Asset Protection Service

The Asset Protection Service (APS) has limited personnel, with only seven regional supervisors, and the department through Commissioner Faro deployed 54 Metro Police officers to conduct random site visits and inspections on a shift basis, ensuring compliance via penalty clauses if security guards do not meet requirements such as proper uniform or PSIRA appointment cards.

“in APS is the asset protection... Commissioner Faro, we have decided to deploy 54 Metro Police officers to the same functions... as per shift basis, that they actually visit all sites and the sites are randomly visited and OB entries are made... there is a penalty clauses if there is non-compliance... if a security guard does not have uniform or security guard does not have a PSIRA appointment card... there is penalty clauses that is being levied”