KITCHENER Canada October 12 2021– Mental health workers will be available to help campus security officers respond to student calls at the University of Guelph this year. The mental health intervention program is designed to help students in crisis, the university said in a news release. Mental health workers will be available four days a […]
Vernon Canada October 10 2021 Overnight security downtown over the summer resulted in six calls to RCMP, one to Vernon Fire Rescue Services and one to the city. In its second year of operation, the seasonal security that patrols downtown in a marked vehicle overnight recorded 1,751 observations in five months, doubling 2020’s total of 796. […]
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. Canada Oct 6 2021— A P.E.I. man who struck a security guard with a board in a Charlottetown clinic parking lot was sentenced for assault on Sept. 27. Prior to sentencing, Joseph Erwin Augustine Jr., 37, pleaded guilty in provincial court in Charlottetown to assault. Crown attorney Chad McQuaid told the court that […]
Bradford UK October 5 2021 A man and a security company have both been fined more than £1,200 each after hiring an unqualified man to be a bouncer at a Bradford nightclub. Both Basharat Bashir and Liberty Security Solutions admitted using an unlicensed security operative between November 2018 and March 2019 at a hearing in […]
Halifax Canada Sept 30 2021 A security guard at a Bayers Lake store was stabbed in the arm Monday afternoon when he tried to stop a thief. Halifax police responded to the incident in the 0-100 block of Washmill Lake Drive in Halifax at 4:27 p.m., the force said in a news release. Officers were told […]
Japan Sept 7 2021 Police officers in the southern Japanese city of Beppu have accused a man of stealing 730 pieces of women’s underwear from coin laundries. Authorities were first alerted by an unnamed 21-year-old female college student, who accused Tetsuo Urata, 56, of pilfering six pairs of underwear from her at a laundromat on August […]
Sydney AU Aug 30 2021 Former Waverley mayor Sally Betts said it would be better if the area’s parks and beaches were patrolled by more council rangers and fewer police officers as “not everyone understands the rules”. Last summer Randwick Council erected barricades at some beaches but found they just crowded people on to grassy areas. […]
Calgary Canada Aug 20 2021 Calgary police have charged a former mall security guard with theft in connection with the disappearance of thousands of dollars in cash that was turned in almost two years ago by a Good Samaritan but never reported to the authorities. The money was found at the North Hill Shopping Centre on […]
Manchester UK July 27 2021 Hospital security guards have been accused of abusing vulnerable patients after CCTV footage exclusively obtained by Channel 4 News shows an elderly man locked in a room for 11 hours without treatment, food or water. Stepping Hill Hospital, in Greater Manchester, has admitted unlawful detention and assault and settled out of […]
Northern Mariana Islands July 24 2021 Island Protective Service and its principal, Mohammad Nurul Islam Bhuiyan, have been sued by Mohammad Jashim Uddin in federal court. Uddin is accusing IPS and Bhuiyan of not paying him the U.S. minimum wage and overtime, and for requiring him to pay “recruitment fees.” Uddin sued IPS and Bhuiyan […]