Currently any Electronic Security employee who carries multiple registration categories must attend different training classes for each category.  The fact is that most training classes are registered to satisfy multiple category requirements.  This has led to individuals sitting in the same class multiple times simply to satisfy the written requirements. 

            The Electronic Security industry is changing dramatically every day and any company or any individual who hopes to stay in business or keep his or her job must continually learn new technologies.  The marketplace takes care of keeping individuals and businesses trained.  DCJS cannot regulate to such a degree as to guarantee competence in registrants.  The training standards are defined as minimum training standards, but they should at least allow for useful training.  The current regulatory environment and the current administration by DCJS effectively prevents businesses from conducting useful training.  To reduce the requirement to a single 4 hour class for every registrant each year or registration renewal period, regardless of the number of categories carried, would be sufficient to maintain a knowledge of the regulations and compliance and assure the public that the registrants had a basic knowledge of the requirements to operate in the industry.