More than 20,000 private security officers worked New Year’s Eve to protect life and property
Charlotte NC January 3, 2022
An estimated 20,000 security officers were on duty nationwide New Year’s Eve.
And that figure could be double said security manager Derrick Holmes who manages security for several properties in Philadelphia.
On-duty private security in the New York City metro area alone was estimated to be more than five thousand.
Keith Franklin a former security manager in the Big Apple said that in previous years, private security often outnumbered the NYPD.
While the NYPD said that a record number of their officers are out sick, mostly due to COVID, and as of Thursday, 21% of the uniformed force – more than 7,300 officers – called in sick, thousands of other officers were deployed in Times Square and elsewhere to protect its citizens and visitors.
Meanwhile, along with hundreds and thousands of police working to protect the public in other cities such as Nashville, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas and elsewhere, thousands of uniform security officers and plainclothes personnel were also on the job protecting life and property.
These security officers patrolled event centers, hotels, resorts, restaurants, nightclubs and conducted
patrols to keep the peace.
These on-duty security officer numbers do not reflect the many other thousands of private
officers who were on duty at their other regular assignments.
