By Jonathan Dart
An inquiry has heard that a security training company has taken a novel new approach to consumer participation: it asked its students if they wanted to attend courses for security accreditation and still gave them certification if they chose not to.
Roger Training Academy principal Ahmed Moosani faced the Independent Commission this morning facing allegations that he helped unqualified students break into the security industry.
Mr Moosani â himself requiring a translator to be sworn in to help with his testimony âsaid that he helped students with little or no English get their Certificate 1 or 2 accreditation to work in the security industry, despite literacy and numeracy being a prerequisite.
He was also aware that students were being given First Aid certificates through his company without attending courses.
âSome of the students, while working they couldn't attend the course, so we help them,â he said.
Mr Moosani denied he was paid extra money by students who didn't attend the courses, saying it was up to them as to whether they could make it.
â[It's a] good example of consumer participation,â ICAC Commissioner, Jerrold Cripps, said.
The inquiry also heard that in 2006 and 2007, Mr Moosani's company was also distributing Responsible Service of Alcohol certificates despite never holding a training course.
© 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald
