We are pleased to announce that Rachel Gorecki has joined our administrative team as our assistant office manager. Her new position will support all administrative functions as well as assist business development, operations, human resources and ownership. Please welcome Rachel.

​We had a very good year in 2019 thanks to a superior management team and great new and old clients and employees. We celebrated over a casual holiday lunch.
 
Seated Christy Beaver Office Mgr, Dan Aloe President/Owner, Mark Drear Vice President
Standing Dylan Chappell Assist Ops Mgr, Mike Virgin Director of Operations

​Essential to the success of a protection operation is a clear understanding of what actually threatens a property.  A retail store, off-shift factory, and a high security facility will all have vastly different, but equally valid security needs. They have different assets that need protection, and different means of intrusion would be used to get to them.  Implementing a security plan designed for a different type of property can be highly ineffective.
 
To ensure that the security plan is both reliable and flexible, and also practical enough to be effective, the property itself should be visited and explored during the plan’s creation. Consultation can be done with officers who have protected that or similar sites, and previous break-ins or incidents at similar environments reviewed. The plan should be a living document that both the security provider and client requesting the service are open to the possibility of modifying if the operational situation changes.
 
When there is a full comprehension of the environment and risks that it faces, a complete operation can be realized. Putting together deterrent factors, depth defenses with delay barriers, and reaction protocols help to make a property as secure as possible.

​A barrier is an obstacle that defines the limits to an area and prevents penetration by persons, animals, or vehicles. It can be either natural or artificial, and both types can be incorporated into a security operation.
 
A basic security concept is to surround your target with multiple barriers, a concept known as defense in depth. This allows for a mixture of deterrent and delay barriers. Perimeter barriers should properly warn an intruder to keep out, either with explicit wording or intuitive design, and thus defeat an intrusion without actually being tested. The explicit display of present security and property demarcation eliminates any chance of accidental intrusion.
 
Barriers that are meant to function after the perimeter is breached operate differently under the assumption that any intruder past that point has willingly and purposefully ignored deterrent measures. At this point, the purpose switched to delaying the intruder. Any physical barrier can be surpassed with enough effort and time, therefore the design logic should not be to prevent the possibility of the barrier being breached, but to make it require so much effort that it is not worth it, or so much time that the intrusion cannot be completed.

​In some security operations, once the protection plan is put into place, the status and quality of the operation is not checked until an incident occurs that establishes poor performance by the post’s defenses or the officer’s manning it. Regular evaluations by direct supervision and higher management ensures both that the integrity of [the defense] is maintained, and that the highest quality of officers is recognized, rewarded, and retained.
 
Assessments should be made both by local management, as well as by independent supervisors with no direct ties to the post to avoid complacency. Features checked should include at the very least the physical state of the post, the condition of any delay barriers and deterrence warnings, as well as the physical appearance of the officer and a check of their response to management’s arrival and their understanding of the post’s orders.
 
All observations should be documented for filing and evaluation. Being made available to all levels of management and the owners of the property, these reports allow an easy determination as to whether enhanced security measures need to be implemented, or additional training of officers performed.