Vancouver Canada July 30 2020 It was just another workday at Amato Gelato in Olympic Village for 24-year-old Shannon Ferris. Until she saw a customer breaking the store’s physical distancing rules. “She didn’t follow the precautions. She didn’t use the door that we had asked her to use,” said Ferris. “We have these ropes in […]
Kingstown Saint Vincent July 29 2020 A security guard who worked with Premium Security Services Ltd for 13 years has confessed to stealing a pair of shoes that she needed to wear as part of her uniform. Thirty-four year old Asha Lewis, the mother of a 14-year-old, appeared before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court and Senior […]
Vaughan Canada July 23 2020 York Regional Police arrested a man with a knife and a crossbow outside of Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre Tuesday. Police said they were called to the parking lot of the large outlet mall at Jane Street and Rutherford Road at around 6:45 p.m. after mall security reported that a man was […]
Thunder Bay Canada July 22 2020 The Thunder Bay Police Service arrested a Thunder Bay woman for assault and mischief following an altercation with a security guard Monday evening. Officers with the Uniform Patrol Branch were dispatched to a May Street convenience store just before 7:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13 following reports of an assault […]
Great Britain July 14 2020 Private security company G4S (GFS.L) could axe 1,150 jobs at its UK cash business as it grapples with an increased shift to digital payments triggered by Britain’s coronavirus lockdown. The British company sold most of its cash-handling operations to U.S. peer Brinks (BCO.N) in February but retained its UK business. “Following […]
Australia July 11 2020 Security guards employed at hospitals may be ill-prepared to deal with Code Black situations where patients or visitors appear threatening or violent, says Flinders University Professor of Nursing (Mental Health) Eimear Muir-Cochrane. A study of medical and surgical wards in a South Australian metropolitan public health network area studied the response of […]
Johannesburg Africa July 10 2020 Three suspects were arrested earlier this afternoon by Fox Security outside Mall of the South. Fox Security’s tactical and reaction units responded to reports of suspects trying to flee the mall after stealing from a shop inside. “The one suspect jumped over the perimeter fence trying to escape,” said Elowayne […]
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica June 28 2020— The Westmoreland police have charged 34-year-old Renis Pringle, otherwise called ‘Kushay’, a construction worker of Broughton district, Little London, Westmoreland with murder. Pringle is implicated in the Tuesday, May 19 death of 22-year-old Brian Gray, a security guard of Love Lane in West End, Negril. Gray was reportedly at his […]
Melbourne AU June 26 2020 A man has faced court following an alleged stabbing attack at a Kmart store in Melbourne’s south-east last night. Police were called to the store at Westfield Fountain Gate in Narre Warren about 5.50pm following reports of a stabbing. Investigators were told security staff approached a man and a woman […]
Although this study did not include the U.S. security industry, much of the information is similar to what security officers in the U.S. experience. SINGAPORE June 22 2020 – One in three security officers recently surveyed said they have experienced physical or verbal abuse or both in their course of work, with verbal abuse being the […]