Terrorism and the Contract Security Market

The effectiveness of private security industry and personnel in serving the public efficiently is an issue that requires proper training of these officers. The lack of adequate training for the private security officers will continue to result in various injuries to the private security personnel. Negligent training has been cited as the major issue that acts as the basis of support for a course of action for injury by these personnel (Moore, 1998, p. 106). With the increase in

Good evening Tinel, good job responding to this week topic. I agree with what you posted regarding Nemeth illustration of the need for training to effectively do a job within a security/law enforcement field and mitigate liabilities by stating “Lack of proper standards, training, and educational preparedness results in a predictable shortage of skilled and dutiful security practitioners. Many security agencies only requires those they hire to have an eight and sixteen hours security training. After hiring those individuals, the security agencies only provide them with eight hours in-service training. I dont think security guards who go through this process will have sufficient training to properly do their job. due to the minimum amount of

Training is one of the most frequently used approaches to changing people’s mindsets. A company might offer training programs to large blocks of employees on subjects such as teamwork, diversity, emotional intelligence, quality circles, communication skills, or participative management. Training employees is also important because it helps them understand the purpose and importance of a new strategy, overcome resistance, and develop the necessary skills and behaviors to implement the strategy.

It is important that training is provided in areas of management, business products, and business processes among others. The training is essential in ensuring that I have knowledge about the skills and competencies that my employees should possess. This will guide me during the recruitment process to hire employees that have the required skills to enhance the quality of services provided. I will also be able to acquire knowledge on how to motivate and retain the employees and the leadership skills to use. In addition, the training is necessary since it provides knowledge in business methods that and requirements. Furthermore, training is necessary so as to get information on the possible problems that are likely to affect my business. This will help in putting in strategies to mitigate the risks. It is also essential to have training programs so that I can acquire financial management knowledge on working capital management so as to increase profits. Lastly, training will provide marketing skills on how to attract new customers and retain existing customers.

In the decade since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, over 30 major plots in the United States led to terrorism court convictions. Although terrorism risk is still relatively new to the insurance industry, demand for terrorism insurance is high with a take-up rate of over 60 percent nationwide (RMS). However, insuring terrorism exposures remains extremely challenging due to a lack of historical loss data, the spatially concentrated nature of terrorism, the inability to predict human behavior and a lack of access to classified government information.

When a contracted security service which you are using is not performing well, it can be crucial to rectify the performance problems. Failure to do so can result in possible compliance fines, security breaches, or worse. There are several ways in which organizations can ensure that there security service is aware of and meets all of their expectations.

Another final point is the fact that security professionals need to receive proper training. This is a huge need for any security professional not only today, but for the future to come. Leaders need to understand what it takes to have proper training and be able to ensure followers are getting beneficial training for the industry. In the security industry, many security measures and technologies seem to be constantly on the move. This constant movement should require a training or certification process needing leader’s attention.

Following the tragic attacks of 9/11, the United States invested heavily in institutional entities designed to combat terrorism (Lum, Kennedy & Sherley, 2006:4). Across the pond in Europe, the attack led to an increased sense of vulnerability and the region is still perceived as a key target for both foreign and domestic terrorists (Shaffer, 2016:383). Recent attacks such as those in Stockholm, Nice and Westminster unquestionably bring about a perceived increase in the gravity of the terror threat. Whilst the increase of such attacks is undeniable, the statistical likelihood of becoming a casualty of a terrorist attack is much smaller than that of drowning in your own bathtub (Mueller, 2005:28).

Terrorism is a big issue that the United States faces today. If we back up into time 15 years ago when we were attack by Al Qaeda in New York City we were not prepare for any type of terrorist attack. Now 15 years later our security of preventing attacks have approved in airports majorly. Now we can’t just buy plane tickets and get on a plane and go, now we have stages of security to go through even before we get on the plane. We are now spending billions of tax paying dollars on keeping up with security in airports and in our military. America is the land that everyone has a chance to make a living but what happens when terror is spread across the country. ISIS is the main terrorist group that is making that happen and making terror spread

The survey went out to 5412 security practitioners and 351 experts returned the surveys (Richardson, 2011). The survey participants are people that have either attended a CSI event or have an interest in security and are concerned with making improvements to security. The survey is an anonymous questionnaire that provides information about what security specialists are facing in the industry. The responses come from specialists within from various different types of groups within the private and public

Counterterrorism and its personnel cannot afford to plateau in their effectiveness. There cannot be a day when practices are “good enough” because there are people who will take advantage of leniency and exploit weakness. Not including cyber-attacks, there have been 251 terrorist attacks in North America from 2016 to 2016 (Cordesman 2017), and the United States can attest to the fact that some of those have been successful on its soil. Terrorists’ more successful and visual attacks in recent years have employed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and mass casualties with the use of firearms. Innocent people are targeted and killed, mass fear is instilled and terrorist’s organizations get both credit for heinous acts as well as an expanded recruitment pool. The decent people in the US and other countries terrorists aim to impact slowly change from the fear caused by the completed attacks, then the counterterrorism community learns from this. The US is very proficient already and disrupts attacks the public will never know about but that does not mean it can’t be better. When it comes to terrorist attacks, one successful is one too many. In order for counterterrorists to evolve and adapt better than the terrorists, all ideas need to be analyzed. The US is

The second type of measure is economic loss, measured as the loss of economic prosperity by people, firms, or governments and derived from impact studies of the resulting damages (Frey et al., 2007). The economic loss measurements capture the direct market value impact of terrorism, but do not fully account for intangible losses. Finally, the third category of measurement of impact is utility loss, often used in human resource journal articles concerning terrorism. The utility loss category captures the qualitative indirect and intangible losses of terrorism, such as well-being and emotional impact. For this study, we use the cumulative number of terrorist incidents to measure a firm’s prior exposure to terrorism.

Job training is not only beneficial for increasing productivity, but it can also be a tool that help change people’s behavior and inspire them to know how to perform their job more proficiently and effectively. The key when it comes to training is to identify the issues that can be helped from training, then carry out the correct training to gain better results. Most of the time employees come to a company with academic abilities and not have the skills or knowledge to carry out their duties. When leaders train correctly, it can be a company’s biggest asset. In order for managers make training count, they must organize it directly to the needs of the people and to the organization. Training is not a simple tasks, it requires a substantial amount of money in human capital. But the ending results can be advantages to a company.

General training: Make sure employees know how to act/respond in all kinds of emergencies. Make sure employees have had practice applying the training they learned.

Training is appropriate when your organization can be expected to gain more benefit from the training than it invested in its cost. The value of any training investment to the organization must rely on the vision and judgment of line supervisors and managers. You may authorize training to build skills and knowledge levels that help employees better contribute to your organizational mission(s). In some cases, the need is immediate and the training remedial; in other cases, the aim is to update and maintain professional knowledge; and in still others the goal is to prepare for requirements anticipated by higher level officials. The following factors might indicate training or development needs of your employees: