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Cancellation of security steward certification



The local police department of the security steward’s municipality of residence must cancel the security steward certification if the security steward so requests.

Security steward certification must be cancelled altogether or for a fixed period if the security steward

  • on account of essential changes in circumstances, no longer meets the requirements for certification in terms of his or her honesty, reliability or personal characteristics;
  • has been sentenced under a final judgement for an offence that shows him or her to be unsuitable for the job, or if he or she has intentionally acted wrongly to a significant degree as a security steward; or
  • has significantly violated the conditions and restrictions imposed in the security steward certification.
Instead of cancelling the certification, the local police department may issue the security steward with a warning if cancellation would be unreasonable under the circumstances.

A commanding police officer may temporarily cancel security steward certification if the police learn of facts that are likely to lead to full cancellation of security steward certification.

If security steward certification has been cancelled or if grounds exist for temporary cancellation of security steward certification, a police officer may take possession of the security steward identity card in order to hand it over to a commanding police officer, who must within 14 days decide whether security steward certification is cancelled temporarily. A police officer may also take possession of a security steward identity card when security steward certification has been cancelled. To this effect, a frisk may be carried out.

Decisions temporarily cancelling security steward certification remain in force for a maximum of three months. The local police department of the security steward’s municipality of residence may extend the validity period of the decision by a maximum of six months at a time if the security steward is suspected of an offence that is likely to lead to full cancellation of security steward certification.





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