San Francisco, CA April 28, 2017 – With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, a Eureka-area worker has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the International Union of Security Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 247 for illegally demanding the security guard be terminated. The worker, Jeffrey […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. April 28 2017— A public safety officer was injured following an incident at Lexington Medical Center, Thursday morning. According to hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Wilson, at 7:45 a.m. on April 27, a Lexington Medical Center Public Safety officer responded to a situation with a person in a car on the hospital campus. Following a […]
LAKE HOLIDAY, Va. April 28 2016– A man is facing charges for brandishing a firearm in Frederick County, Va. after a confrontation with a security guard. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect was wearing a red jacket with a white bandana over his face as he pointed his shotgun at the officer. The […]
NORTH, SC April 28 2017 An investigation is underway after a contract security officer deployed pepper spray at a school exposing and injuring at least seven students. Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five officials say they are investigating the discharge of pepper spray by the security officer that affected numerous students Thursday. The district stated that […]
ST. PAUL MN APRIL 28 2017—He was the training director of one of St. Paul’s largest security companies — a man certified on when and how to use Mace. Police were mystified as to why Timothy Knutsen would pepper-spray an autistic man in the face for eating a cookie from a Cub Foods sampler tray. […]
CHARLOTTE NC A recent and shocking discovery was made when several church security instructors talked about their experiences with churches that they have provided security instruction or audits for during the past three years. Mark Carruthers, a respected retired law enforcement officer and security instructo,r and Rick McCann, also a law enforcement professional and the […]
During the past two years, our office has worked with law enforcement and proprietary and contract security firms to establish a prudent and reasonable Use of Force recommendation for sworn private police and non-sworn private security officers. We have used the U.S. Constitution; reviewed fourteen law enforcement agencies revised Use of Policies and compiled our […]
Charlotte NC A security officer working an upscale office complex assignment near downtown Mobile Alabama and another security officer on duty at an apartment complex more than four hundred miles away in Houston Texas both met death on the same day and in the same way. They were murdered. Both were killed in violent attacks […]
A security services provider from California has decided to expand their business with a transportation service for the cannabis industry. MPS International who has offices in California, Colorado, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada and Washington is one of the first to provide armored car services to transport both the cannabis product and the revenues from the sales […]
Charlotte NC Using statistical data collected from state and federal databases and the news and press release archives of Private Officer International, we have compiled the most dangerous cities and states for private security personnel during the years of 2015 and 2016. The formula used to calculate these listings included known security officer deaths, reported […]