QUALIFICATIONS OF SECURITY GUARDS
1. A Filipino citizen
2. At least high school graduate
3. Physically and mentally fit
4. At least 18 years old but not more than 50 years old
5. Must not have been disqualified under Section 2, Rule II Penal Provision of 2003
6. Must have undergone Pre-Licensing Training Course / Basic Security Guards Course
a. Veterans and military personnel not dishonourably discharged from the service
for the last ten years
b. Graduates of ROTC / CHDF, Criminology Graduates
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF PRIVATE DETECTIVES
1. Degree-Holder – Law
2. Holder of a degree in BS Criminology
3. Graduate of Criminal Investigation
4. Advance ROTC / CMT graduate
UNIFORM, EQUIPMENT AND PARAPHERNALIA
1. Service shirt (tuck-in) for guards / Bush jacket for officers
2. Service trousers / pants
3. Pershing cap or oversea cap
4. Ornament and patches
a. National badge
b. Cap device
c. Regulation buckle with belt
d. Collar device
e. Name cloth
f. Agency patch
g. PADPAO patch
POWERS AND DUTIES OF WATCHMEN AND SECURITY GUARDS, GENERAL SCOPE AND
PRIVATE DETECTIVE WORK

1. A watchman or security guard shall watch or secure the property of the person, firm or
establishment with whom he or his agency has a contract of watchman or security service.
Such service shall not, however, extend beyond the property or command of said person,
firm or establishment except when required by the latter in accordance with the terms of their
contract to escort big sums of money or valuables.
2. Arrest by the Security Guard, Watchman or Private Detective.
A watchman, or private detective is not a peace officer and is not therefore clothed with
police authority. However, he may effect arrest or apprehension under any of the following
circumstances:
a. When the person to be arrested has committed, is actually committing, or is
about to commit an offense in his presence;
b. When an offense has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable ground to
believe that the person to be arrested has committed it;
c. When the person to be arrested is a prisoner who has escaped from penal
establishment or place where he is serving a final judgment or temporarily confined while his
case is pending or has escaped while being transferred from confinement to another.
(Section 6, Rule 1133, Rules of Court).
3. Method of Arrest.
Any watchman, security guard or private detective making arrest shall immediately turn
over the person arrested to the nearest police officer, police outpost or headquarters for
custody and/or appropriate action, or he may, without unnecessary delay and within the time
prescribed in Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, take the person arrested,
to proper court or judge for such action as they need to take. (Section 17, Ibid).
4. Search Without Warrant
Any watchman, security guard, or private detective may, incident to arrest, search the
person so arrested in the presence of at least two witnesses. He may also search
employees of the person, firm or establishment with which he or his agency has a contract of
private detective, watchman or security services, when such search is required by the very
nature of the business of the person, firm or establishment.
5. General Scope of Detective Work
A private detective operates on a covert type of mission on a specific confidential order
issued by his agency. The nature of his mission may depend on the contract between the
client and the detective agency.
a. Character check of persons
b. Locating missing persons
c. Surveillance work and such
d. Other detective work as may become the subject matter of contract between the
agency and its clients provided the same is not contrary to the law, public order, public policy
and good customs.
PERSONAL QUALITIES OF OUR GUARDS
1. ABILITY

The knowledge and skill acquired during training to be used practically and astutely, and
through experience, be able to react to different abnormal situations.
2. ALERTNESS
This is the primary and most important quality and virtue of a security guard which shall
lead him to a successful performance of duty and mission. Security for life and the protection
of properties is entirely in his hands.
3. APPEARANCE
The first impression can be one of the most important factors in the success of crime
prevention and deterrence. A felon can be discouraged to go ahead with his plans from the
outset upon seeing a snappy and well-dressed security personnel in his post. Appearance
tells a lot about the capability of an individual.
4. ATTITUDE
Professionalism demands that one should know respect and good manners before he
may be accorded due respect to himself. Enthusiasm towards a vocation in which one is in,
will ultimately result to success, and glowing sense of achievement, usefulness and value.
5. COURAGE
As a quasi-police personality, he should display fortitude in facing physical and personal
troubles in line of duty. Moral courage is a must. The transmitting of ticklish reports entails
great discipline and courage.
6. COURTESY
A proper approach in dealing with other fellow human beings will almost effect the
successful performance of security service. He must be kind, considerate and tactful in
giving and receiving orders and asking and directing proceedings. Greet people warmly and
pleasantly. Accept insignificant requests with politeness and give out explanations. The us of
the words “please,” “may I,” and “thank you” is all for the upliftment of one’s own personality.
7. HONESTY
Complete trust should be won by security guards from their clients and superiors.
Trustworthiness for an individual is a virtue that should be envied by every security officer.
8. LOYALTY
He must be ready and willing always to do service to the company he is working for and
to his job. Extreme confidentiality should be practiced with dedication and consistency.
9. PERSONALITY
A gentleman with an acceptable personality means that one should be careful in dealing with
people and events. The way one wears his clothes, how he looks and projects himself, how
he acts and reacts personifies him as a successful person.
ETHICS
1. DUTY.

