The services aspects such as planning and design, engineering, installation and handover, maintenance and repair of fire safety and/or security systems are covered by CEN-CENELEC/JTC 4 ‘Services for fire and security systems’. This committee's standards set out requirements for quality of services supplied by security companies and the competencies of their involved staff responsible for the planning and design, engineering, installation and handover, maintenance and repair of fire safety and security systems.
CEN/TC 263 ‘Secure storage of cash, valuables and data media’ is the reference technical committee for the development of standards related to the performance of products, such as safes and strong rooms, data cabinets, maintenance of ATMs to ensure secure storage of cash, valuable and data media.
CEN/TC 325 ‘Crime prevention though building, facility and area design’ standards provide guidance on security levels, building and area layout, application of construction elements, roads and pavements. The standards may be applied to new and significantly refurbished buildings, facilities and areas. The standards will not deal with building products and security systems components.
While societal security is a national competence of the EU Member states, the recent events such as natural disasters or terrorist attacks showed that European society is inherently vulnerable to threats and that law enforcement capabilities related to preparedness or response have been heavily challenged.
CEN/TC 391 ‘Societal and citizen security’ was established to define good practice and guidance documents on management of CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear substances) and explosives, disaster preparedness, emergency and crisis management and critical infrastructure protection and resilience. Such standards can help security end-users to develop and implement capabilities to create risk-informed priorities and to better protect citizens, assets, and organizations.
Private security services represent an additional complementary partner in total security management. Private security organizations provide services to an increasing number of private and public customers ranging from public institutions to nuclear plants, airports, critical infrastructure facilities, inter-modal transport hubs, public transport stations. The European standards published by CEN/TC 439 ‘Private security services’ set out benchmarks on the performance and professionalism of the security providers that are operating on the European market.
