“Mr Watts has over twenty years management and business development experience across a diverse range of industries both in New Zealand and abroad, including European Services Director for Network Associates and Global Projects Director for RSA Security.”

“His involvement in all stages of business evolution from start-ups to large multinationals and his wealth of experience in marketing strategy and business acquisitions and mergers will add value to our organisation.”

Mr Watts has held directorships in the; Security, IT, Health, Sports Nutrition and Fitness industries and has a management degree from Auckland University .   

2.  Message from our new Executive Officer

Firstly I would like to say how nice it is to be back in and onboard with the NZSA.                

With the global economy showing signs of recovery and the New Zealand security industry poised for significant growth,  the next  12 -18 months will be a period of considerable change for the NZSA.        

Key on the agenda will be how the NZSA is marketed not only to the security industry but more importantly to the consumer, culminating in stronger recognition of the NZSA and greater demand for your products and services. 

As NZSA members you will also see many additional benefits along with improved auditing and accreditation processes aimed at increasing the professionalism of the security industry as a whole. 

I look forward to meeting many of you at this year’s annual security conference, the date of which will be confirmed in the comings weeks.  

Regards   

Greg Watts
Executive Officer    

3.  MITO Update 
 

The Association met with MITO , the Training Organisation, for Vehicle Installers and a proposed training programme has been developed that enables training and assessment for Vehicle Installers in the following National Certificate.

National Certificate in Motor Industry (Vehicle Servicing) with strand in Vehicle Security.

This level 2 programme is designed for new entrants who enrol in a MITO apprenticeship. Provision has also been made for entry into the programme by those who have undertaken Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) or Recognition of Current Competence (RCC) and for those employees who have already been awarded a Trade Certificate or National Certificate in a related occupation. 

Core programme and order of progression.   

This MITO vehicle Security Training Programme consists of 2 modules, which must be completed in sequence.  
 

The modules. 
 

Each module outlines a group of unit standard based packages that form a natural stage in the apprentices learning and assessment. The modules follow a logical sequence from a lower to a higher complexity of knowledge and skill.  
 

Compulsory Unit Standards - All compulsory unit standards in level 2 National Certificate is included in the programme.  
 

Elective Unit Standards - All elective unit standard choices have been pre selective for this programme and provide a wide ranging skill base for Vehicle Security technicians. Sufficient unit standards have been included to meet the minimum requirements of the National Certificates.  
 

Theory Training Delivery - There are distance learning packages in this programme. Some distance learning packages may be replaced by the learner with off job training. 

Practical training delivery and assessment - There are particular requirements that apply to the delivery and assessment of the practical assessments packages.

Off job training delivery and assessment - All units can be completed through either the distance learning packages or the practical assessment packages.

MITO is proposing to offer a structured training programme that meets the needs of new entrants to the industry in a Vehicle Security workshop environment. It will also meet the needs of employees who have completed a related Trade Certificate or National Certificate.   

4. Security and Insurance

The Security industry and the Insurance Industry share common goals. Although they may have different reasons for those goals, they are shared, none the less.  

The insurance industry pays out massive amounts of money each year for burglary claims. These can occur in all sorts of locations, from someone’s vehicle, home or business - even while walking down the street. Burglars are becoming more and more brazen in their attempts to take things that don’t belong to them. Our personal safety is now, more than ever, a major concern. 10 years ago, the thought of someone breaking into your home may not have been as frightening as it is today. Drugs are a major driver of that fear. Several years ago ‘P’ was almost unheard of unless you were in the drug trade. This has to affect the way that the Security and Insurance industries think. The type of equipment that is installed into vehicles, houses and commercial premises and the advice you give, needs to be reflective of protecting people and property in our current society.  

Property conservation is obviously important, but personal safety and well being is even more important. As security professionals the advice that you give to people is taken with the utmost respect from your customers. Being a member of the NZSA quantifies that respect and gives it credibility.

As an insurer IAG recommends that our customers install equipment that is fit for purpose. We also recommend that it is done by an NZSA member. We see this as a very important quality control issue as we are unable to inspect all our customers’ vehicles, houses and business locations. The use of NZSA members gives us that peace of mind.

Regards  

Brendon McLaughlin
NZSA Board Member representing IAG Insurance  

5.  Members input into the NZSA Upfront E-Newsletter is welcomed

The Association welcomes members to submit articles of interest for the monthly Upfront E-newsletter.  If you would like to submit an article, please forward it to paula@security.org.nz by the 12^th of each month.  Please note: articles will be vetted for suitability purposes.

If there are people within your organization who don’t currently receive the E-Newsletter or there is someone who you think would be interested in receiving a copy please email their details to paula@security.org.nz so that they can be added to our distribution list.

6.  NZSA New Members 
 

The Association would like to extend a warm welcome to the following new members  
 

Corporate Members 
 

Alligator Security Ltd 
Fear Free Ltd 
Principal Risk Services Ltd
Warden Consulting Ltd
Allsafe Security Group Ltd
Key Guard Ltd 
 

Vehicle Car Alarms Members  

Pro Tect Auto Ltd   

Contractor Cleaner Members

Jalpa Investments Ltd 
Ganesh Traders Ltd 
Janardan & Urmila Gounder 
Hua CHai & Si Li
Jignesh kumar & Jigna Shah 
Yuan Yuan Liu 
Longxin Du & Lijun Chen 
Nipun & Jagath Nambukara Gamage
Rachel Dempsey
Kwong Chui & Dan Wang 
Ashish & Digna Patel 
Yubib He 
Taiki Ikapoti & Tapania Taiki
Gary & Marie Amy
Danish & Aijita Sharma
Gerry & Rosario Reyes
Adam Hodge
Shailesh & Tarika Gounder
Judith Thompson
Satendra Kumar Ltd
Victor & Cheryl Mudawarima
Madiline Pardoe & Angela Clune
Archey Mulhane
Salih Khaled
Shiu Wati & Shivneel Nada
Nivitesh Kumar
Paysmartly Ltd
Brian Washington
Agnes & Christine Vasquez
Senita :& Veronica Fakava
Kathyn Clark
Harry & Genevra Ficks
Robert Temesvari
Ashween Kumar & Anjana Chand
Chang Peng Dai & Lu Chen 
Adi & Phul Narayan
Micjoy Ltd  

 
Kind regards

Paula Whittaker
Office Manager