What law or legal terms should all guards know?

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Squid gets the point. If you have some basic training in the law, you know WHAT to observe, and HOW to report. While it does depend on the type of security you're doing, even the construction site at 3:00am will get some jailhouse lawyer trying to bluff his way past the guard to steal the copper and...

[Condo Guard]

I've found that in most of my training with contract the companies, the focus has always been learning the limits of our authority (i.e. "you look like a cop but you're just a citizen in a uniform.") Use of force seems to come up consistently. Maybe a bit about premises liability, from the...

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So, I guess now you have to read multiple stories just to get the news right. Apparently, the creator of the characters thinks they are gay, but Sesame Street is denying it, stating (correctly) that they're just puppets. I realize people tend to project what they want on various fictional characters,...

[Condo Guard]

So, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street are officially gay. (As Seinfeld would say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that...") What's wrong is that it matters on a CHILDREN'S SHOW, and SS decided they had to announce it.

Granted, Sesame has always been on the lefty side, but...

[Condo Guard]

Are they always running, or do you have discretion to turn on and off? I think they will be more common for security as the price comes down - everybody whips out their cell phone at the slightest excuse and starts filming us anyways...

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It isn't likely anything will happen - the guy is oversensitive. I had a similar experience last weekend. The facility I work at is near a college. We post signs and hand out flyers on game days that there is no event parking. If we see you head towards the college, you get an impound notice. We give...

[Condo Guard]

Jim - the empty holster thing does bug me. I know years ago in Seattle if an armed supervisor went to the port terminals, he had to remove his sidearm and secure it in the vehicle. It was a longshoremen's union rule, probably rooted in Seattle's labor unrest in the 1930s and before. It would be...

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adm...184608708.html

As noted, this is an Obama administration policy. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of Hawaii.

[Condo Guard]

You just reminded me of a co. I worked for a total of 3 days. The local strip mall was the weekend hang out for 3 area high schools. They had off duty sheriffs, but got rid of them and hired Warm Bodies 'R' Us to save a buck. With no arrest or impound authority, the whole thing was a joke.
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[Condo Guard]

Other than failure to disperse and most likely a violation of the noise ordinance, looks like a typical L.A. night to me. As long as they weren't looting the stores or staging 'fight club', any reaction needed to be carefully contemplated.

There is a nugget of serious discussion here...

[Condo Guard]

Yes, most companies frown on it (and make sure it is legal in your state). But I worked for one company that had mostly part time only, so they were OK with you working for another company. (When I got a FT position with benefits they didn't even try to keep me, just wished me luck.)

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[Condo Guard]

The problem is "security director" is one of those job titles that doesn't carry a specific set of requirements; sometimes its just title inflation. The research I've done shows that different companies have a different idea of what a security director does. Some separate out the physical...

[Condo Guard]

It is worth it if you see it as an investment, and are going for a high end corporate position (many require a CPP). But, as you noted, you can be a director without one. Your MP experience will be an asset; get as much supervisory experience as you can (field supervisor, operations, etc.). See...

[Condo Guard]

As far as best practices, a lot of the stuff online is geared towards campus LE, but you could probably adapt some of it. You can check your campus's crime stats (I'm pretty sure 2 year colleges are included in the Clery Act), and focus on how to deal with the biggest problems.

I actually...

[Condo Guard]

Silliness and sarcasm aside, I have both worked campus security in the past, and applied recently (with no success - probably because I'm an old white guy in socialist Seattle. But anyways...)

As far as the phone issue goes, if you can't have someone at the desk, then you have to forward...

[Condo Guard]

Depends on the site. The supervisor might get there before the deputy on the other side of the county. Likewise, if the call isn't ranked high but there's still a danger, an armed officer arriving tends to settle everybody down by his mere presence rather than me with just a flashlight and a note...

[Condo Guard]

In my opinion the whole Craftsman tools debacle drove away a lot of their customer base. Moving the production outside of the U.S., selling it to Black & Decker, promising to move it back, etc.

Still sad to see what used to be an iconic name fade away, not to mention all the workers...

[Condo Guard]

The expression on her face tells you everything you need to know. If you work in security, you have to expect to encounter the police at some point. If you hate the police, think that laws are how the elite keep people down or are otherwise anti-social in your opinion or lifestyle, this isn't the job...