Champion National Security Case Study

Champion National Security has been providing contractual security services since the company was founded in 1980, by Jim Carrol and Robert Merino. For the past 35 years the company has grown to over 1500 employees in over 10 states including New Jersey (Champion National Security, 2015). Champion National Security provides services to commercial, industrial, medical, hospitality, and residential industries, in which all services are tailored to the client to include traditional security services, 24/7 surveillance and monitoring, loss prevention, luxury brand and protection, crisis management, parking lot and vehicle security, response and emergency response services, uniformed security, and discreet security (Champion National Security,

It is found indirectly in the various forms of law such as constitutional, judge-made, statutory and administrative rule-making; and it is implied in the substantive areas of law, criminal, tort and contract (Bilek, 1976). The private security employee, under the law, has equal powers of a private citizen to arrest, to defend himself and others, to investigate, and to carry firearms. Usually the officer does not have special police powers, nor is he subject to the constitutional and statutory limitations of public law enforcement. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects individuals against "unreasonable searches and seizures." This Amendment also limits the issuance of warrants to probable cause supported by "oath or affirmation" which describes the person or thing to be seized (arrested) or place to be searched (Bilek, 1976). Only a sworn peace officer can arrest when obtaining a warrant; a private person, unless given special authority, does not have the same power. Consequently, the only arrest private security personnel can lawfully execute, unless deputized or under special circumstances, is one that does not require a warrant (Bilek, 1976). Under common law, a felony arrest by a private citizen was permitted in order to protect the safety of the public, and arrest for a misdemeanor constituting a breach of the peace was permitted by a private citizen when

All training hours will teach all functions and activities which may be performed, that include but not limited to the protection of person or property, real or personal, from injury or harm or for any other purpose whatsoever; deterrence, observation, detection or reporting of incidents and activities for the purpose of preventing the theft, or the unlawful taking, conversion, concealment or misappropriation of goods, wares, merchandise, money, bonds, stocks, notes or other valuable instruments, documents, papers or articles; deterrence, observation, detection or reporting of incidents and activities for the purpose of preventing any unauthorized or unlawful activity, including but not limited to, robbery, burglary, arson, criminal mischief, vandalism or trespass, in accordance with the New Jersey State Police, Private Detective Unit and the Security Officer Registration Act which encompasses the Administrative, Substantive, and Procedural