He shall at all times be willing and ready to perform and render service for his agency’s
interest in accordance with the contract entered and stipulated with the client or customer.
2. OBEDIENCE.
He shall be truthful and sincere in following the Laws and Statutes of the land and in
pursuance of the Rules and regulations of his agency and those of his client he’s supposed
to protect and secure.
3. TRUST.
He shall never betray in any manner every confidential matter he is entrusted to keep in his
performance of his personal and official duties.
4. PROFESSIONALISM.
He shall not let personal interest and emotion, prejudices and familiarity influence his
decisions and judgments as an official security guard.
5. INTEGRITY.
He shall never compromise his basic functions as a law and order enforcing personality by
unnecessary associations with criminal elements and other lawless people, to the detriment
of his client’s interest; rather, he shall uphold the laws of the Constitution.
6. CAPABILITY.
He shall always try to perform his duties and responsibilities with the aid of skill and
knowledge attained during his training and his experience.
7. SNAPPINESS.
He shall try to portray the appearance of confidence and alertness through the wearing of
proper and neat uniform and other paraphernalia as a symbol of trustworthiness.
8. ALLEGIANCE.
He shall forever pledge allegiance of loyalty to his government and to his agency and
indirectly to his employer/company he is rendering service to.
9. DILIGENCE.
He shall understand and apply wholeheartedly all the Rules and Regulations and Policies of
the agency and that of the client.
10. COURTESY.
He shall exhibit proper decorum and courtesy in approaching and dealing with other people,
being respectful to officers and superiors with proper execution of the military salute.
11. NEATNESS.
He shall report for duty in proper uniform , neat in total appearance.
12. APTITUDE.
He shall observe and put into heart the Rules and Regulations as in the use of his service
firearm.
GENERAL ORDERS
1. To take charge of the post and all company properties in view;
2. To walk during my tour of duty in a military manner, always on alert, and observing

everything within sight or hearing;
3. To report all violations of all orders instructed to enforce;
4. To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guard house I am stationed;
5. To quit my post when properly relieved;
6. To receive, obey and pass on to the relieving guard all orders from company officers;
7. To talk to no one except in line of duty;
8. To sound or call the alarm in case of fire or disorder;
9. To call the superior officer in any case not covered by instruction;
10. To salute all company officials, superiors in the agency, ranking public officials
and commissioned officers of the AFP and PNP;
11. To be especially watchful at night and during the time of challenging, to challenge all
persons on or near his post, & to allow no one to pass or loiter without proper authority.
CODE OF ETHICS
1. As Security Agent his fundamental duty is to serve the interest or mission of the
Agency in compliance with contract entered into with the clients or customers of
the agency he is supposed to serve.
2. He shall be honest in his thoughts and deeds both in his personal and official
actuation, obeying the laws of the land and the regulations prescribed by his
agency and those established by the company he is supposed to protect.
3. He shall not reveal any confidential matter that is confined to him as a security guard
and such other matters imposed upon him by law.
4. He shall act at all times with decorum and shall not permit personal feelings; prejudices
and undue friendship to influence his actuation in the performance of his official
functions.
5. He shall not compromise with criminal and other lawless elements to the prejudice of
the customers or his client but to assist the government in its relentless drive against
lawless and other forms of criminality.
6. He must carry his assigned duties as a Security Guard, or watchman as required by the
law to the best of his ability and to safeguard life and property of the establishment he is
assigned.
7. He shall wear his uniform, badge, patches and insignia properly as a symbol of public
trust and confidence as an honest and trustworthy security guard.
8. He must keep his allegiance first to the government, to the agency he is employed and
to the establishment he is assigned to serve with loyalty & dedicated services.
9. He shall diligently and progressively familiarize himself with the rules and regulations
laid down by his agency and those of his customers or clients.
10. He shall at all times be courteous, respectful, and salute his superior officers,
government officials he is supposed to serve.
11. He shall report for duty in proper uniform and always neat in appearance.
12. He shall learn at heart and strictly observe the laws and regulations governing the use
of firearms.
CODE OF CONDUCT

1. To carry with him at all times during his tour of duty his license and Identification Card,
firearms license and the permit to carry firearms.
2. He shall not use his license and privileges to prejudice the public, the clients or
customers and the agency.
3. He shall not engage in any unnecessary conversation with anybody except in the
discharge of his duties or sit down unless required by the nature of his work and shall at
all times keep himself alert during his tour of duty;
4. He shall not read newspaper, magazines, book, etc., while actually performing his duties;
5. He shall not drink any intoxicating liquor, immediately before and during his tour of duty;
6. He shall know the location of the fire alarm box near his post and to sound the alarm in
case of fire or disorder;
7. He shall know how to operate any fire extinguisher at his post;
8. He shall know the locations of the telephone and/or telephone number of the police
precincts as well as the telephone number of the fire stations in the locality;
9. He shall immediately notify the police in case of any sign of disorder, strike, riot or any
serious violation of the law;
10. He shall assist the police in the preservation and maintenance of peace and order and in
the protection of life and property;
11. He shall familiarize himself with the PRIVATE SECURITY AGENCY LAW (RA No. 5487)
as amended and its implementing rules and regulations.
DUTIES OF SECURITY GUARDS DURING STRIKES OR LOCKOUTS
General Policies (Security Personnel)
1. All private security personnel in direct confrontation with strikers, marchers, or
demonstrators shall not carry firearms. They may, at least, carry night sticks (batuta) and
may not be provided with canisters with tear gas dispensers. Private personnel with strikers
may carry in the usual prescribed.
2. Private security shall avoid direct contact, either physically or otherwise, with the
strikers.
3. Private security personnel, in protecting and securing the assets and persons of their
clients, shall use only sufficient and reasonable force necessary to overcome the risk or
danger posed by strikers or hostile crowds, physical clashes or forces between labor and
management. These hostile acts, among others, may consist of breaking the strike,
smuggling in of scabs, and preventing strikers from conducting a peaceful picket.
4. Private security personnel on duty must, at all times, be in complete uniform with their
names and agency’s name shown on their shirts above the breast pockets.