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Octavian opens the door to South Africa training centre

The pioneering Octavian Group has announced the launch of a door supervisor training centre in South Africa - the first time a UK qualification in this field will be available overseas.

Octavian Security Training, a division of Octavian Security, has established the training centre in Pretoria to provide the National Certificate for Door Supervisors Qualification.

Jot Engelbrecht, Octavian's operations and training director, is himself from Cape Town in South Africa.

Jot commented: "This is a great achievement for Octavian's training division.  This unique division presents South Africans, who wish to visit the UK to gain work experience in the security industry, the opportunity to attend the course in their own country and will speed up their Security Industry Authority license application process."

Octavian carries out 10-year working history checks of all candidates and requests a police clearance certificate prior to allowing registration on the course, to ensure candidates are eligible to work in the security industry.

Candidates who are successful at the South Africa training school will be employed by Octavian to assist in servicing contracts at offices across Europe, Dubai and Vancouver.

This training division will also be able to assist other security companies with recruiting Security Industry Authority-licensed door supervisors.

Octavian Security Training was established to deliver a specific level of training in accordance with the recommended training syllabus in the British Standard 7499 and recently this has been expanded to provide the National Certificate for Door Supervisors Qualification.

Jot Engelbrecht continued, "The security industry is constantly being criticised for its lack of professionalism and, as a company, Octavian aims to consistently perform to the contrary, positioning professionalism as the keystone of our operation."

Octavian's training division not only continues to ensure the professional development of its own officers, but also allows the company to share its own skills and practices with other commercial organisations and competitive security companies.