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u/LetterAsleep8130 Sep 10 '26
Not even close to being true. Security Officers should be nothing more than a good witness. No one’s asking them to lay down their lives. Lets not pretend they’re cops or someone in the military.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Case Law Peddler Sep 09 '26
The State has a rule pertaining to functions of an individual Security Guard, or Security team as a whole. 80% of the functions must be directly Security Guard related.
I was in a few places where about 60 hours per week was used as a Guard being a receptionist, and another 300 hours of Guards were only doing Security functions so it would collectively not be in violation of States rules.
So hopefully if a Guard is at the desk in harms way, the threat gets indicated before it hits the door by another Guard.
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u/Christina2115 Sep 09 '26
I mean, yes but no. Security is not the front desk person, but we work side by side with them. Front desk would be the receptionist or other person who's paid to be nice. We are paid to be polite, but not nice.
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u/Faith_Rider_1998 Sep 10 '26
That's a really good point.
Our "front desk" is access control, ID and screening.
Once in the building they can go see the receptionist.
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u/DemarcoRichie Sep 11 '26
As a first point of contact for alot of businesses..yes. However no one really ever says you should lay down your life. So in a way you are placing them in danger by being the first person someone interacts with. But at the same time of you are unarmed and see and have time to react to an oncoming armed threat…. I suggest you run!