Product Description: Former police and military personnel possess attractive skill sets for the private security industry; however, the transition to the corporate arena is not without challenges. Competition for these jobs is fierce. Many candidates possess degrees in security management―some having spent their entire professional careers in private security...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this guide is to provide the officer field training which will make them a quality security professional. It addresses topics like: vehicle patrol techniques, foot patrol techniques, report writing, arrest adn control techniques, interview techniques and conflict resolution...read more

PRIVATE SECURITY AND THE LAW is a textbook analysis of significant practices in the security industry that relate to law, regulation, licensure and constitutional dilemmas according to case and statutory authority. It is a treatise on the state of the law that governs the security industry and its operatives. The text delivers up to date information on the legal requirements witnessed by most security firms. In addition, it dwells heavily on the liability problems common to security operations, including negligence and tortious liability, civil actions commonly litigated, and strategies to avoid troublesome causes of action that effect business efficiency. From another angle, the work intensely examines the constitutional and due process dimensions of private security work and affords the reader a look at how case law applies certain remedies to wronged parties. Recent cases, and the trends sure to follow, are highlighted throughout the project. Finally, the text is filled with checklists, data and other useful information that aids the security practitioner in applying theory to practice. * Up to date case law analysis provides cutting edge legal treatment of evolving standards* Complicated material is presented in a down-to-earth, readable style, perfect for the student of security or security professional* Over 200 tables and illustrations allow the reader speedy access to precise data

Product Description: In this straight-from-the-horse's-mouth guide to jobs in the private security field, author Leigh Wade shares what he's learned during 30 years of working all sorts of armed and unarmed positions. With honesty and humor, he describes the hierarchy of private security jobs, starting with unarmed fixed-post positions and moving up through armed guards, bouncers, correctional officers, armed couriers, bodyguards and the top of the field - computer/information security experts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Outsourcing Security provides a complete management guide for contracting support services, particularly those associated with protective organizations. It helps security and facility managers through the quagmire of conceptual planning, proposal evaluation and contract negotiation, and helps them to realize cost savings, improve productivity, and elevate the quality level of the contracted service...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides a comprehensive introduction to private security and covers the many and varied sectors and operations that comprise it. Taking a systems approach to exploring private and public security, Private Security in America provides a balanced treatment of practical examples, technology, history, documents, and research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Protective Security Law', Second Edition is a text on the legal rights available to security officers, corporations, partnerships and individually owned businesses for the protection of their property from thievery by employees, customers, and others. It was prepared primarily for non-lawyers, but it also presents thoroughly documented coverage of the entire legal spectrum for corporate counsel and individual lawyers who must advise clients regarding security operations. In addition to its practical application, 'Protective Security Law', Second Edition is a text that is highly suitable for instructional purposes in junior colleges and other educational institutions offering courses relating to protective security. It is valuable in police training schools, because it presents a uniquely simplified treatment of the law regarding police powers of arrest, search and seizure, interrogation and other aspects of law enforcement. This reference is an invaluable source of information on the legal rights and responsibilities of security personnel and merchants regarding thievery and other intrusions upon their lawful interest. An appendix contains statutory provisions from all 50 states and the District of Columbia regarding protective issues of particular concern to merchants and security personnel. An invaluable source of information on the legal rights and responsibilities of security personnel. Presents a uniquely simplified treatment of the law regarding police powers. Highly suitable for instructional purposes in junior colleges and other educational institutions offering courses relating to protective security.

Product Description: Constant change and apparent self-contradictions seem to be integral parts of the numerous laws that confront people making security-related decisions. Why is it that sometimes it is necessary to get a warrant before making a search or give warnings before conducting an interview and sometimes it isn't? In some situations it seems legally safe to require drug tests while in others, the law seems to say it can't be done...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This publication represents the results of a descriptive research project performed in 1989 and 1990 by Hallcrest Systems, Incorporated, of McLean, Virginia, under grant (89-IJ-CX-0002) from the National Institute of Justice, U.S...read more

Product Description: Foreword by R.V.G.Clarke. The first and only book that places private security squarely in the traditions of social science. "...flawless performance..." Journal of Security Administration. This is the only text that provides a clear and cogent theoretical and historical context within which to understand private security...read more

Product Description: Book by Coverston, David Y.

Reveals the machinery and the methods of a powerful and potentially dangerous, American subculture, the private sector police forces, and shows the ways in which the private police infringe on our liberties