Abstract

This Uganda Standard provides a framework for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving the management of security operations. It provides the principles and requirements for a security operations management system (SOMS). This standard provides a business and risk management framework for organizations conducting or contracting security operations and related activities and functions while demonstrating: a) conduct of professional security operations to meet the requirements of clients and other stakeholders b) accountability to law and respect for human rights c) consistency with voluntary commitments to which it subscribes. This standard is applicable to any organization that needs to: a) establish, implement, maintain and improve an SOMS b) assess its conformity with its stated security operations management policy c) demonstrate its ability to consistently provide services that meet client needs and are in conformance with applicable laws and human rights requirements. (This standard cancels and replaces US 796:2009, Code of conduct and ethics for the private security sector, which has been technically revised). This standard was PUBLISHED on 2016-06-28.