The Security Guard

The Security Guard
About the Author:  Darrell Fugatta - Security Consultant www.GuardServicesUSA.com
An informatative and brief look at the career of a security guard.

The Common Impression A Security Guard

People visualize a security guard as an individual uniformed who stands guard all day in banks, educational and related institutions for the securiy of those occupying these buildings. It is particularly unusual that security guard officers are seen in action. In reality, all they appear to do is usually to provide a type of visual signal to the likely threat of crime. Considerably like a security camera, a security guard can stop the event of a prepared crime from happening by basically being present within a development.

The security guard is the underdog in the security business, whether it be building security, residential security, bank security, corporate security, etc. Right? Wrong! This can be fairly real for some, but what they do not know is that the security guard can be a buildings or establishments only line of security in the circumstance of a crime. Security cameras are only supporting evidences to the crime. Security guards, on the other hand, would be the real-time safeguard to stop a crime. This thought makes establishment proprietors aware of the benefit of carefully choosing the right security firm.

Despite the fact that many people think of the job of a security guard as being lowly, more and more individuals are now seeing a different picture of the security guard. Crimes are in no way promised to disappear and the simplest of crime such as harassment can involve the mediation of a security guard. In excess of acting as a protector of the establishment, the security guard is additionally present to help visitors of a building in the absence of an information booth. But this is just some of the real work that security guards performs.

The Job Of A Security Guard

Security guards scan visitors, issue passes to entry ways of establishments and give guidance to visitors and direct them towards proper locale(s).

The perfect security guard may have a good photographic memory to adequately observe the guests and visitors that come and go, he/she cannot always depend on security cameras and instead must rely on his/her individual capability to recognize faces in real-time. There are actually instances of prevented crimes or cases solved due to the fact the security guard identified a criminal or a wanted person(s) entering a premises.

Throughout his/her duty as a security guard, he/she may have to enforce the mandate of the establishment or building being served. It is his/her duty to primarily serve the employer and enforce rules to keep order at the establishment or public function that he/she is working. There have been circumstances of brushes with other security guard or law enforcement agencies because the purpose of the law enforcement agency conflicted with the orders given to the security guard of the establishment.

The security guard of an establishment additionally has job activities other than standing shield at the front of an establishment. A security guard can instead be assigned to patrol locations which might be regarded as either a danger or is exclusive from the public eye. Patrolling of these types of locations may also be as security from vandalism, fire and theft.

Apart from this, a security guard may also be assigned inside a designated control room; a space where feeds from security cameras are frequently located. The control room is used to observe encounters at strategic points of facilities or public locations much like the airport or the mall. Related to this is the work at the airport safety checkpoints in which safety employees is expected to verify the baggage of every passenger for unsafe weapons or harmful substances or materials.

It has been thought that security guards usually are not mobile and only remain at the employer's establishment, as this is not usually the case. A security guard is likely to be assigned to work armoured trucks and vans that ship cash and valuables to the bank, atm machines and retail customers or associates. They have to ensure safe and sound delivery of cash from the main bank to ATM machines in numerous parts of the city. A security guard assigned to an armoured van or car is mobile; anyplace the van goes, he goes as well. He will leave his posts only once the transfer of cash from van to atm machines has been affected. The security guard takes a great chance when mobile and carrying enormous quantities of money or valuables. For this reason, banks usually utilize dummy armoured vehicles to ensure that criminals will have no thought of the exact timetable of the move or delivery of valuables.

Lastly, a security guard has to make certain that emergency and safety approaches are always followed in the case of a fire alarm, bomb threat and other such emergencies.

Present Conditions for the Security Guard

A security guard ordinarily works for private security agencies, as retail and mall security, industrial security, hotel security, residential security, and for museums and like-minded companies. Based on existing statistics in the Unites States, the highest concentration of security guards and other relevant occupations can be found in New York, District of Columbia, Nevada, Florida, and Hawaii.

Though globally, the employment growth for security guards is more than average, steady growth in surveillance engineering had decreased the demand for security guards. Establishment owners, on the other hand, are unable to disregard the assessment capabilities of humans versus that of the machine; even regardless of the statistical calculating power of machine.

Generally, security guards are required to have earned a minimum of a high school diploma to become employed. If one would like to be utilized as an airport security guard or work for the federal government, he/she is expected to go through professional training from his employer. To be an armoured car driver, a potential security guard needs to have a professional driver's license. In some circumstances, security guards are expected by their employers to carry a service firearm. If this be the case, a gun license is needed.