Black eye for us security associates

[capurato]

Wonder how many contacts they will lose. The site supervisor had to be in on it.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/02/01/54478.htm

[sec-guy]

I say also it had to "inside job".

2009 to Sept. 2012 is a long time for some "bean-counter"
not to have seen there are things that are just not adding up. The amount
stolen is not a small amount.

At my post, when I come on duty I would KNOW in about 10 minutes
that cameras have been moved (and I'mnot a Supervisor); maybe not just
the Supervisor was involved.
At our operation we have covert cameras (if you are doing
your job on your patrols you would notice an awful lot of them)
Security Officers are being watched daily; Supervisors review
the previous days files.


On the otherhand; we do lots of reports for a shift but "no one
reads them".

This reminds me of something that happened a few years back. Was working an industrial post; a 24/7 operation.
$60k worth of copper bus bar was stolen over a 4 day holiday. During that period no trucks went in or out; only
employees. The bar were long so they must have been cut to hid them.

[zm88]

This company has serious ethics issues. It was known in.Boston that if you had a criminal record (as in your a felon amd cant work security) that you more than likely could get a job with USSA because they didnt do background checks. They finally got cracked.down on and had to lay off many people (including SPOs and armed) i had nothing but bad experiences with them when ot comes to.professionalism.

[Squid]

Reminds me of the Cal Plant Protection case where about 20 guards 'stuck to their story' on a heist of few million in computer chips.

No one talked so no case.

CPP basically ended. They had been a pretty big outfit.

[DCPSPDcop]

This company has serious ethics issues.

US Security Associates was DC Government's primary security contractor for nearly 2 years after Hawk One Security imploded. We really never had any problems with them; and although they had many of the same employees as Hawk One employed, they seemed to do a much better job at managing them.

In any case, the Mayor decided to not renew their contract last year, because of the negative reputation of the company elsewhere in the country and the multiple EEOC related lawsuits that have been filed against the company.

[zm88]

I always make sure to say it was.the.boston office that i had these problems with.