Public records show that Sula was licensed in May 2024 after completing the necessary training and education.<\/p>\n
He was authorised to work as a property guard, a personal guard, a crowd controller and a document destruction agent.<\/p>\n
However, police complained about him to the security licensing authority after he pleaded guilty to hitting the pensioner.<\/p>\n
Sula was discharged without conviction when the matter went to court. He has no other criminal record.<\/p>\n
Trish McConnell is the chair of the Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority which oversees the security guard and private investigator industries.<\/p>\n
However, police said to the authority that Sula was unable to control his temper and responded to violence with \u201cnegligible\u201d provocation.<\/p>\n
They said this was inconsistent with the behaviour and character required of a security guard.<\/p>\n
Sula did not attend the hearing where his fate was decided, nor make any other response to the police complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim of Mr Sula\u2019s offending was not known to him and was sitting in his car at a petrol station,\u201d authority chair Trish McConnell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only explanation Mr Sula gave for his offending at the time was that the man was looking at him,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with the police submission that someone who reacts with violence to non-threatening situations is not suitable to work as a security guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said guards were required to de-escalate volatile situations rather than react with violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey frequently face much greater provocation than being looked at the wrong way and must remain calm.\u201d<\/p>\n
McConnell cancelled Sula\u2019s certificate of approval to work in the industry, effective immediately.<\/p>\n
Ric Stevens spent many years working for the former New Zealand Press Association news agency, including as a political reporter at Parliament, before holding senior positions at various daily newspapers. He joined NZME\u2019s Open Justice team in 2022 and is based in Hawke\u2019s Bay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public records show that Sula was licensed in May 2024 after completing the necessary training and education. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1975,1124,17517,15453,1872,33738,42,16718,17551,37113,19133,5158,43,2341,1136,105,2437,13109,223,14005,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-294676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-because","11":"tag-elderly","12":"tag-face","13":"tag-guard","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-him","16":"tag-licensing","17":"tag-looked","18":"tag-looking","19":"tag-man","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-personnel","22":"tag-private","23":"tag-punched","24":"tag-security","25":"tag-several","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-times","28":"tag-top-news","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topnews","31":"tag-topstories","32":"tag-who"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}