Businesspeople must apply for a permit if they intend to employ more than 10 private security personnel, said Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung, Chairman of the Central Supervisory Committee on Private Security Service, at the 1/2025 meeting held at the Myanmar Police Headquarters on 20 June.
Companies that wish to operate private security services and those seeking to employ private security personnel within their businesses and branches must obtain a permit from the relevant committees at the union territory, regional, and state levels.
These committees will examine the applications for compliance with the requirements and submit the compliant applications to the central committee with a recommendation, which will issue a licence or permit as per the meeting resolution.
The Private Security Services Law, consisting of 13 chapters and 55 sections, stipulates requirements of licence and permit application, responsibilities and rights of the licensee and private security personnel, prohibitions, and penalties for companies and entrepreneurs who wish to operate these services. In the Central Committee’s Notification 16/2025 issued on 18 June 2025, application forms and 59 complete instructions are fully described.
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