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About Our School
The NEA Training
Center has been providing instruction since 1992 and is an authorized school for the New York
State Division of Criminal Justice Service - Bureau
of Municipal Police and the New York State Office of
Homeland Security.
In addition to the
state certification offerings we provide our own
curriculum on a number of subjects. Our instruction
staff independently has and average of 20 years or
more of experience in the fields of Law Enforcement,
Corrections, Personal Protection, Security and
Investigations, and are certified in the disciplines
instructed.
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Charlotte NC Nov 1 2011
By: Rick McCann
Founder-CEO
Private Officer International
Paul Cox, a 43 year old army veteran had served his country well during two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the recipient of numerous medals for bravery, combat heroism and good conduct.
When he retired from the army and moved back home to Illinois he took a job as an armed guard while pursing is life long ambition of becoming a police officer.
Everything was falling into place and life was good until 1:43 AM on February 9th.
It was at that very moment that his life would change forever, his dreams stolen from him in a flash of gunfire.
As he stood in the parking lot of a local nightclub, handcuffed, arrested for shooting a man that Cox said tried to run him over he repeated that he had done nothing wrong. He was only defending himself he said, as he had done many times before as a soldier and yet this time, he was the one in trouble.
While a trial by his peers found him not guilty of attempted murder, they did find that he had used unreasonable deadly force in a situation that he should have avoided and sentenced him to two years in prison on assault charges.
Jeremy Holmes, a Nashville TN security officer trying to protect customers from a drunk driver in the parking lot of a local nightclub also fired his weapon striking a patron sitting behind the wheel of his vehicle.
Holmes had ordered the man out of his car and when he failed to comply, Holmes fired striking the man in the neck. The security officer said that the driver tried backing over him but some witnesses denied that accusation and eventually the former security officer took a plea deal and was sentenced to a long prison term for murder.
Security officers as a whole are on the front line of security and safety for many businesses and most perform their duties to the best of their ability with limited training, low wages and little recognition for the jobs that they do. Often their intentions are just to do their job like anyone else and go home but instead many are becoming victims of crime, suspects in assaults and defendants in civil trials for unlawful arrests or excessive use of force.
While most states do require minimal training, the training has not kept up with the increasing demands that private security officers face each day.
Many security personnel have seen their duties expand and the old "Observe and Report" abolished to meet today's demands for a more proactive-hands-on security force.
Assaults on security officers have increased dramatically while armed confrontations have become a frequent part of the security officer's reality as they often respond to crimes in progress ranging from shoplifting to robbery and even murders.
In just three years, 2008-2011, more than 80,000 assaults on private security were reported resulting in more than 18,000 serious injuries and 267 deaths.
That number continues to grow as security officers are deployed in positions involving conflicts and crimes, emergencies and armed felons.
While few other professions besides law enforcement has seen such violence against employees, no single state or federal agency has taken the increase serious, conducted studies or investigations or looked into ways of making the workplace safer for security officers.
Nor has any security industry regulator deemed the training requirements of security officers in their state to be inadequate for the duties and requirements of today's security officer.
Security officer Jessie Monroe Walker 63, was asked to intervene when a man and woman began arguing in the parking lot of a jewelry store in Knoxville TN where he was on duty as an armed security officer in 2009. He too responded and tried to perform his duties to the best of his ability while protecting himself. But when things escalated, he too improperly used deadly force, shooting both persons involved in the confrontation and wound up in prison for aggravated assault.
Nationwide, arrests, lawsuits and prison is often part of the growing equation for the private security industry. Many security employees unnecessarily face these hardships, liabilities and harm alone because of poor training, a lack of management and concern for the employee's well-being and the nature of the current private security environment and standards.
PRIVATE OFFICER INTERNATIONAL
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