On the face of it, hiring security personnel can seem like just another expense for a business, but some industries cannot afford not to have them around. After all, they not only keep your premises safe and deter crimes, they also improve customer satisfaction by...
No Thank You, Mr. Grüber With the holidays fast approaching, our thoughts turn to those Christmas classics that brought the whole family together around the television. One such film is Die Hard, the action masterpiece about an Everyman trying to beat the bad guys and save...
The National Conversation It may seem strange to want to forecast any potential crime in the upcoming months, since so many disparate and unknowable factors can affect it, but that is exactly what criminologists and politicians do as the calendar rolls over each year. In a...
Looking After Number One In the unrelenting rat race that is life, we can often become sidetracked by hundreds of different cares throughout the day; lunch meetings, product demos, birthday parties, community service opportunities — an endless list of good and worthy causes call for our...
Help, As You Need It There’s a quote attributed to a famous TV performer who said, with a certain degree of self-deprecation, “my job isn’t that important; when there’s an emergency, no one ever shouts ‘quick, call an actor!’” As much as we love our entertainers,...
Protecting someone’s life, whether that be securing their person, their assets, or their business, is no small matter. People look to security companies to keep them safe from an ever-increasing number of threats and expect their bodyguards to be able to anticipate dangers of all...
Crime can strike anywhere. No matter how progressive a workplace is, with plenty of initiatives aimed at improving employees’ morale and productivity, or giving a shot in the arm to the general organizational health that ensures basic workplace privileges, a corporation can still be a...
The unhappy truth about failed relationships is that they can sometimes result in outcomes of prolonged hostility, even to the point of frequent fighting and/or stalking. While cold, hard data is hard to come by in terms of how many restraining orders are issued yearly...
A protection team is only as good as its ability to keep people safe. That safety might manifest in different ways — whether patrolling the grounds of a building at night or providing evaluations of a company’s current security setup — but each type of...
What changes a man or woman from a novice into a professional? Journalist Malcolm Gladwell says that 10,000 hours of concerted practice will turn a person into an expert in their respective field. And yet, 10,000 hours of plunking on the piano keys without help...