Fed: Security body backs call for uniform standards for bouncers

AAP General News (Australia)
01-20-2004
Fed: Security body backs call for uniform standards for bouncers

The nation's peak security industry body has joined calls for uniform national standards
after former test cricketer DAVID HOOKES was fatally bashed, allegedly by a pub bouncer,
in Melbourne.

The Australian Security Industry Association has called for security and licensing
regulation through state registries operated by police.

Earlier, a leading criminologist said the federal government should introduce national
standards for pub bouncers.

Dr TIM PRENZLER -- the head of …