Private Security Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Accreditation of teachers in training, updating and training centers for Private Security personnel.
To accredit the pedagogical capacity and degree of knowledge of the people who are going to teach the Private Security staff.
Requirements and conditions
- Nationality: European Union.
- Recipients: -In addition to nationals of EU countries, nationals of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area are also admitted, or the provisions of the legislation on the Community regime pursuant to RD 240/2007 of 16 February apply to them. Open a new window. External link.
- Academic Requirements:
- Be in possession of a higher university degree, when the subject in question is integrated as teaching of such character within the general educational system.
- In the case of subjects not included in the public general education system, such accreditation will be issued by the Director-General of the Police, unless the teaching was specifically related to the training of students aspiring to private guards in the field and their specialties in which case it will be issued by the General Directorate of the Civil Guard. To issue this accreditation, the pedagogical capacity and the quality and degree of knowledge characteristic of the applicants must be taken into account, preferably expressed through their publications, previous teaching activity and in the exercise of their profession.
- In any case, the practical experience acquired by the applicants in the exercise of their functions directly related to security shall be taken into account for the purposes of accreditation. (ORDER INT/318/2011, of 1 February).
Classes and typologies
- Legal area accreditation.
- Socio-professional area accreditation.
- Technical and professional area accreditation.
- Accreditation module communications systems.
- Accreditation module protection against fires.
- Accreditation module means of detection (X-rays).
- Accreditation module first aid.
- Accreditation module physical preparation.
- Accreditation module personal defense.
- Accreditation module armament and shooting.
- Accreditation module protection and security.
- Accreditation module explosives.
- Accreditation module canine guides.
- Accreditation module airport security.
- Accreditation of port security module.
- Accreditation module surveillance on ships.
Period of validity
- Permanent, provided that the "Academic Qualification" of the applicant persists.
How to carry out the procedure
Face-to-face. Go
- By Request-Instance. Required documentation (original and photocopy) for its direct delivery and compulsa in units of the General Directorate of the Police.
- In person at the Private Security Section of the National Police Training and Development Division and National Police Stations.
Documentation
- Personal Instance model specifying the module or Area, subject or specific subject for the one/s that requests accreditation.
- Proof of payment Taxes model 7900, code 015.
- Passport / D.N.I. / N.I.F / Residence Card
- Homologated Degree.
- THEY WILL PROVIDE PEDAGOGICAL MEMORY OF CAPACITY, specific for each subject, and CURRICULUM, compressive of the knowledge related to the requested subject, the applicants of the Modules or Areas not specifically collected in the General Public Education System (point 2 of Annex 2 of Order INT/318/2011 of 1 February).
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Form of initiation: At the request of the interested party.
- Type of procedure: Authorizations, Licenses and Concessions.
- Subject of the procedure: EDUCATION and CITIZEN SECURITY
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- By Own Competition:
- Directorate General of Police
- Director-General of the Police (by delegation, the Chief of the National Police Training and Development Division).
- By Own Competition:
- Maximum period for resolving and notifying:
- 3 months.
- The resolution of the procedure puts an end to the administrative route
- Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Dismissed
- Regulations governing administrative silence: LAW 39/2015, of 1 October on the Common Administrative Procedure of Administrations. Open a new window. External link. Royal Decree 1778/1994, of 5 August, Opens new window. External link. Section A. (BOE No. 199, of August 20).
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Resources that can be interposed:
- Contentious - Administrative
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Contentious Court - Administrative.
- Central Courts of Contentious Adtvo. ; Adtvo Contentious Rooms. of the High Court of Justice.
- Litigation Room-Adtvo. of the National High Court; Trial Chamber - Adtvo. of the Supreme Court.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Potestative of Replenishment
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Organ that dictated the act.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 1 month.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Contentious - Administrative
Regulations:
- ORDER INT/318/2011, of 1 February, on private security personnel. Open a new window. External link.
- Resolution of 12 November 2012 of the Secretary of State for Security determining the training programmes for private security personnel. Open a new window. External link.
- Resolution of 6 June 2012 establishing the Valuation Committee.Opens a new window. External link.
- LAW 5/2014, of 4 April, on Private Security. Open a new window. External link.
- LAW 39/2015, of October 1, 2015, Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 1778/1994, of 5 August, Opens new window. External link. In accordance with LAW 30/1992, certain procedural rules, section A. (BOE No. 199, of August 20).
- ROYAL DECREE 2364/1994, OF 9 DECEMBER, APPROVING THE PRIVATE SECURITY REGULATION Opens new window. External link. (BOE NO. 8 OF 10 JANUARY 1995).RESOLUTION OF 13 JANUARY 1997.
- DIRECTIVE Directives 89/48 and 92/51 of the E.C.
- LAW 14/2000 ON FISCAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL MEASURES. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 1123/2001 Private security.- The Regulation of Private Security approved by Royal Decree 2364/1994 of 9 December is partially modified. Open a new window. External link.
- RESOLUTION of 6 October 1997 of the PGD, partially amending that of 28 November 1995, on the composition of the Commission for the Evaluation of Teachers in Private Security Training and Refresher Centres. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 240/2007 on free movement and residence in Spain of citizens of the Member States of the European Union and of other States parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 4/2008 amending certain articles of the Private Security Regulations. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 938/1997 completes the regulation of the requirements of authorization of security companies and those of habilitation of Private Security personnel. Open a new window. External link.
- RESOLUTION of January 13, 1997, of the General Directorate of the Police, regarding training, in the field of Private Security. Open a new window. External link.
- JUDGMENT Court of Justice of the European Communities of 26 January 2006.
- TREATY AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT Treaty of the European Union.
- Code of the procedure: 111340
Models of forms
- Instance for request of accreditation of professor of the centers of training, updating and training of private security personnel. Open a new window
- General Accreditation Requirements. Open a new window
- Professional modules of prior and specific training. Teachers - evaluation criteria. Open a new window
- Fee, amount and place of payment
- View amount of fees
- In favor of the Public Treasury, in the collaborating Banks or Savings Banks; restricted account of the State Agency of the Tax Administration (Copy "Copy for the Administration"). The aforementioned model will be provided in the Police Stations and must be filled in with the corresponding data.
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