Charlotte NC February 10 2020 During the first five weeks of the 2020-year, private security officers across the country have killed sixteen people and shot twenty-seven others. Washington DC special police officers returned fire at an apartment complex striking a transgender woman who later died. A firearm was recovered from her but police never determined […]
Charlotte NC January 27 2020 On the morning of March 5th 2012, Martha Whitestone walked into the local office of a national security service and asked if they were hiring. A single mother of four who had been unemployed for nearly two months and living with a friend and her six kids, Martha was desperate to […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. January 10 2020 Security is big business in Nashville Tennessee. From honky-tonks to festivals to country music concerts and sporting events, the music city is booming. With the rising crime and explosive growth of the city, anyone working in the security industry or who has a security business is at the right place, […]
Charlotte NC January 2 2020 The sounds that we heard New Year’s Eve was more than just common fireworks. Across the nation, between 12:01 on Tuesday and 06:00 on Wednesday, there were 63 known shootings involving private security resulting in at least four security officers being shot. Of those shot during the eve of New […]
Charlotte NC December 2 2019 Violence has struck the security industry during the past seven days as nine security officers have been shot. Security officers in Mississippi, Arizona, North Carolina, New York, Missouri have all been shot on duty leaving two dead and seven with serious to critical injuries. In the latest shootings, a Kansas […]
Bloomington MN November 29 2019 With the Christmas shopping season upon us and Black Friday shopping well underway, we thought that we would take a closer look at one of the largest malls in America and that is of course, the Mall of America. To give you an idea of the size, training and ability […]
Charlotte NC November 11 2019 A new study released on Friday, clearly outlines the hours of when uniform security, loss prevention and campus officers are most likely to be assaulted, injured and killed. Using statistics from news reports, law enforcement incident reports, private agency injury reports, US workplace violence data and our own inhouse database […]
Charlotte NC November 7 2019 Police in multiple states are reporting an uptick in armored truck robberies and one alarming fact stands out in all of these robberies-violence. In all of the armored truck robberies, force was used. More specifically, police and the FBI say that heavily armed men were waiting in the shadows for […]
Charlotte NC October 15 2019 For years, Private Officer International has been reporting on security officer injuries and deaths occurring at businesses that often times were not legally being operated or who were skirting the line between legal and illegal. Now, a new study shows that security officer injuries and deaths at illegal or questionable […]
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