As the public authority with regulatory and enforcement responsibilities for security matters in the field of aviation, AVSEC Malta oversees the aviation security training given by and to aviation stakeholders. It also certification sessions at regular intervals as detailed below:
Aviation Security Managers and Instructors Certification Programme
This mandatory training is aimed at persons having direct managerial responsibilities of persons employed to carry out aviation security duties at airports, airlines, handling agents, in-flight suppliers, regulated agents, known consignors, known suppliers or any other entity which is tasked with aviation security duties.
Any individual vested with the responsibility of ensuring the implementation of aviation security measures requires certification as a Security Manager and Instructor. Ensuring the implementation of aviation security measures is achieved through internal quality control activities which is the task of Security Managers as well as through proper training of security personnel which is the task of Security Instructors. It is very common within entities for the same individual to conduct the two tasks. This is the reason why the certification of Security Managers and Instructors is tied together. In this context, the certification as a Security Manager and Instructor is also required to be authorised to deliver security training in one (or more) of the following areas of aviation security:
1.Airport security (including airport planning, access control, screening of staff and items carried, vehicle examination, patrols and surveillance, prohibited articles for staff, security controls and protection of airport supplies, recruitment and training of security personnel, and security equipment);
2. Passengers and baggage security (including screening and protection of passengers, cabin baggage, hold baggage, and air carrier mail and material to be loaded onto aircraft, recruitment and training of security personnel and security equipment);
3. Air carrier security (including requirements for crew identification cards, aircraft security searching, aircraft protection, potential disruptive passengers, hold baggage reconciliation, protection of air carrier mail and material used for passenger and baggage processing, in-flight security measures and recruitment and training of staff);
4. Cargo and mail security (including security controls and protection of cargo and mail, security controls to be implemented by regulated agents and known consignors, security controls for high risk cargo and mail, security control for cargo and mail entering the EU from third countries, recruitment and training of security personnel, and security equipment);
5. In-flight supplies security (including security controls and protection of in-flight supplies, security controls to be implemented by air carriers and regulated suppliers to in-flight supplies, recruitment and training of security personnel, and security equipment).
Interested candidates are required to subject themselves to an enhanced background check prior to enrolment into the certification programme. Interested candidates are to contact AVSEC Malta directly for additional information through our Contact section.