20 Year security professional says bad behavior rising
Queenland AU April 18 2018 A disturbing surge in fights, drugs and unruly behaviour in the city centre has a Mackay security trainer worried.
Kane Goodall, a high profile security officer who has been in the industry for more than 20 years knows the Mackay scene like the back of his hand.
He’s noticed an “alarming change” on the streets and has taken action to ensure security officers don’t allow anything to fall between the cracks in Mackay.
As crime rates reached an all-time high in the region for the second time in three months, Mr Goodall said it was time to crack down and tighten the reins.
New data from Queensland Police shows there were more offences committed in March than in any other month since 2001.
“Drug overdoses, drug-affected violence, drunken behaviour – both violence and just very sick, domestics, threats on personnel and venue employees,” Mr Goodall said, describing the city centre behaviour. “I could go on forever.
“To prevent that… that starts with proper education and training for those who regulate and control premises and personnel.”
A security officer with Pauly’s security, Mr Goodall also recently joined the training company Morrissey Training.
He wants all students to be able to correctly handle the situations he believes are getting out of hand, by ensuring everything is done by the books.
“Being in the industry as long as I have, I’ve seen it all.
“When things have got out of hand, when guys have got abusive and violent, guards don’t know what to do and they end up getting hurt themselves.”
Morrissey Training, a Queensland company with a Mackay office, has been operating since 2003.
The company was founded by Victor Morrissey, a former New Zealand police inspector and ex-director of advanced police training. He spent three years in Papua New Guinea working at the PNG police college.
Mr Goodall said he was happy to be in a position to “make a huge difference”.
“I want to see professional guards on our clubs, on our doors, I don’t want to see second rank guards that don’t know their jobs.”
Mr Goodall also wants to remove the stigma that interested him in security in the first place.
“Originally I got into security because it was cool being a bouncer on the nightclub,” he said. “Which is literally the stigma I want to stop.”
He said after many years of “being on the door and all sort of security” he realised he had a serious line of duty.
“Its not about being a bouncer, it’s about being a security officer,” he said.
“We can’t just treat it as a casual job, it needs to be taken seriously.”
