Private Security Advisory Board Update June 11, 2002

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Private Security Advisory Board UpdateJune 11,
2002

• Lisa J. R. Hahn, Deputy Chief
• Private Security Services Section

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Job Task AnalysisSummary Process

• Requested Industry Participation and volunteers
  for Advisory Committee(AC)
• Industry DCJS provided information about the
  profession and current requirements
• Developed an AC to assist SMT with development of
  content task list.

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JTA Summary Process Continued

• The AC reviewed and modified the task list
• AC developed a rating scale
• AC developed demographic questions
• AC developed a sampling plan
• SMT developed survey
• AC reviewed the survey instrument

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JTA Summary Process Continued

• Results of the survey were presented to the AC
  for consideration.
• AC developed task exclusion criteria based on
  survey responses.
• AC developed content outline
• Based upon the content outline recommendations
  were made for the numbers of training hours
  required for each major content area.

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Final Report for Security Officer

• The Security Officer Survey Final
• Report has been completed by SMT
• 1400 surveys mailed to Security Officers
• 149 returned with incorrect address
• Of the 1,251- 295 returned surveys
• Overall return rate of 24
• Over 98 indicated that the survey
• completely covered the necessary KSAs
• Reliability Estimates were high

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Security Officer Demographics

• 47.5 Unarmed
• 52.5 Armed

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Years of Experience

• Less than 3 years - 20.7
• 3 to 6 years - 31.6
• 7 to 10 years - 16.7
• More than 10 years - 31.0

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Educational Levels

• Non-high School - 8.4
• High School - 36.1
• Some College - 31.6
• College graduate - 23.9
• (Over 55 of the respondents indicated that
  they had at least some college)

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Region

• Central 23.5
• North 31.5
• East 37.4
• West 7.6

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Current Work Setting

• Industrial - 24.2
• Office Building - 17.4
• Residential - 4.6
• Health care - 5.0
• Retail - 3.2
• entertainment - 3.2
• Transportation - 1.8
• Government - 25.3
• Other - 15.3

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Prior Experience in Law

• None - 56.0
• Yes (local or state police)- 9.2
• Yes (state or fed. agencies)- 4.3
• Military- 24.5
• Other- 6.0

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Gender

• Male - 85.2
• Female 14.8

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Ethnicity

• Multi-racial 1.4
• Hispanic 2.4
• Other 3.2
• Asian 3.5
• Native American 5.6
• African American 28.2
• Caucasian 55.7

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Basic Core Training Hours 24 Total Hours

• Access Control 1 hour
• Security Patrol 1 hour
• Defensive Control Proc. 1 hour
• Emergency Procedures 8 hours
• Communication 1 hour
• Legal Aspects 8 hours
• Report Writing 4 hours

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Firearms Training Hours16 Total Hours

• Law 6 hours
• Safety 1 hour
• Fundamentals 3 hours
• Marksmanship 3 hours
• Range 4 hours
• (low lighting and dry fire)

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Security OfficerUnarmed

• Currently at 16 hours

• Recommended to increase to 24

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Security Officer Armed

• Currently at 24 hours

• Recommended to increase to 40

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Final Report for Private Investigators

• The Private Investigator Survey Final Report has
  been completed by SMT
• 700 surveys mailed to Private Investigators
• 4 returned with incorrect addresses
• Of the 696 surveys - 221 were returned
• Overall return rate of 32
• Over 95 indicated that the survey completely
  covered the necessary KSAs
• Reliability Estimates were high

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Years Experience - PIs

• Less than 3 - 10.6
• 3 to 6 years - 18.3
• 7 to 10 years - 24.3
• More than 10 - 46.8

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Level of Education - PIs

• High School 25
• Associates 22.3
• Bachelor 30.2
• Masters 19.5
• Doctoral 2.3

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Primary Area of Practice - PIs

• Information Gathering 20.1
• Surveillance 13.4
• Insurance 11.2
• Family Law 8.4
• Fraud and Financial 6.1
• Corporate Investigations 4.5

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Primary Area of Practice for PIs (cont)

• Loss prevention 3.9
• Criminal Defense 3.4
• Locator 3.4
• Undercover 1.1
• Other 24.6

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Compliance Agent

• No - 57.5
• Yes - 42.5

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Prior Experience in Law Enforcement

• No - 42.3
• Yes - local or state police22.6
• Yes - state or federal agency 26
• Yes - military 9.1

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Number of Employees

• Self-employed - 46.3
• 2-5 employees - 27.8
• 6-10 employees - 4.7
• 11-15 employees - 3.8
• 16-20 employees - 1.4
• gt20 employees - 17.0

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Supervise Others- PI

• 69.4 Do not supervise
• 30.6 Do supervise

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Business Principals or OwnersPI

• 39 were business principals or owners

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Number of Investigative Cases - PIs

• 0-10 cases - 12.4
• 10-50 cases - 19.3
• 50-100 cases - 8.3
• gt100 cases - 60.1

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Gender - PI

• 82.9 percent are male
• 17.1 percent are female

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Ethnicity-PI

• Caucasian-89.9
• African American-4.3
• Native American-2.9
• Hispanic - 1.4
• Multi-racial 1.0
• Other .5

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Private Investigators Training

• No changes in the number of hours (60) but
  recommendations for changes within the six
  section of training
• Recommendation for limits regarding the use of
  video tapes

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Private Investigators Training Continued

• Orientation - 2 hours
• Standards/Professional Ethics-2hrs
• Law - 20 hours (1 practical)
• Investigative Techniques-30 hours (2 practicals)
• Report Writing - 4 hours (I practical)
• Communication - 2 hours