The Role of the Security Officer: Security Training for the Security Professional

This updated version of the popular 2006 book is a comprehensive security-training manual that provides all the tools a professional private security guard needs to survive and act within the law. Each chapter ends with a quiz and there is a final exam. The book is an excellent choice for students of the security profession, security company managers, private security consultants or college instructors searching for an appropriate student textbook that covers the fundamentals of basic security guard training. It is written in a lively and creative style that quickly grabs and holds the attention of the reader while covering the full range of fundamentals of the unarmed and armed security guard profession with chapters on firearms marksmanship, street survival, and handcuffing. There are also chapters on diplomatic security and armored truck security. The author has over thirty years of experience as a line officer and trainer in a security career that has included law enforcement administration, diplomatic security, private investigation and armored truck security. A Country Cop Books publication.


About the Author
Michael Jaquish is a former police chief and director of security for US Embassy operations in West Africa with degrees in Criminal Justice and Business Administration. He is also a journalist and the author of over fifteen other books including: The Washington State Bail Bond Recovery Agent Exam Study Manual, The Washington State Certified Guard Trainer Study Manual and Beyond Courage (Tales of a Country Cop in Africa). After retiring from law enforcement administration in 1989 Michael traveled to West Africa where he spent the next eight years conducting security and Intel operations during three civil wars in Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone for the US Embassy, NASA, USAID, Voice of America, United Nations, European Union and a variety of other government and private companies. He returned to the United States in 1997 and began working as a private consultant conducting firearms and street survival training for the security industry. He has worked as a security manager and trainer for Wackenhut International and provided firearms and street survival training for BRINK'S, Incorporated, Blackwater USA and various fugitive recovery operations. Since the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, Michael has been deeply committed to raising the bar for professionalism within the private security industry.