New Westminster Canada May 16 2021 New Westminster Police are investigating a case in which a security guard was allegedly assaulted with a baseball bat. New Westminster police are seeking assistance in locating two suspects who assaulted a security guard with a baseball bat. Members of the New Westminster Police Department attended the area of […]
Bromsgrove, England May 12 2021 Security specialist, GMS Group, is offering its 500 staff extra support to tackle the “hidden” challenges around mental health following the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May 2021). Working with West Bromwich-based charity Kaleidoscope Plus Group, which GMS supports with fundraising, the company will be […]
Victoria BC Canada May 8 2021 A man was arrested Friday morning after he allegedly chased two security guards near a Blanshard Street temporary housing facility while armed with a knife. Security guards asked a man outside the housing facility to leave and police say the man responded by brandishing a knife before he chasing the […]
Victoria Australia May 1 2021 A private security company involved in Victoria’s botched hotel quarantine scheme is suing the state government to recover nearly $10 million in unpaid invoices. Unified Security was one of three companies contracted to provide guards for the first iteration of the program, which was designed to stop coronavirus from spreading […]
St Thomas Canada April 28 2021 A woman suffered minor injuries after being attacked at a homeless shelter in St. Thomas. According to St. Thomas police, a man tackled the woman to the ground around 8 a.m. on Friday and repeatedly hit her with a cigarette receptacle. A security guard was also assaulted while trying […]
Vancouver Canada April 27 2021 A 42-year-old man was arrested around 3:30 a.m. April 25 at Drake Street and Pacific Boulevard after a struggle with police. The Vancouver Police Department was responding to a report that a man threatened a security guard with a hammer. When they arrived the man allegedly made threatening gestures at police. […]
Dublin Ireland April 24 2021 CABINET HAS APPROVED legislation that will allowed for the regulation of private security employed to assist in enforcing court orders. In April 2019, former Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan ordered his officials to review the situation surrounding these operators, and what regulation existed, in the wake of the removal of a […]
Vancouver Canada April 20 2021 Two Vancouver security guards and a bystander allegedly got a face full of bear spray at a downtown liquor store police are reporting. Earlier this week two Vancouver security guards and a bystander were sprayed with bear spray from a not-so-subtle thief. According to a release from Vancouver Crime Stories […]
Repentigny Canada April 20 2021 Repentigny police on Thursday announced they had launched an investigation into a fraudulent attempt by a man to access COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy. The incident occurred last Sunday at a Jean Coutu pharmacy on Notre Dame St. in the municipality, which is off the eastern tip of Montreal Island. […]
Saskatoon Canada April 18 2021 A video showing a security guard attempting to handcuff a woman and wrestle her to the ground outside a Saskatoon grocery store Wednesday is drawing the ire of the store’s owner. A roughly nine-minute video shared on Facebook shows the man trying to arrest an Indigenous woman outside the FreshCo […]