Fundamentals of Training for Security Officers - A Comprehensive Guide to What You Should Be, Know, and Do To Have a Successful Career as a Private Patrolman or Security Officer - Revised Sixth Printing

• NCJ Number: 73552
• Author(s): J D Peel
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 339 pages
• Sale Source: Charles C. Thomas
• Publication Type: Training (Handbook/Manual)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Revised sixth printing.

Annotation

This revised and expanded volume combines the features of textbook, procedural handbook, reference book, and technical manual to provide security officers and others with a practical guide to the security profession and the security function.

Abstract

Discussion begins with a consideration of security work as a career and the steps required in becoming a security officer. On-the-job requirements, duties, and responsibilities are then reviewed, including appearance, conduct, community relations, and off-duty responsibilities. Subsequent chapters provide detailed training in patrol techniques and procedures, arrests, and law, evidence, and court procedures. A chapter on weapons explains the use of deadly force, revolvers, and nonlethal weapons; while a review of unruly crowds covers types of crowds and mobs, and the development of a crowd into a mob and a mob into a riot. Next, a review of first aid details information on asphyxiation, external heart massage, bleeding, burns, poison, and shock, as well as how to move patients. A final chapter looks at a number of pertinent topics with which the security officer must be familiar: shoplifting and employee theft, burglary and robbery, check frauds, civil disorders, locks, keys, alarms, and dogs. A glossary of terms and an index follow the text; chapter notes and figures are included. Supplementary materials are appended. (Author abstract modified)