Security Guard Training Class Notes Latest Updated 2024 What two thing must exist for a crime to take place? - Correct Answer Desire and opportunity What are the two most important considerations as a security guard? - Correct Answer Manage personal safety, and observe legal obligations of a security guard.What are the legal obligations of a security guard? - Correct Answer Observe, Deter, Report What is a security guard's greatest enemy? - Correct Answer Complacency What are the three functions of a security guard? - Correct Answer Informational, Personal, and Physical security Define Law. - Correct Answer Rules and regulations that govern society What two types of law concern a security guard? - Correct Answer Criminal and Civil law Who is the victim in a criminal law violation? - Correct Answer Society Who is the victim in a civil law violation? - Correct Answer Individual What are the three steps to the system of criminal justice? - Correct Answer Arrest, trial, corrections What are the 5 steps involved in the processing of a criminal offender? - Correct Answer Arrest, indictment, trial, sentencing, release What are two types of categories of crime? - Correct Answer misdemeanor, and felony 1 / 2
How can we quickly determine where a crime may be categorized? - Correct Answer Felony if the action being committed will result in a prison sentence of a year, or more.How do you know if crime against property is a felony? - Correct Answer damages greater than $300 When can a person perform the act of a "citizens arrest?" - Correct Answer When a felony is witnessed, but the person making the arrest MUST be the direct witness of the crime.What are the two types of detention a security guard is allowed to use? - Correct Answer voluntary and involuntary How long is a voluntary detention legally allowed to last? - Correct Answer 20 minutes When can a security guard detain somebody involuntarily? - Correct Answer When the security is the direct witness of a felony.What two types of force may a security guard use? - Correct Answer Reasonable and justifiable When is deadly force authorized? - Correct Answer Only when life is in imminent threat of being destroyed, or greatly harmed by an aggressor.Where is a security guard's jurisdiction? - Correct Answer Property line, or post What are the two types of searches? - Correct Answer pat down, frisk Does a security guard ever frisk? - Correct Answer No Do security guards need to give a Miranda warning? - Correct Answer No, security guard's are not police Elaborate on the use of reasonable and justifiable force. - Correct Answer We can use the same force used against us, or slightly more.
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