IFPO Board Member Kevin Palacios with IFPO Executive Director Sandi Davies. Here is a message from IFPO Board Member Kevin Palacios, MSc., CPP, PSP, PCI, Director of the IFPO's operations in Latin America: The IFPO congratulates its recent Certified Protection Officers from Latin America. The foundation's standardized testing and security certifications (available in Spanish) are gaining importance [...]
The International Foundation for Protection Officers is pleased to announce it has been granted observer status with Switzerland-based non-profit International Code of Conduct Association. Anaïs Laigle, project officer for the ICoCA Secretariat, in a recent email to IFPO Executive Director Sandi Davies, stated, "We thank you for your continued support and confidence in ICoCA and we [...]
By Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle A man was hospitalized Wednesday morning with a gunshot wound to the chest after a security guard found him lying on the side of the road in northwest Houston, according to Metro Video. The man's current condition is unclear. The security guard found him on her way to work around 2:40 [...]
Photo: Metro Video Services Houston Chronicle Staff Updated 8:15 am CDT, Monday, May 13, 2019 HOUSTON -- A security guard at a Walgreens on FM 1960 opened fire on two armed, masked teens who were preparing to enter the store, critically wounding one of them. He later died at the hospital. The double [...]
From EDM Digest: HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — The three students who disarmed a gunman in a Colorado school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word and with no thought for their own safety when they spotted the gun, recounted one of the young men. They slammed the teenager, a classmate of theirs, [...]
Nominations for the 3rd annual Bill Zalud Memorial Award for Professional Excellence will be accepted beginning June 1st, 2019 until October 31, 2019. The award, which recognizes one security professional or an organization for professional excellence or outstanding service in the security profession and one runner-up, is a joint project between the International Foundation for [...]
There's a lot that is unknown at this point. First of all, the media is using an unnamed source, which, in the burden-of-proof spectrum of reporting, is not nearly as solid as using a named source speaking on-the-record. Second, the officer is not, at least at this point, facing criminal charges and third, if he [...]
From FOX Denver 31 - 2 News: DENVER - An armed security guard, employed privately by STEM School Highlands Ranch, helped apprehend one of the shooters Tuesday. "He probably saved more lives than he thinks he did," said Tyler Christensen, an 8th-grade student who was near the gunshots. "It makes him a hero. To me, [...]
photo from masslive.com From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews: WORCESTER MA May 6 2019 – A 31-year-old Leominster man with apparent mental health issues was charged with causing a security breach at Worcester Regional Airport, after he allegedly scaled a fence, stepped over three rungs of barbed wire and drove a fuel truck onto an aircraft taxi area. Laurence [...]
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