Worthless Security

[Mr Lee]

Here is the answer to their training. I sure hope they do not give them m16's. Blue guards need better pay, training SECURITY guards need more specialized training to be effective and efficient in their assignments. Under the curricula designed by PNP Camp Crame, would-be security guards undergo 145 hours of training before they can become licensed blue guards. Their licenses are valid for three years. Six months before their licenses expire, security guards are supposed to undergo a 56-hour refresher training. But the knowledge and skills that security guards get from the basic course and refresher training are not enough to make them highly efficient in fulfilling specific functions, like bank, airport and seaport security, said Rey Maniwang, head of the St. Martin Detective and Protective Training Institute in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City. The PNP-designed basic course covers duties and responsibilities of security guards, traffic direction and control, crime scene preservation, rules of engagement, emergency preparedness, first aid, gender awareness and armed security training, among others. Specialized Given the limitations of the curricula, security agencies have to provide additional training to their personnel depending on where they are assigned, Maniwang said. “Bank security is different from that used in malls. Guarding airports and seaports also needs more specialized training. For seaports and sea vessels, for instance, security personnel have to conform to the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code,” he told Sun.Star Cebu. Maniwang also said there is a need to review Republic Act 5487 or the Private Security Agency Law to adapt to the present conditions. “Robbers have become more sophisticated and they now have more powerful weapons,” he added. The law provides that a security guard be issued a firearm “that is not higher than a 45 caliber,” or “when circumstances demand,” be entitled to use a riot gun or shotgun. Automatic Maniwang said bank security guards assigned to escort armored vans are better off with an automatic rifle, like an M16, instead of a single-shot shotgun. :cheersty:

[Jake]

Under the curricula designed by PNP Camp Crame, would-be security guards undergo 145 hours of training before they can become licensed blue guards. Their licenses are valid for three years. The PNP-designed basic course covers duties and responsibilities of security guards, traffic direction and control, crime scene preservation, rules of engagement, emergency preparedness, first aid, gender awareness and armed security training, among others.

OK, here are my first thoughts about this security training: are the PNP instructors fully qualified to teach even the basics?? A case in point: Manila's finest swat team failed tragically during a hostage crisis on that Chinese tourist bus couple years ago. Additionally, I feel it's another scheme to fatten the licensing agency of the PNP. It has been their SOP for a long time: ghostpurchases, fake bullet proof vests, ill equipped police and soldiers and guess what.......poor training.

[Taylor]

The police get paid very little in the Philipines. My sister-in-laws brother, a police man in a small town just north of Tarlac city, asked me about 7 years ago while we were sitting around a fire drinking beer... tito, I have been saving for over 9 years and have enough to buy a gun now.. should I buy one?I asked him, what would you do if that bank outside the barangay was being robbed by armed men and you were there and had your gun...? His reply... I would get far away, very fast... There's your answer... don't waste your money on a gun. Sort of like the security at our airports... Minimum wage and minimum results.

[Mugs]

until such time as criminals no longer have guns it is my opinion that police still need to have them.

[harry]

I agree with "you get what you pay for". But do not knock all the security, there are good and bad everywhere. And you never know here when you will need them. I personnelly have my own, 24 hours a day, who I take everywhere, that way you do not have to rely on the others.