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What are the three components of fire?
Space, air, wind and water.
Heat, fuel and oxygen.
Stupidity, carelessness and criminal intent.
Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen.
“Heat, fuel and oxygen.”
Upon assignment to a new site, the security guard notices that allof the site’s fire extinguishers claim to suppress Class C fires. What is the source of a Class C fire?
Class C fires are caused by rain.
A Class C fire is a fire started by electricity.
Class C fires are started by wildfires as they rage out of control.
Class C fires are those with wood as a fuel source.
“A Class C fire is a fire started by electricity.”
What actions should the security guard take upon arriving on post and replacing a security officer whose shift has ended?
Ask the outgoing officer for a briefing regarding the security status of
the property.
Go on break to get prepared for the shift.
Conduct an inventory of shift reports, incident reports and timesheets
to ensure the proper forms are available for the upcoming shift.
Conduct a patrol of the site to ensure the outgoing officer hasn’t been
goofing off during his shift and allowing bad things to happen.
“Ask the outgoing officer for a briefing regarding the
security status of the property.”
Which statement best defines the role of the unarmed security guard?
Provide protection to people, property and information by providing
security assistance and observing and reporting irregularities.
Protect the owner of the property to which the officer is assigned but
not his tenants.
Enforce state law, local ordinance, site policy and post orders.
Only enforce laws when the violation is a felony offense.
“Provide protection to people, property and information
by providing security assistance and observing and reporting irregularities.”
A security officer conducts a vehicle patrol. As he drives on site he observes a clearly angry individual rapidly approaching the security car. What response is most advantageous to the officer and the security of the site?
Pull up to the individual and interview him through a half open driver’s
side window.
Tell the individual to stop where he is, stop the car, quickly get out and
conduct the interview from a standing position.
Ask the individual to have a seat in the passenger seat of the security
car.
Hit the gas and speed away.
“Tell the individual to stop where he is, stop the car,
quickly get out and conduct the interview from a standing position.”
While on patrol an officer approaches a suspicious acting individual. Where should the officer’s hands be placed as he questions the individual?
Firmly around the suspicious person’s arms to prevent escape.
Inside of officer’s pockets.
In front of the officer at least waist high or higher in the interview position.
At the officer’s side.
“In front of the officer at least waist high or higher in the interview position.”
Which statement best describes tactical communication?
Issuing emergency directives such as, “All customers should move to
the center of the store at this time” when a tornado approaches.
The artform of defusing an emotional situation and achieving voluntary compliance through tactful and strategic conversation.
Communications between officers about strategy.
Conversation over a company issued radio system.
: “The artform of defusing an emotional situation and achieving voluntary compliance through tactful and strategic conversation.”
What statement best describes the security guard’s authority to protect his client’s property?
As the official representative of the property owner the officer can deny access and evict people from the property.
The officer has no authority to ask someone to leave the property.
The security officer can deny access to a property only when he is wearing a gold or silver metal badge that says “Security EnforcementOfficer”.
Prior to an eviction the security officer must notify local police.
“As the official representative of the property owner the
officer can deny access and evict people from the property.”
A stadium security officer guards an access point to a stadium. He asks a visitor to open up her purse so he can check for weapons. She refuses and insists she has a constitutional right to not allow the search.
The visitor is correct and the officer must allow her to enter.
The visitor is incorrect and the officer can conduct a search regardless
of the visitor’s refusal.
The visitor is correct but the search can be mandated as a condition of
access to the stadium.
If the visitor does not provide permission then she may be denied access.
The Constitution and court interpretations have provided the officer with the right to search the purse in the presence of a law enforcement officer.
“The visitor is correct but the search can be mandated as a condition of access to the stadium. If the visitor does not provide permission then she may be denied access.”
Which best describes a logical location for an access control point?
A commercial kitchen emergency fire exit, a dormitory roof hatch and
a classroom window.
A parking garage entry gate, the front lobby desk of an office complex and a driveway to a hunting lodge.
The interior closet door in a motel room, several large windows on the thirty-third floor of a commercial office building and a construction site’s locked gate opened only for the passage of a few large vehicles.
The commons area located in the center of a large apartment complex, the security office located in the basement of a shopping mall and a small desk located inside of the principal’s office in the interior of a middle school.
“A parking garage entry gate, the front lobby desk of an
office complex and a driveway to a hunting lodge.”
Detention and Arrest
Following arrest, the arrestee loudly complains that his
handcuffs are too tight. What should the officer do?
Take the handcuffs off of the arrestee and put them back on only not as tight.
