The Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria is an amalgamation of all licensed private security practitioners and companies registered and carrying on business in Nigeria. This followed the formal inauguration of the Board of the Association on 4th September 2014 and was the culmination of years of toil from the advent of the first security companies in Nigeria.
Prior to the first indigenous Private security companies commencing operations in Nigeria, the private security industry in Nigeria was dominated by foreign security companies and other Security Association. In a bid to encourage indigenization in this sector therefore, indigenous companies sprang up in different parts of the country to provide credible competition to their foreign counterparts and on December 15, 1986 the Private Guards Companies Act was passed into law.
The passage of this Act produced a surge in the number of licensed private security companies doing business in Nigeria and these companies; all across the country in different ways, felt the need to have a common platform through which their common interests could be properly projected. Following a National Stakeholders Meeting at the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps Headquarters; (the regulatory body of all private guard companies in Nigeria) in 2009, the then Commandant –General of the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps Dr. Ade Abolurin constituted an interim National Executive Committee that went on to steer the affairs of the nascent association up to its inauguration on 4th September 2014.
Today, the ALPSPN boasts of over 1,000 members across the nation conducting business in various sectors of the private security industry.
The Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria has members drawn out from the following:
- Manned – Guarding
- Electronics and Equipment
- Training & Consultancy and
- Corporate Management
