BC Security Guards Need to be better equipt

We as Security Guards, the people Security Guards Protect and the clients of Security companies would like the Private Investigators and Security Agencies Act of BC to be modified in such a way as to allow Security Guards in the Provence of British Columbia armed with non-lethal weapons (i.e. Batons)

A security guards primary responsibility is to observe and report, but what if it's an assault in progress or a guard is attacked with a weapon. All Security Guards are required to know basic open hand tactics, but if the least violent reasonable means is the use of an impact weapon (baton) or an aerosol weapon (pepper spray); a Guard should be able to carry a weapon to defend themselves as well as the people and property they protect.

Every year many guards are attacked and injured or killed and in many cases it was due to their lack of defensive equipment. In most provinces for example; Guards are entitled to use aerosol weapons (mace, pepper spray, etc.) and batons. In some other provinces guards are equip with Tasers.

In almost all other places guards can at very least carry Hand Cuffs. An effective means of restraining a violent individual that is attempting to attack a guard or someone the guard is trying to protect should be a requirement, yet here is BC it is prohibited. If it requires both hands to restrain someone and there are no phones or perhaps no other people around, how can the guard be expected to call the police?

The Private Investigators and Security Agencies Act of BC is ridiculous in the way that some one who is called a Security GUARD is not permitted to carry any equipment to help uphold that title.

We call for some or all of the following to be permitted as acceptable equipment for Security Guards in British Columbia:
- Hand Cuffs
- Impact Weapons (i.e. Batons)
- Aerosol Weapons (i.e. Pepper Spray, Mace, OC Spray)
- Tasers