Lesson 1
Roles and Responsibilities of the Proprietary Security Officer
The objective of this lesson is to familiarize and instruct the individual on the roles and responsibilities of proprietary security officers and employers. In particular, the lesson will outline the difference between proprietary security officers and private citizens, as well as identify specific job performance criteria and duties for security officers. Topic objectives covered will include:
• Examining the Role of a Proprietary Security Officer
• Understanding the Duties and Responsibilities of the Job
• Defining the Characteristics of Service Oriented Security
• Comparing the Role of a Proprietary Security Officer with that of Private Citizens
• Understanding Authority
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Private Citizens, on the other hand, have no legal obligation to stop others from committing crimes or to help those who have been victimized. They may feel morally compelled to act if they happen to witness a crime as it is occurring, or they may hope to organize in such a way that it preempts criminal activity, but there is no legal precedent or obligation to do so. FOR EXAMPLE: Imagine that you are a private citizen who is shopping at a Costco warehouse. As you are pushing your shopping cart down an aisle of clothing merchandise, you notice a woman a few yards away wearing a long overcoat who has her back to you. She doesn't see or notice you. She looks around, grabs a shirt from the pile in front of her, and stuffs it into her coat. She quickly walks toward the exit, telling the worker positioned at the door that she didn't find what she wants and is exiting. She leaves without being stopped or …show more content…
While they obviously never want to let an offender get away or think that it is permissible to violate the law, there is a certain amount of customer service and even deferring to subjects (or clients/customers) which can actually help security officers on the job and at the same time enhance the proprietor's business reputation.
Consider the following scenario:
A father takes his six-year-old daughter to Disneyland for a day of fun and excitement. They purchase an "A” ticket which gives them access to many of the park's rides and attractions designated for small children. After a few hours, however, the girl decides she wants to ride Space Mountain, which requires an "E” ticket. The father sees that the line for Space Mountain is quite long, but that it will take more time to return to the front of the park, purchase a new ticket, and get back in line. By then, his daughter will be exhausted and in a bad mood.
He decides just to get back in line and wait for the ride. After 25 minutes, they reach the front of the line. The Proprietary Security Officer who is stationed at the front of the line checks their tickets and sees that they are the wrong kind to get on to Space Mountain. The father pleads with officer, saying his daughter doesn't have the stamina to get back into line all over
another line, and another wait. This has to be the most unpleasant part of a
Upon entering, he noticed that the line was too busy for him to wait. He then ran out from the store and told his friend to take him somewhere else. (“Understanding Graham v. Connor”).
stares at her in the eye the scene seem to freeze for a slight second.
They learn that people are getting sick and on the verge of dying. This causes a little but of emotional stir during the rest of the trip. They keep on ascending and descending to keep on going to get to the top. The trip continues and people end up dying. By the end of the trip, there were twelve people who died during this trip. It took the toll of many people, and two survived.
Security is as diverse as the people who manage these teams or the organizations who hire them. The Types of Security can be classified into a large amount, and this report captures the most prevalent of the bunch. Loss prevention is one of the most common Types of Security, present at larger department stores and shopping
This is demonstrated in the letter, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. defends his decision to taking direct action in the city of Birmingham. He states that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (King 1). This demonstrates how being a bystander just leads to everyone being harmed since allowing an injustice to occur leads to the suffering of many people. Allowing injustices to take place enables evil and corruption to expand, and that leads to people being oppressed and discriminated. Even when the bystander tries to avoid problems by not joining the conflict, he is just bringing more problems to himself because he is allowing his community to be harmed. A bystander subconsciously harms himself by allowing others to be harmed. Therefore, the detrimental effects of being a bystander confirm why an individual should not be
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
“AAAHHHH”, the monkey screamed. “WE HALF TO LEAVE THIS PLANET” the leader monkey said. Every monkey got on the ship and left, well, everyone but the leader monkey made it on the ship. By the time every monkey got on the ship it was already too late.
However, that opposing argument can be found as hypocritical. If a person was getting robbed in an ally and they saw many witnesses taking no action they would likely be upset by the fact of no one is offering any assistance to them. Bystanders should put themselves into the shoes of the person in need and ask themselves how they would expect others to respond if they were the one in need. Often time’s bystanders take no intervention because of the diffusion of responsibility. “When there are four or more people who are bystanders to an emergency situation, the likelihood that at least one of them will help is just 31%” (Gaille). Another statistic shows that 85% of people who were bystanders would intervene if they knew or at least though they were the only person present in the situation. Often the only thing keeping people from intervening in bystander situations are other people. It is important for bystanders to understand the statistics of the people around them in order to create action because often times they do not realize that if they were to intervene other people would likely support them in the situation. Bystanders need to make it a personal responsibility to intervene in situations for the good of other. If people were to always take action the amount of bullying, sexual harassment, crime, and many other significant issues within a society would drastically
Whitman, M., & Mattord, H. (2010). Management of information security. (3rd ed., p. 6). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Management- private security manager is answerable and accountable for improving definite programs in training security employees or pe...
Public officers have their main duty as protecting the society and ensure it is almost a crime-free zone while private security officers have their main duty as looking after the property they are to protect. Hiring of private security guards is for asset protection purposes, which will include people, property, and...
Implement physical security: - “Physical security protects people, data, equipment, systems, facilities and company assets” (Harris,
Johnson, B. R. (2005). Principles of Security Management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Not all security guards are out in public, depending on position they can be watching through a camera. For example I would compare my quote to Dillard’s because they have cameras and security but security is looking through cameras and not physically there. “Security guards, also called security officers, protect property, enforce rules on the property and deter criminal activity”. Security guards are protection of a certain property to make sure rules are not broken. Rules are always broken that’s why you have a lower type of law enforcement. Being a security guard is important to understand because it requires a lot of dedication and it’s not only your life that can be in danger. You should always follow procedures and pay attention to your surrounding because you never know when or where danger lies.