Defining the role of security

To define security management we need to ask the following questions: What protective measures are available? Who provides them? Who is responsible for planning and executing these procedures? Where do the roles of private and public police overlap, and where do they diverge? What are the particular hazards for which private security is held responsible, and how are threats deemed sufficient to justify protective procedures?

Security functions

Security practices and procedures cover a broad spectrum of activities designed to eliminate or reduce the full range of potential hazards (loss, damage, or injury).

These protection measures may include, but are not limited to:

• Building and perimeter protection by means of barriers, fences, walls, and gates; protected openings; lighting; and surveillance (guards).
• Intrusion and access control by means of door and window security, locks and keys, security containers (files, safes, and vaults), visitor and employee identification programmes, package controls, parking security and traffic controls, inspections, and guard posts and patrols.
• Alarm and surveillance systems.
• Fire prevention and control, including evacuation and fire response programmes, extinguishing systems and alarm systems.
• Emergency and disaster planning.
• Prevention of theft and pilferage by means of personnel screening, background investigations, procedural controls, and polygraph and PSE (Psychological Stress Evaluator) investigations.
• Accident prevention and safety.
• Enforcement of crime- or loss-related rules, regulations and policies

The role of Law Enforcement

Security officers and the police may, in certain circumstances, perform the same functions for the same individuals or organisations, e.g. a law enforcement officer might be assigned to protect someone who has been threatened while a private bodyguard may be hired to perform the same protective function.

Police commonly perform patrol functions, which include checking the external premises of stores or manufacturing facilities. This is also one of the major activities of private security.

The difference is that private security functions are essentially client-orientated while police enforcement functions are community-oriented.

Another key distinction is the possession and exercise of police powers (that is, the power of arrest). The vast majority of private security personnel have no police powers; they act as private citizens. In some jurisdictions, "special officer" status is granted by statute or ordinance. This includes limited power of arrest in specified areas or premises.

The security manager's role in the organisation

In its organisational functions, security encompasses four basic activities with varying degrees of importance:

• Managerial, including management functions common to managers of all departments within any organisation, e.g. planning, organising, employing, leading, supervising, and innovating.
• Administrative, which involves budget and financial supervision, office administration, establishing policies governing security matters, developing systems and procedures, developing training programmes for security personnel, and providing of communication and liaison between departments in security-related matters.
• Preventive, including supervising guards; patrols; fire and safety personnel; inspecting restricted areas; auditing performance, appearance, understanding, and competence of security personnel; controlling traffic; and inspecting the condition of all security equipment such as alarms, lights, fences, doors, windows, locks, barriers, safes, and communication equipment.
• Investigative, which involves security clearances, investigation of all losses or violations of company regulations, inspections, audits, liaison with the police and fire departments, and classified documents.

Who will benefit from our Security Management Course

Our Security Management course will benefit anyone currently working in the security industry and who wants a promotion, as well as students who can't afford to go to university but who want to the knowledge and information to secure good jobs in the industry.

What award will I have after I have completed my Security Management Course?

The Oxbridge Academy Security Management Diploma is a career-orientated skills programme which is provider developed and assessed. The diploma is issued by Oxbridge Academy and endorsed by the South African Institute of Management (SAIM). After completion of this diploma the student will show competence in the area of Security Management.

We also offer the following provider programmes that are well suited to this area of study.

Skills Diploma Safety Management (DIP4039-08)