Image from Ani Kolleshi @anikolleshi Increased security measures have been adopted, in the U.S. and around the globe, as new cases of the Coronavirus continue to be detected. As of Wednesday, Feb. 12, here is a Coronavirus update: A Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined at a dock in Japan, has 65 new Coronavirus [...]
Image from Kat Wilcox https://www.pexels.com/photo/crime-scene-do-not-cross-signage-923681/ Privateofficer.org and its blog, Privateofficerbreakingnews, provide great statistical information, including security officer deaths and security officer-involved shootings. Below you will find their latest post on shootings and/or deaths that involved security officers in 2020. The last line is worth repeating here: "However, of the shootings chronicled thus far [...]
Image from Camilo Jiminez, unsplash.com Security Magazine has a very informative and thought-provoking story this month by Security Management Resources Group CEO Jerry J Brennan titled "Guilt by Association – Public References and Their Impact on Your Security Career." There's a saying that nothing is ever truly deleted from the Internet. Try as [...]
Limited seating is still available for Independent Security Advisors' March dignitary and executive protection training program, scheduled to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina. With 2020 being an election year, this particular course is critical if you are planning a career in dignitary and executive protection, as ISA CEO Matt Parker notes that pat of [...]
Swedish Medical Center workers on strike. Photo by Rich Smith of The Stranger. International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO) Executive Director Sandi Davies was recently quoted in a story by Rich Smith of Seattle -based media website The Stranger. The story concerns a strike by employees of Swedish Medical Center, a non-profit health [...]
Professor Susan Bourke (fourth from left) with some of her University of Cincinnati criminal justice students. (Loss Prevention Magazine). By Karl F. Langhorst, CPP, CFI - January 30, 2020, Loss Prevention Magazine Ask almost any asset protection executive what one of their challenges is, and they will tell you it is recruiting quality [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtuLLelPJA&feature=emb_logo From the Dallas Police Department: On January 25, 2020, at approximately 10:30 p.m., Security Officer Max King was shot multiple times while working in full security uniform at the Little World Convenience Store located at 4600 Malcolm X Blvd. The suspect, a black male dressed in a pink hoodie and wearing a backpack, fled [...]
Map of Coronavirus from CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html The coronavirus remains a serious threat, both inside the U.S. and its country of origin, China, with the The Washington Post reporting the death toll in China has climbed past 200. In the United States, the number of those infected appears to remain at 5, with 68 [...]
Image from Cleveland Fire https://twitter.com/ClevelandFire/status/1221575136232574977/photo/1 Thanks to the heroic actions of two Cleveland security officers and numerous firefighters, two children who were trapped in a burning building are now safe. A security officer patrolling the neighborhood heard the screams of an 8-year-old girl coming from a second- floor window. PrivateOfficerBreakingNews has the story: [...]
Are you just getting into the security industry? If you are, you want to launch your career in the right way, with the proper knowledge and skills to build a foundation upon which more advanced training can be based. That is precisely why the the International Foundation for Protection Officers designed the Initial Security Officer [...]
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