Charlotte NC March 17^th, 2024

Nationwide, security officers, both those working with a contracted agency and those who are proprietary security personnel, are arrested while on duty more than 1500 times a year.

Of those charges, more than one hundred are violent offenses including murder, manslaughter, assault, and sex crimes but most are property crimes including burglary, theft, and embezzlement.

And those arrests are increasing.

The equation for the increase is simple.

First, there are more people employed in the security field than ever before.

In some areas, minimal background checks, training, and supervision are not required, and in other states, companies are not policed well by regulatory agencies.
Security firms have all but done away with quality checks, roving supervisors making spot checks of security officers and applicant qualifications too have been reduced to almost no requirements.

Security giants and small security firms alike must battle daily for applicants, in order to stay in business and usually, they are all fishing in the same place.

Wages have been forced up, and some companies have even begun offering sign-on bonuses and benefits but none of that makes for an honest, ethical, or better security officer but it can help retain those who are.

Here are the charges that security officers face most frequently based on seriousness:

 

1. Murder
2. Manslaughter
3. Aggravated Assault
4. Rape
5. Sexual Assault
6. Crimes Against Children
7. Burglary
8. Embezzlement
9. Grand Theft

10Firearm Charges

11Theft-Shoplifting

12 Assault

The majority of arrests during the past ten years have been for thefts and for sexual assaults.

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