Petition Withdrawal of seaman's discharge book facility from maritime security personnel

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I am petitioning the government to offer a solution to the situation that many Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel (PCASPs) find themselves in as a result of the introduction of the Maritime Labour Convention (2006).

Resolution VII of the convention concludes that PCASPs are not seafarers and as a result are no longer entitled to discharge books or seaman’s cards from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Many PCASP’s are ex-military and have been made redundant by recent defence cuts and have used ECLAS grants to retrain into alternative employments such as Maritime Security.

What solution can the government offer to PCASPs who undertook training prior to the MCA’s decision to withdraw the facility of discharge books to PCASPs and who now find themselves unemployable on British flagged vessels?

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Date closed 4 February 2015
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