Trusted Guards, Secure Customers
Conducting thorough background checks on guards and security service personnel is essential for ensuring safety, maintaining trust, and protecting assets.

Guards that won't let you down
Security staff act as the human barrier to critical assets—requiring trust, clarity, and compliance. Scaut verifies the identity, criminal history, licensing status of all prospective security personnel, whether they are guards, control room staff, or patrol officers. Automated annual re-vetting and alert-driven risk detection ensure those in high-access roles remain trustworthy.

On your checklist
Conduct thorough pre-employment background screening for guards
Validate licensing, physical and psychological fitness
Monitor ongoing staff for sanctions, affiliations, and misconduct
Align access control with active clearance status
Perform scheduled and event-triggered re-vetting
Why it matters
Although specific high profile cases of security guards or onsite protection staff in Europe failing at screening remain under reported publicly, broader analyses warn that inadequate recruitment and training of frontline security teams significantly elevate insider threat risks in critical facilities—from energy plants to major logistics hubs—that rely on vetted personnel as first line defenders, as highlighted in the The Critical Entities Resilience Directive.
Regulations to be aware of
Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER)
EU Regulation 300/2008
ISO 18788
National Security Industry Laws (e.g., UK SIA)
EN 15602:2008
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