Today, professor and vice-president of the Faculty of Security Marjan Gjurovski and the President of the Private Security Chamber Verica Mileska-Stefanovska, informally promoted the idea of the introduction of private security in ARM facilities and the Ministry of Defense.
Security agencies would replace army guards through a public-private partnership, Gjurovski and Mileska-Stefanovska announced, and through the same model could regulate the provision of the entire critical infrastructure.
Gjurovski used the opportunity to talk about public-private partnership as one of the eight pillars of security, that is, priorities in security system reform, at today’s promotion of the faculty of security and debate on security challenges. He stressed that a law on integral security is needed, which would include private security.
The Ministry of Defense today did not comment on the announcement, but pointed to the Strategic Defense Review (SOP), a defense development document that was adopted in its second edition last year. The SOP mentions this possibility in four places, as one of the measures for “divesting non-core activities”, ie releasing the military from all functions that are not vital.
“The 2004 Strategic Defense Review was followed by significant out-sourcing and divestment of functions, but it is apparent that there are additional opportunities for the outsourcing of activities currently undertaken by Defense personnel. These include the guarding of military sites, which at present is performed by ARM personnel, and does not represent the best use of trained soldiers”, reads the section 8 titled, Defense Resources in the Review.
