The responsibility of the security compliance officer are as follows:
- development, implementation and enforcement of security policy, plan and procedures;
- review of security policy, plan and procedures where required;
- ensuring that security risk assessments are conducted;
- ensuring the implementation of mitigation measures based on the recommendations made in the risk assessment report;
- ensuring the reporting of security incidents to the Regulator in accordance with the applicable legislation;
- ensuring the investigation of security incidents that take place directly or indirectly in connection with that operator’s railway operations;
- implementing safety and security measures and evaluating and improving the effectiveness of these measures;
- conducting security awareness programmes; and
- ensuring that persons used in executing security activities are registered with the relevant authority,