Ian Withers
A good result for the World Association of Professional Investigators at the latest NOS meeting
, Process is now back in, and available to be used by awarding bodies for future qualifications of our sector.
At the Investigations Advisory Working Group Workshop 5 held at Skills For Security on 02/03/2010 Ian Withers representing the World Association of Professional Investigators clarified that NOS are not to be confused with SIA Licensing. NOS may be used by awarding bodies to develop qualifications, but a pick and mix approach would be used to suit the relevant requirements. Ian Withers confirmed that from a WAPI perspective process serving is an essential part of an investigators role and should not be omitted; concerns were raised highlighting that if process serving were to be omitted from the suite of NOS this would potentially take a critical stream of income away from investigators.
After detailed discussions and consideration of the implications to omit process serving, the group agreed that this activity should be reinserted into the suite of NOS which will be submitted to the regulators and (UKCES) on 31/3/2010.
