Security Training
Tourism Security: Aruba’s Bike Patrol
The Aruba Effect Post pandemic, vacationers are ready to make up for lost time, and tropical paradises like Aruba are seeing the surge. Aruba has always been one of those…
Read MoreMuseum Guards Decide
Our ability to mitigate threat is built on awareness, it’s the first important step for detection which then leads to deterrence and deployment. It seems obvious that those who are…
Read MoreTransit Insecurity
Violent crime on city streets and around transit hubs are in the news every day. A little old lady gets punched in the face at a bus stop, someone is…
Read MoreOfficer Joe’s on Post
The security industry has some unique characteristics which influence its management. What works just fine for management in other business sectors does not work well in security. As background, decades…
Read MoreManchester Attack Security Mistakes
Terrorist with suicide backpack Last October 2019, the U.K. Home Secretary set up a Public Inquiry to investigate the deaths of the victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack. Twenty…
Read MoreOnline Learning is Awesome
Chameleon isn’t new to e-Learning; we’ve been crafting online training for over a decade. The reasons we dived into online curriculum design are especially valid today when far more of…
Read MoreBetter Security Officers
Security officers are minimum wage workers. Their typically lower pay is often cited as a reason for high attrition rates and the unfortunate, sometimes disparaging impression that security officers are…
Read MoreSixteen Years of Predictive Profiling
Back in 2002, I was driving with a colleague to see a client in Palmdale, California, a couple hours’ drive outside of Los Angeles. This was only a few months…
Read MoreUnder-trained Guards
Ask a private security company manager about officer training and they will tell you that of course, their guards are fully trained. What kind of training does the average security…
Read MoreSimple – not Simplistic – Emergency Response Procedures
Simplistic ideas and procedures by their nature do not withstand reality tests. This is the case for many emergency lock-down procedures where unfortunately the essence of the SOP is to…
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