The city police have registered criminal cases against proprietors of 10 security agencies, which run without licence in different parts of Madhya Pradesh and banned their operation in the State.
A case under Sections of IPC and Private Security Agency Act, 2005 has been registered them in respective districts, a top police officer said on Friday.
It may be noted that the private security agencies are allotted licence and are monitored by Additional Director General of Police (State Industrial Security Force and Private Security Agency) at State Police Headquarters.
The department had launched a campaign to find security agencies without valid licence during which Security Solutions Services, Vindh Security Services, Buland Security Services, Raghuvanshi Industrial Services and SR Security Services of Singroli, Chetan Security Services of Indore, Defence Security Services and A-One of Bhopal, Dirt Security and Investigation services of Jhabua were found operational without a valid licence.
A case against these security agencies have been registered in their respective districts and investigation has been started.
Additional Director General of Police MP Dwivedi said that the apart from these security agencies his department has obtained information of private security agencies in other districts also and action against those agencies would be done soon.
Dwivedi said that private security agencies have to obtain licence from Additional Director General of Police (State Industrial Security Force and Private Security Agency) State Police Headquarters which is mandatory for all the private security agencies.
Private security agencies working without valid licence are involved in recruiting security guards violating the rules and without providing essential training to the security guards. Trained and skilled security guards could be provided only after following the rules of obtaining valid license to the people.