International Foundation for Protection Officers

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has homeless epidemic

KELLY YAMANOUCHI ON FEB 5, 2018 SOURCE: MCCLATCHY, SecurityInfoWatch.com Feb. 02--Atlanta airport officials like to boast that Hartsfield-Jackson International is the world's busiest and most efficient airport, with a terminal that always looks "opening day fresh." But over the past few months, the airport's domestic terminal has become more known for being filled with homeless people [...]

By |2018-02-05T20:11:10-05:00February 5th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has homeless epidemic

Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

  Here are the IFPO's latest graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   Eldis J. Vazquez, CSSM, Lacey, WA, USA Kyle T. Thorstenson, CPO, Lancaster, CA, USA Michael Hopkins, CPO, Calgary, AB, Canada Shaun Flood, CPO, Des Moines, IA, USA   Find out how YOU can become a Certified Protection Officer with the IFPO! [...]

By |2018-02-02T16:49:38-05:00February 2nd, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

Congrats to Zach S., IFPO’s January Scholarship Award recipient!

Our December Scholarship Winner is: Zach S., of Mobile, Ala., who has elected to take the Certified in Security Supervision and Management (CSSM)! Congratulations, Zach! To sign up for the Monthly Scholarship for a CPO Program or the CSSM Program, click here! The International Foundation for Protection Officers stands for professionalism and education. As part of that commitment the [...]

By |2018-02-02T16:26:08-05:00February 2nd, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on Congrats to Zach S., IFPO’s January Scholarship Award recipient!

Clark County defies order to release Vegas shooter coroner’s report

by Tyler Durden, zerohedge.com Thu, 02/01/2018 - 08:10 After months of radio silence, new information released earlier this week surrounding the investigation into Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock's motive appears to have revived suspicions that another person was involved in the shooting. The newly unsealed documents - which were unsealed by court order after journalists at [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:36:18-05:00February 2nd, 2018|News|Comments Off on Clark County defies order to release Vegas shooter coroner’s report

Black Lives Matter and Antifa targeting Super Bowl LII

January 31, 2018 by Cassandra Fairbanks, TheGatewayPundit.com As the two large banners were dropped inside, hundreds of leftist protesters marched in the streets and blocked traffic surrounding the event at the Xcel Energy Center. Many of the demonstrators have formed an Antifa-aligned group calling themselves the “Super Bowl Anti-Racist Anti-Corporate Coalition.” Securing the Best: Raising the [...]

By |2018-01-31T20:46:24-05:00January 31st, 2018|News|Comments Off on Black Lives Matter and Antifa targeting Super Bowl LII

Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

By James Vincent@jjvincent  Jan 23, 2018, 10:54am EST TheVerge.com We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes, watching over us or watching out for us, depending on your view. But really, they’re more like portholes: useful only when someone is looking through them. Sometimes that means a human watching live footage, usually from multiple video feeds. [...]

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The Conley Group installs Forward Looking Infrared units in patrol vehicles

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRIVATE SECURITY SERVICES FIRM INSTALLS CUTTING-EDGE FLIR TECHNOLOGY IN ITS PATROL VEHICLES—TOUTS IT AS A “GAME CHANGER” Des Moines, Iowa (January 25, 2018) --- The Conley Group Security Forces (Conley Group) today announced that the firm has purchased and installed Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) units in several of its patrol vehicles. [...]

By |2018-01-26T12:15:33-05:00January 26th, 2018|News|Comments Off on The Conley Group installs Forward Looking Infrared units in patrol vehicles

Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

  Here are the IFPO's latest Certified Protection Officer graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   Orlando Audifre, CPO, Newport News, VA, USA Pierce Brown, CPO, Urbandale, IA, USA Lizbeth Valle, CPO, Saint Marys, GA, USA Gabriel-Andres Sanchez, CPO, Columbus, OH, USA Sefanie Hollander, CPO, Urbandale, IA, USA Noelle Carr, CPO, Newport News, VA, [...]

By |2018-01-26T11:28:56-05:00January 26th, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

ASIS International CEO Peter J. O’Neil talks about changes in the security industry

BY JOEL GRIFFIN AND PAUL ROTHMAN ON JAN 24, 2018, SecurityInfoWatch Last month, ASIS International announced that it would be changing the name of its flagship annual security conference from the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits to the Global Security Exchange (GSX). The name change is intended to reflect the ongoing shift that is occurring both inside the organization and the [...]

By |2018-01-24T18:40:22-05:00January 24th, 2018|News|Comments Off on ASIS International CEO Peter J. O’Neil talks about changes in the security industry

9 European protection officers pass CPO exam

An email from Joop Verdonk, CPP, Managing Director of the European Security Academy: Dear CPO Fellows, Over the last week a couple of candidates from all over the continent sat the CPO exam. Nine of the passed the exam successfully. Their names are: Ingo Reusse, CPO, AMAZON, Germany Marco Balzereit, CPO, AMAZON, Germany Ioan Grigor, CPO, BOSCH, Romania Glenn [...]

By |2018-01-23T17:24:50-05:00January 23rd, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on 9 European protection officers pass CPO exam

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