Welcome to
Industrial Security Foundation
It was in 1956 that two school leavers, Fuard Udman and Newton Dassanayaka, started the Pettah Watchmen services with two guards clad in khaki coats and armed with torches, batons and whistles to cover second Cross Street, on the 15th of May 1956. This was the birth of private security in Sri Lanka.
It is benefiting indeed that the Industrial security Foundation of Sri Lanka has stepped into provide the leadership to commemorate this landmark of 50 years of Private Security in Sri Lanka.
In the eighties with the introduction of the open economy the demand for Private Security saw the phenomenal increase. The emergence of new industries and commercial ventures together with the expansion of the existing ones, and the realization by investors and entrepreneurs that security was an indispensable input, led to the rise of security organization island wide.
INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FOUNDATION (SRI LANKA) Inc.,
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament - Act No. 51 of 1999)
