EDMONTON Canada Aug 20 2018 –As marijuana goes corporate in Canada, some police officers are making the move from busting grow-ops to protecting them. Rick Martens, head of security for the 800,000-square-foot Aurora Sky cannabis production facility just south of Edmonton, was a police officer for 26 years before retiring as a sergeant in 2012. When […]
Edinburgh UK Aug 18 2018 A 57-year-old man has been accused of providing four security workers for a local nightclub who did not have the proper licence. George Haig of Bryce Avenue, Edinburgh, denies the offence, which is said to have happened at the Indigo Rooms in Overhaugh Street, Galashiels, on December 30. Keith Brown, […]
Toronto Canada Aug 16 2018 The Toronto Police Service is moving to a verified response model for burglar alarm activations, according to the Canadian Security Association. The new model will take effect on Sept. 10 this year. According to the new guidelines: The Toronto Police Service will no longer respond to alarms solely on the request […]
Cornwall England Aug 15 2018 Police have told shop workers to call the parents of young shoplifters instead of dialling 999 amid concerns that they are being swamped by emergency calls, it has been claimed. A city centre security guard, based in Truro, Cornwall, said police advised him that those caught attempting to steal […]
Manchester England Aug 14 2018 A Tesco security guard was punched unconscious in a vicious and unprovoked attack after a dispute with a shopper at a store in Gorton. The violent incident happened at the Tesco Extra branch on Hyde Road at around 1.10am on Saturday. Police said the man, aged in his 50s, was the […]
South Africa Aug 13 2018 One of Oostermoed Security’s brave reaction officers was attacked by a hippo yesterday morning (Thursday, 9 August) at about 3.10am in a game reserve in the Cradle of Humankind. According to a Facebook post from Conserv Security, their control room received a call the previous night at 11.50pm from 29-year-old […]
Melbourne AU Aug 12 2018 Staff at a Woolworths supermarket in Melbourne’s south east say they feel unsafe at work after security guards were removed despite a spate of physical and verbal assaults by customers. More than 50 workers at the Moorabbin store have signed a petition calling for a permanent security guard following a series of […]
Sutton Cornfield England Aug 12 2018 A shoplifting suspect was allegedly held by security guards in Sutton Coldfield for four hours before police finally arrived, a meeting was told. Andrew Mitchell had chaired a meeting with the town’s head of police, Chief Superintendent Jane Bailey, and business bosses over rising crime. The meeting heard concerns about […]
Coquitlam, British Columbia Canada Aug 11 2018 Shopping malls usually welcome your business and invite anyone and everyone but one visitor did not receive such a warm welcome at the Henderson Place Mall Friday. It seems that it was very hot outside and this visitor found it to be much nicer and cooler in the […]
Fredericton Canada Aug 10 2018 Canadian police report that two of the four people killed in an apartment shooting Friday morning in Fredericton, New Brunswick were police officers, and that the suspect has been taken into custody. Fredericton Police tweeted Friday, Aug. 10 that there are not releasing names in this “difficult time,” and that they […]