Nine security guards were arrested in downtown Minneapolis Thursday during a union-led protest. About 75 members of Service Employees International Union Local 26 gathered near the IDS Center in an effort to urge five security firms to offer a better health insurance package to employees. Twin Cities security guards walked off the job for one day last month to push for better labor terms. A union spokesman said eight others who were not members of Local 26 were also arrested … [Read more...]
SBU takes action against security guard
Security Services and the office of student life have identified and taken action against the university security guard caught in pictures covering up damage he incurred when he backed his van over a student's bike and into a university-owned bike rack. "There was an investigation and appropriate action was taken by the director of Security Services," Roger Keener, interim vice provost for student life, said. Keener said because of confidentiality policies he could not release the guard's … [Read more...]
Private Security Guards Are Homeland Defense’s Weak Link
Private Security Guards - Security Guard Officers - Security Guard Services 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 … [Read more...]
Attempted Carjacker Shot By Security Guard
Local Security Guard News BURTON, Mich -- A security guard at Kings Lane apartments said he shot a man who attempted to steal his car Monday evening. According to police, a man threatened the guard with a handgun and tried to take off with his vehicle. The security guard then shot the suspect twice with a .357 Magnum.The 21-year-old suspect was last reported in critical condition at an area hospital. Police said prosecutors are not expected to file charges against the security guard. … [Read more...]
South Beach Security Guard Shot
SOUTH BEACH SECURITY GUARD A guard, a druggie, a gun -- a South Beach tragedy Ernest ''Ricky'' Heape, 29, was a troubled drug user before he killed a South Beach security guard and then himself, police said. John Ruiz was a burly father of two, a security guard who once helped deliver a baby on the floor of a Wal-Mart. Ernest ''Ricky'' Heape was a violent fugitive whose talent for drawing was overwhelmed by a dysfunctional family decimated by drugs. Their lives collided Wednesday … [Read more...]
Security Guard Arrested In Pub Slaying
INDIANAPOLIS -- A security guard was arrested Friday in connection with a shooting that killed another security guard outside an east-side Indianapolis pub early New Year's Day, police said.Sunungura Rusununguko, 29, turned himself in to police Friday evening and was held on a charge of murder in connection with the early Tuesday shooting of Ronnie Croom Jr. at Durty Nelly's Eatery and Pub. Police say the shooting happened early Tuesday morning as security guard workers were ushering people … [Read more...]
Wackenhut Security Guard Company Miami News
Wackenhut Security Guards in the News - Miami Executive Resigns in Storm Over Sleeping Guards Wackenhut, a private security guard firm that guards 21 commercial nuclear power plants around the United States, said yesterday that its chief executive resigned during continuing controversy about security guards caught napping at a Pennsylvania reactor last year. Gary A. Sanders had been Wackenhut's chairman and chief executive since 2003. Over the past year, Sanders has been engulfed by … [Read more...]
Wackenhut Security Guards Company
Chosing a security guard company Take the case as reported in yesterday'sWashington Post involving a security guard by the name of Kerry Beal. Beal went to work for Wackenhut Corp., who provided the security guards to protect Peach Bottom nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. He was so disturbed by Wakenhut's security guards sleeping on duty that he reported it to supervisors. The supervisors told him to be a "team player". Not satisfied with being told to look the other way, Mr. Beal reported … [Read more...]
Security Guards To Be New Safeguard For City Transit
Undercover security guards will now ride San Francisco's famed cable cars in a plan to revive a program from the San Francisco Municipal Railway to make sure the crews aren't pocketing cash fares, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. The transit agency ended a similar covert operation more than a year ago, but officials want to give it another try. The Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees Muni, has included the "cable car observers" program in a proposed contract for … [Read more...]
