The proposed bill in the Virginia state legislature would allow retired police officers to work as full-time school security officers while still collecting pension benefits.
How would you like to develop a security operation that can be benchmarked and based on reliable standards reduces liability, improves professionalism and makes a positive impression on the C suite. Wouldn’t it be nice if a blueprint for such an organization existed?
New York police have conducted more than 650,000 stop-and-frisks, but 84 percent of them are on black or Hispanic people – a statistic that has civil rights groups calling foul.
In an effort to bolster police forces by 700 officers, Alderman George Cardenas has proposed a "safety and security fee" of $5 per month for every household in Chicago.
The 2012 Matthew Simeone ASIS Award for Public Private Partnership Excellence will be presented to the Orlando and Orange County (Florida) Sheriff's Office at ASIS 2012 in September.
Industry partnerships, concerned law enforcement officers and resilient retailers have done their part in making a small dent in the growing problem of organized retail crime, but research shows there is still a lot of work to be done.
