Helene
Elgin,#2Consumer Comment
Thu, November 24, 2005
I read this hoping to find a new way that private contract security companies can rip people off--- especially employees. You were supposed to have some sort of license to be an armed security offier. in Texas, it is called COMMISSION. The employer usually takes the cost for it out of your check but the company has to pay the State licensing and regulatory agency. Surely, even Oklahoma has a licensing and regulatory agency in charge of private security and private investigators? You should have to buy your own gear. Shooting a common pistol makes as much sense to me as brushing my teeth with a common toothbrush! You don't know whether or not it will even fire unless you can take it out on the range and put a few rounds through it. I want my OWN semiautomatic revolver, thank you very much! I don't want some idiot who has not a clue playing with it and maybe messing up the sights, etc. I also want my OWN gear. It is hell to constantly alter pants to fit all these different officers so hw as in line by letting you buy your own pants. I liked military BDU pants They were practical and cheap and they lasted me a long time. You NEVER rush in when two adults who are evenly matched or fighting! Then they will probably both turn and beat YOU up. I call the police and get as much info on the combatants as I can --vehicle descriptions, license plate numbers, names if I can get them, clothing descriptions. Just ONE of me and TWO or MORE of them. I ain't taking no lumps for a lousy pittance, subsistence wage, man. No way! They should have told you that your job is primarily to OBSERVE AND REPORT! I do not engage in gratious head-knocking for that sort of money. If it is a child or a little person or an elderly person whose life is in immediate danger, THEN I will do something. Otherwise, no way. Same thing if the person committing the crime is of a different race or ethnicity or color than you are. You WILL lose your job, at least here in Texas... Safe thing is to have someone from the predominant ethnic or racial group in the place where you are guarding to be the security guard. that way you can't get sued as readily for discrimination, harrassment, civil rights violations,etc. This is HOW THINGS WORK IN SECURITY --except that you should have had a commission card or some sort of card from the State of Oklahoma to let them know you were allowed to be a security officer. You need to call the licensing and regulatory board that handles private security agencies and tell them that this security company owner is NOT licensing his people. If he took the licensing fee out of your check, then he also committed fraud and you can call the IRS and report it to them... this is standard practice for most of the places where I worked security but I don't know how you all do things in Oklahoma. You call your regulatory agency and find out the rules. they were supposed to have taught you that in the Security training academy, anyway.