Nova Scotia’s new private security licensing law fails to address the industry’s major concerns and will likely repeat the mistakes other provinces made, says a past chair of CSIS for the Atlantic Region.

In many cities, a hodgepodge of different access control and alarm systems has been installed over the years at municipal buildings. Many of these older systems use unwieldy, standalone technology that requires municipal staff and facilities managers to employ a multitude of cards, codes and steps to unlock doors or perform other simple access control functions.