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Security firms demand:

Ombudsman to overrule obstructing bureaucrats

Chairman and Managing Director, Security Consultants and Investigators International (Pvt) Ltd. and Past President, Industrial Security Foundation, Sri Lanka, F. N. de Alwis in a public statement has called for the appointment of an ombudsman to overrule obstructing bureaucrats.

The text of the statement:

President Maithripala Sirisena has declared at various business fora and public meetings that his Government encourages investment and provide incentives to locals and foreigners to invest in the private sector to create more employment, provide incentives to entrepreneurs to increase government revenue and thereby implement development policies and counter the cost of living

A gazette notification published intentionally or unintentionally has caused an impediment to many bonafide security organisations who are venturing out to upgrade the standard of industrial security with investors from foreign countries. Gazette Notification No. 1737/9 of December 20, 2011 debars foreigners investing above 40% in an existing security company.

If foreigners are permitted to invest in this country in the banking, hospitality, IT, advertising, training, manufacturing, airlines and shipping, one cannot understand why industrial security must not be permitted to progress ensuring that they contribute toward the sophistication and development of the trade which will eventually bring greater benefits in terms of money, equipment and knowledge and sophistication in the systems and methods to counteract crime.

The President, the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers who are knowledgeable will, I am sure, not permit bureaucrats to obstruct their vision in developing the country while encouraging foreign investment.

An effective mechanism consisting of a team of experts must ensure that the economic policy of the Government and its vision is not nullified. A team with power to overrule the obstructing bureaucrats in the form of an ombudsman with easy access to the President and the Prime Minister and take decisions with speed is the best solution.

All security companies registered under the Ministry of Defence should have equal opportunity to have foreign partners to develop industrial security, as some companies were permitted to operate with foreign partners before the Gazette notification.

It is unfortunate that the bureaucracy always obstructs the development and progress of the country creating impediments and causing frustration in those willing to invest having proved their bonafides.

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