Tighten the handcuffs and tell the arrestee to stop complaining.
Check the handcuffs by inserting two middle fingers between the handcuffs and the arrestee’s wrist and carefully loosening as
necessary.
Measure the distance between the arrestee and the handcuffs using a police standard divining rod and carefully loosening as necessary.
“Check the handcuffs by inserting two middle fingers
between the handcuffs and the arrestee’s wrist and carefully loosening as necessary.”
Under what conditions may an officer make an arrest in most jurisdictions?
The officer observes an individual commit a crime or is told by a third-party that the individual has committed a felony.
The individual insults the officer by muttering “rent-a-pig” as he walks away.
A third party tells the officer that the individual should be arrested
because he broke curfew the night before.
The officer works for an apartment complex and is requested by property management to arrest a tenant because the tenant is in violation of a court ordered payment plan.
“The officer observes an individual commit a crime or is told by a third-party that the individual has committed a felony.”
A hotel security officer arrests a tenant after noticing a
significant amount of drugs sitting on the nightstand in his room.
After arresting him and placing him in the security car what should the officer do with the drugs?
Immediately flush them down the toilet to keep them out of the reach of children.
Take the drugs to the car with the arrestee in order to guard them and the arrestee from a single location.
Leave the drugs in the room and ask the hotel clerk to re-initialize the lock so no one can gain entrance to the room.
Pocket the drugs to keep them from getting lost.
“Leave the drugs in the room and ask the hotel clerk to re-initialize the lock so no one can gain entrance to the room.”
It which of the following situations should an unarmed security officer attempt to directly and physically intervene?
A small fire has been set in the commons area of an apartment complex.
Two large individuals are breaking into a car.
A flash mob of teenagers is looting a convenience store.
An armed robbery has been committed and the suspected robber is running from the premise.
“A small fire has been set in the commons area of an
apartment complex.”
What components of an incident should a well-constructed report include?
The identity of witnesses who were not involved in the incident.
The number of people involved in the incident as they related to the location of the security officer
The who, what, when, why, where and how of the incident.
Both A and B
A The identity of witnesses who were not involved in the incident.
B The number of people involved in the incident as they related to the location of the security officer
The dispatcher radios instructions to an officer. The officer responds by saying, “10-9”. What should the dispatcher do?
Write, “Officer arrived on scene,” on the dispatch log.
Call the shift supervisor and let him know that one of his officers has abandoned post without prior notice.
Repeat the instructions.
Either give the officer permission to go on break or ask the officer to stand by until relief arrives.
“Repeat the instructions.”
In which of the following interactions should an unarmed security officer attempt to stop the actions of a perpetrator?
Someone fills up his car with gas, quickly jumps in his car and prepares to speed off site without paying for the gas.
Two drunken individuals have a loud argument and get into a fight in the parking lot of a bar.
An individual walks up to a parent with a small child and attempts to tear the child away from parent.
Two rival gang members trade gunfire while shouting insults at each other.
“An individual walks up to a parent with a small child and attempts to tear the child away from parent.”
Which list best represents items that should be carried by an unarmed security officer while on foot patrol?
Binoculars, gloves and a swiss army knife.
Notepad, flashlight, cell phone and digital voice recorder.
Concealed handgun, clipboard, extra badge and laminated pocket- sized list of client contact numbers.
Raincoat, map of patrol route and copy of the post orders.
“Notepad, flashlight, cell phone and digital voice
recorder.”
What steps should the security guard take before he goes to court for either a deposition or witness stand testimony?
Call the attorney for the defense and ask for an advance copy of all questions that he will ask.
Review the incident report and all subsequent documents that include testimony about the incident from the security officer.
Request multiple delays in the court hearings until the defense gets tired and gives up.
Carefully coordinate testimony with the prosecution to make sure everyone is on the same page.
The correct answer is:
“Review the incident report and all subsequent
documents that include testimony about the incident from the security officer.”
While on post, SO Johnson hears a heated argument coming from another property located down the street from his post.
What should he do?
Rush over to the incident and attempt to stop the argument.
Call law enforcement and ask them to check into it.
Stay on post but do nothing about the argument.
Stay on post while yelling at those who are in an argument and demanding that they break it up.
“Call law enforcement and ask them to check into it.”
The security guard’s role BEFORE a violation has been committed is to:
Prevention
What is the security guard’s role AFTER a violation has been committed?
Observe and report
Acting in such a way as to make someone think that you are a peace officer is:
Illegal and should never be done
You are patrolling a company parking lot and see two people trespassing near a car on the lot. You should first
Politely ask what they are doing
