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Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/17/2007 - (Elliott v. Titan Security Service et al, Illinois Court of Appeals, No. 1-01-4226, 2004)
Intelligence: Public-Private Partnerships
12/17/2007 - In Toronto, citizens and businesses can choose whether police or private security personnel respond to alarms. Those who choose police bear the cost of false alarms.The video, developed by the Private Sector Liaison Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, also identifies the worst false-alarm offenders: municipal buildings, banks, schools, and churches.
Book Reviews: How-to
12/12/2007 - This book addresses the issue of providing professional training to security officers and supervisors who seek a career in security. A user-friendly text, it is filled with checklists covering topics such as how to improve job performance and prepare for a job interview.
Intelligence: Training
12/10/2007 - Security, once a priority only for security professionals, is now getting the attention of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) professionals. They say that training employees to protect against terrorism and other violence has become a top priority. The findings come from a study of 828 EHS trainers conducted by Business and Legal Reports and the Environmental, Safety and Health Training Association.
Security Services: Guards \ Security Officers
12/05/2007 - Whether in-house or proprietary, the key to building and maintaining a successful security force program is to ensure that it is well-managed and focused on company needs.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/04/2007 - Johnson v. LaRabida Children's Hospital, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh District, No. 03-2339, 2004.
Security Services: Loss Prevention
11/29/2007 - This study of false-arrest lawsuits shows companies the security procedures and policies that are most likely to land them in court.
Security Services: International Security
11/29/2007 - Private security had to get up to speed fast in Iraq. The experience has yielded important lessons.
Book Reviews: Integrated Systems
11/28/2007 - For security to succeed, it must incorporate not just guards, guns, and gates, but other elements, in particular technology. In addition, all the factors must work together, without focus on individual parts at the expense of the whole. Electronic Security Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and Selecting System Solutions fills that need, detailing all of the various components of a successful security system.
Security Services: Workplace Violence
11/27/2007 - Presenting a calm exterior is the key to success in this eight-step approach to de-escalating a threatening situation.
Case Study: Best Practices \ Case Studies
11/14/2007 - When Journey Security Services security guards witnessed a car accident while on patrol, they didn't have time to verify their coordinates and call 911. Instead the guards made a phone call to their supervisor, who tracked their precise location in seconds using the GPS tracking device in one guard's cell phone. The supervisor was able to call for an ambulance while the guards focused on helping the victims.
Intelligence: Public-Private Partnerships
11/13/2007 - Everyone's heard complaints about industry and government not sharing information with each other. So it's refreshing when word arises of effective communication between the public and private sectors. At January's inauguration of President Bush for his second term, the Secret Service's actions were a model of cooperation, according to private security companies with which they worked.
Book Reviews: Security Management
11/13/2007 - An associate professor of criminal justice, Mary Clifford has written a lengthy text that would be especially useful to students pursuing a career in security management. Chapters conclude with discussion and review questions designed to help readers understand the terms and concepts presented. These exercises and the practice scenarios contained in the book are best when considered in a group or classroom setting with an opportunity for feedback.
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