CerticCS is a security-specific organisation that provides certification schemes for security companies involved in the installation of electronic security systems, as well as the providers of security guarding, Cash-in-Transit and alarm monitoring services.
Essentially, CerticCS offers an alternative route to those security companies seeking approval for the Private Security Authority’s (PSA) Private Security Contractors’ Licence and An Garda Siochana Intruder Alarm Policy. Companies will be audited to the appropriate Irish standards by CerticCS inspectors. All of those inspectors are experienced industry auditors who can instil confidence within customers that the companies they ask to provide security solutions are fully audited, inspected and approved.
CerticCS is a trading division of Insight Certification (of which the NSI is also a trading division), and has been providing specialist approval and certification to security companies in the UK for over 35 years. It’s one of the UK Government-approved assessing bodies for the Approved Contractor Scheme. CerticCS is also the sole assessing body for the Irish Security Industry Association’s (ISIA) Qualsec scheme.
Additional choice for security companies
Speaking at the official launch, which took place yesterday at Dublin’s Clontarf Castle Hotel, Geraldine Larkin – the PSA’s chief executive – commented: “I welcome CerticCS as a new specialist certification body providing additional choice for security companies seeking evidence that they have attained appropriate standards. CerticCS brings experience to the Irish security environment. I believe the improvement of certification body choice can only benefit the development of standards in the security industry.”
NSI chief executive Andrew White, who’s also the CerticCS chief executive, added: “We’ve been successfully operating security approval and certification schemes in the UK for many years. It’s the skills and experience we have developed over the years, along with the encouragement of our security industry colleagues, that makes us best positioned for playing an integral role in developing standards in the interest of the Irish security industry and its customers.”
