private guards

Director Malatji oversees a team within Asset Protection Services that monitors private guards and in-house security services protecting council assets and reports regularly on their performance.

“I have got a team within the asset protection services, which team's job is to monitor performance of both private guards and in-house security services... They make sure that security guards are in place, security measures that are put in place on specific sites are working... they report back”

Since 2018 the city has been unable to protect all its assets due to financial capacity constraints, leading to coverage of only about half the assets under private security guards and some under in-house security.

“since 2018 to date, the city has not been able to protect all its assets ... out of more than 1000 assets ... we were covering almost 545 sites... financial capacity ... the budget has not been able to enable us to cover every asset...”

Of about 545 guarded sites, most are guarded by private security guards, while a smaller portion are guarded by in-house security.

“out of 545 ... we are utilising private security guards to guard them, and there is some ... that have been guarded by in-house ... 547 are guarded by private guards and 127 are guarded by in-house”