England July 15 2017 Money laundering, immigration offences, assault and possession of Class A drugs are among the reasons for arrests made at Wimbledon this year. The Metropolitan Police have been operating the biggest crackdown in Championships history, with armed officers patrolling the All England Club. Just two days of the Grand Slam event remain, with […]
Sydney AU July 13 2017 Security officers at several Sydney hospitals are fighting plans that would force them to wear a suit, which they say is “inappropriate and restrictive”. Seventeen guards at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have unanimously voted against Sydney Local Health District’s (SLHD) plans to roll out new security uniforms, saying they need functional […]
Brisbane AU July 11 2017 An 81-year-old man tried to stab a nurse in the face with a pen and attacked other staff with a fire hose before he was allegedly killed by a security guard, a court has heard. Theodorus van der Veen was admitted to Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital in April 2016 for a […]
Ajax Canada July 6 2017 Police have charged a 32-year-old man working as a security guard in Ajax after a 77-year-old man told police he was assaulted on Tuesday evening. Durham Regional Police say they were called to an address on Old Kingston Road, near Church Street and Kingston Road West at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday for […]
Prince George Canada July 5 2017 The Prince George RCMP are calling this morning’s shooting incident at the Pine Centre Mall a robbery. Just before 4 am, police received a weapons call along the 3000 block of Massey Drive. When officers arrived they discovered that a masked suspect drove a vehicle through an entrance of […]
Calgary Canada July 4 2017 Boarding at the Victoria Park-Stampede LRT station, it didn’t take long to find what they were looking for. Taking one end of the half-full rail car, transit enforcement officers Brian Meanley and Mathieu Young begin asking the late-evening passengers to present their transit tickets — a daily routine in the seemingly […]
JOHANNESBURG South Africa July 2 2017 — Authorities at Johannesburg’s main international airport say an armed robber has been killed in a shootout and another has been arrested after they held up security guards in the cargo area. The management of O.R. Tambo International Airport says the shootout with police and security guards occurred Saturday at […]
OSHAWA, Ont. June 29 2017 — Police say a security officer is facing charges following a number of thefts from the courthouse where he worked. Durham regional police say they began investigating after receiving several reports of items being stolen from secure areas at the courthouse in Oshawa, Ont. Investigators say the incidents occurred in April, […]
WAGGA AU June 28 2017 Security guards will trial body-worn cameras and load bearing vests in a radical attempt to curb the city’s rampant rate of crime. G-Tec’s latest scheme will see staff issued with uniform-mounted filming devices in the coming weeks, allowing them to capture live footage of assaults, thefts, vandalism and burglaries. Company director […]
Brisbane AU June 24 2017 A former armoured cash-car driver who was the mastermind of a brazen series of armed robberies which netted $176,000 – including an “inside job” on a fellow security cash guard — has been jailed. Bradley Scott Kennedy, 39, was in the District Court in Brisbane where Judge Terry Martin […]