The Coordination Council of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on cooperation between internal affairs bodies and private guard and detective organizations was created in 1999.

Assistants:

• Pavel Kovalev, member of the Coordination Council Presidium of the Maintenance of Public Order Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Privolzhsky Federal District Coordinator, head of the Berkut Group of Companies;
• Alexander Fomin, Militia Colonel, Head of Directorate for the Protection of Public Order of Nizhny Novgorod Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate Public Security Militia;
• Nikolai Dyakov, Militia Major, Acting Department Head of the Department of License Issuing Organization and Control over Private Detective and Guarding Activity of Nizhny Novgorod Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate Public Security Militia.

During the operation of the CC, the task of forming a healthy core of security organizations, aimed at productive cooperation with government bodies and solving public problems of public order maintenance and crime prevention.

A CC is formed individually, based on the quality criteria of potential candidates’ performance evaluation: 

• experience and length of service of the security company on the market;
• effective cooperation of the security company with internal affairs bodies in law enforcement and public order maintenance;
• complying with the norms of civilized competition on the security services market and the norms of corporate ethics;
• availability of material and technical basis and equipment;
• effective system of professional management and guard training;
• appropriate appearance and uniform of the candidate’s staff;
• no instances of wrong weapon handling; emergencies at the guarded object at the fault of the company’s staff; infringement of citizen’s rights by the guards; undue participation in civil arguments of entities.

The CC operates in the following directions:

1.     Regular meetings of the CC Presidium are held, as well as enlarged sessions of the Coordination Council informing members of coordination councils about the changes in the regulations concerning activities of security organizations and law enforcement practice.

2.     In order to help to use state-of-the-art information technologies for cooperation between private security companies and the Internal Affairs Ministry’s bodies of the region, a project, called “Vzaimodeystvie – NN”, has been developed and is currently being realized, which includes an electronic city map and a database of objects (location), guarded by private security companies, with information for real-time decision-making by duty services of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate about involvement of effort and money of private security organizations for law enforcement and crime prevention.

3.     Members of the CC are involved in analyzing and discussing drafts of public normative documents concerning private security. During the discussion of document drafts, detailing the new federal legislation, more than 30 proposals by private security companies’ directors were forwarded and discussed, more than 20 manuals were worked out and circulated among private security organizations, total run: more than 5 500 paper copies, on electronic media - 2300 CDs; videos from speeches at seminars, held by the CC of the Maintenance of Public Order Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on the issues concerning private security by the heads of the License Issuing Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the CC of the  Maintenance of Public Order Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia – 250 CDs.

4.     Within the CC, there have been created and are now effectively operating working groups in the following directions: cooperation between private security organizations and the Internal Affairs Ministry’s bodies in public order maintenance; interaction with consumers of guard and detective services; complying with legislation and professional ethics; professional training of private security companies’ staff.

5.     Summarizing the results of participation of guard and detective organizations in the events set up for cooperation with internal affairs bodies in law enforcement and public security and front-line experience of working in this sphere. In the regional contest for private security organizations of 2009, the following ones were considered the best: “The Best Security Company” Nomination 1st prize– Taurus, Ltd., 2nd prize – LUKOM-A-NIZHNY NOVGOROD, LTD, 3rd prize -  GARANT-ULTRA, LTD; “Director of the Year” Nomination  1st prize – Pavel Kovalev, 2nd prize – Vyatcheslav Raisky, 3rd prize – Mikhail Koryshev.

6.     Much work is being done to ensure information support of private security organizations’ work in practical realization of Law 272-Federal Law;

• Within the CC there has been created a Working Group for interaction with mass media;
• There has been created, is regularly updated and often used by representatives of private security community a website of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Coordination Council of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate (www.ks-guvd-nn.ru);
• Issue of newsletters and special editions on the problems of guard and detective activity has been organized (Information Digest “This is How Private Security in Nizhny Novgorod Works” and a special edition (corporate paper) “Private Security-NN);
• Seminars and workshops with heads of guard and detective organizations on presenting learning law-enforcement practices, as well as federal legislation concerning private guard and detective activity;
• Regular participation of the CC Presidium representatives in events dedicated to professional training of the staff of license issuing  services of the region (8 meetings in 2009) with a view to develop common approaches and methods of realization of management documentation concerning private security;
• Much work is done to promote the magazine “Security Management” and the internet portal “GuardInfo” (www.GuardINFO.ru), NP “KC- ROSS”(www.kc-ross.ru) (subscription and recommendation to use in practical work by members of security community);
•  Due to lots of public attention caused by the changes in private security legislation, there have been worked out and are being effectively realized the issues of continuous communication and cooperation with the mass media of the region. Members of the CC regularly take part in “round-tables” and other events on the topics which concern private security, held by regional offices of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (5 events), “Birzha Plus Kariera” (3 events), “Nizhegorodskaya Pravda” (3 events), “Zemlya Nizhegorodskaya” (2 events), “Gorod y Gorozhane” (2 events), information TV-channels “SETI-NN” (4 theme programs), “GTRK Kreml” (5 theme programs), “TK VOLGA” (5 theme programs);

7.     The CC carries out social projects in the region in the following directions:

• “A Hero’s Family” Project – psychological and financial aid for families of employees of the Internal Affairs Ministry and security agencies, killed in the line of duty;
• “Veteran” Project – psychological and financial aid for employees of the Internal Affairs Ministry and security agencies, as well as retraining of officers and contract soldiers of Armed Forces and Navy, transferred to the reserve, motivating them to work in private security companies and practical help to them in employment and adjustment to the new environment;
• “Veterans-to-Successors” Project – psychological and financial aid for acting employees of the Internal Affairs Ministry and security agencies performing their duty of law enforcement and antiterrorist protection.