Low Wage, High Turn-Over Professional Guarding Your Property
As a security guard I know this is true. Sadly many officers do not get treated very well and when things are reported, it depends on if the company cares or not. it could be extremely important, but fall on death ears. Most of those who work are struggling and don't wish to be noticed. Others are going to school and are trying to live while working. These are the people who get taken advantage of.
Read the article from USA Today. It paints a sad picture of the people who protect us when we enter buildings and public areas.
SOURCE: USA TODAY
Private security guards are Homeland's weak link
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
They are the first line of defense against terrorists. But more often than not, private security guards who protect millions of lives and billions of dollars in real estate offer a false sense of security.
Most of the nation's 1 million-plus guards are unlicensed, untrained and not subject to background checks. Their burgeoning, $12 billion-a-year industry is marked by high turnover, low pay, few benefits and scant oversight. And according to government officials and industry experts, little has changed since Sept. 11, 2001.
As the demand for guards increases, security companies "find someone on the street and put him in a uniform, and before he's finished buttoning up, they put him on a post," says Henry Nocella, vice president of Professional Security Bureau, a private company based in New Jersey that employs about 4,000 guards. Thus the name: "rent-a-cops."
For 16 months since terrorists toppled the World Trade Center towers and destroyed part of the Pentagon, government officials have worked to secure the homeland. But there are no federal laws governing the private security industry…
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