- An overblown American concept is the Police Mystique, hyperbole I highlight as proble...
- The number of town hall snoopers and private security guards armed with sweeping poli...
- Private security guards offer a false sense of security. Most of the nations's 1 mill...
- The governments' inability to regulate the security industry is raised over the killi...
- Hundreds of residents who have 'lost faith in the police force' have clubbed together...
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PRIVATE SECURITY
Ffolkestar Security Protocol's featured report
- in summary -
by Roger Ffolkes
Long after 9/11, an estimated 1.4 million American Private Security Guards still labor for independent temporary placement services, under no national standard of training and credentialing, nor central database to confirm felony background checks, job experience or moral turpitude.
Security Guards are the frontline eyes and ears of America - charged to protect its citizenry from theft, rape, murder and now terrorism - yet plod through dead-end menial jobs within an archaically unstable system.
PRIVATE SECURITY reports on the security community's inability to provide value for the money or meet our nation's heightened condition, describing a severe dumbing-down of the protection product by:
- An industry-wide 100%-to-300% annual workforce turnover.
- Ease of guard jobs obtained by ner'-do-well applicants.
- Inadequate supervision mangling well-planned procedure.
- Experienced applicants unable to obtain quality jobs.
- Good personnel scapegoated to bootlick client bluster.
- Ex-cop and cop wannabe bosses abusing wage-slave guards.
- So-called ‘common sense’ solutions that don’t work in the real world.
With the security product conceptualized as not truly interrelated with law enforcement; Private Security suggests police and security methods must be realized as wholly separate entities for security standards to succeed on the grand scale required.
Failed attempts to improve security services are explained, with a plan to nationally register privately employed security guards and officers outlined, one through a standards of competency rule such as privately employed first-responders enjoy.
Also suggested is a central Peace Officer Reservist board based on extant curricula, to provision entry-level Security-trained Police candidates for regular service to small communities, borders, airports and defense industries -- creating Technospecialists for deployment in times of national emergency.
Private Security believes that our country's security personnel are worthy of empowering into a nationally cohesive presence. It calls on United States' lawmakers to accomplish what our security community will not do, that is, motivate security personnel into career opportunities for success.
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News Articles
The Police Mystique
An overblown American concept is the Police Mystique, hyperbole I highlight as problematic within security forces. An editorial regarding yet another citizen playing cop - not a security guard this time but a civilian employee of the local cop-shop - shows how prevailingly troublesome this ego-enhancing...
Read More...Britains State-sanctioned Vigilantism
The number of town hall snoopers and private security guards armed with sweeping police powers has rocketed by a fifth in only 12 months.There are now 1,667 park wardens, dog wardens, car park attendants and shopping centre guards permitted to hand out fines for 'crimes' such as littering, dog fouling...
Read More...Security guards are Homeland's weak link
Private security guards offer a false sense of security. Most of the nations's 1 million-plus guards are unlicensed, untrained and not subject to background checks. Their burgeoning, $12 billion-a-year industry is marked by high turnover, low pay, few benefits and scant oversight. And according to government...
Read More...Security can't regulate itself
The governments' inability to regulate the security industry is raised over the killing of two contractors in Iraq. Again, it appears that a lapse in discipline by an individual has brought the spotlight back to bear on the world of private security contractors. It is a world on which everyone seems...
Read More...Private Security to patrol the Streets
Hundreds of residents who have 'lost faith in the police force' have clubbed together to hire the private team of uniformed officers to protect them from crime in the area. Residents of an affluent suburb in Southampton have decided to pay £3.15 a week to fund a private security force to patrol the...
Read More...Parking Attendants as Cops
Magistrates are incensed about a scheme to give nightclub doormen police-style powers to patrol the streets. More than 1,400 people across England and Wales have been accredited to hand out instant fines for offences from drinking in an illegal area to disorder, harrassment, flyposting and dog fouling. The...
Read More...Training Rules Upset Security Companies
Training Rules Upset Security Companies
Albuquerque Journal
Some security companies are crying foul over new state regulations that require new security guards to go through dozens of hours of training.
Opponents say a member of the New Mexico Private Investigator and Polygraph...
RIP Frank Wills Watergate Guard
Security Guard Frank Wills had trouble getting a job after discovering the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Other government funded jobsites in and around DC figured him for a pariah. Comedian Dick Gregory gave him a good job later on, for show, and could have set Frank up with a trust fund but didn't....
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