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THE ART AND SCIENCE
OF SECURITY
OVERVIEW
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Businesses, institutions, families, and individuals rely on security measures to keep themselves and their assets safe. In The Art and Science of Security, author Joel Jesus M. Supan provides a practical and effective resource to show how the public can protect themselves against dangers and hazards. He helps leaders understand the real meaning of security—one of their primary responsibilities. The Art and Science of Security teaches and guides team leaders on how to preserve and protect the team’s resources in order to achieve their objectives. Supan, with more than twenty-five years of experience in the security industry, provides a thorough understanding of the principles and aspects of a wide range of security concerns, including personnel, informational, operational, environmental, physical, and
reputational. It discusses the guard system, details how to develop a corporate security program, shows how to conduct a security assessment, and tells how to manage a crisis. Supan demonstrates that the need for security goes beyond what is generally held to be the domain of guards, law enforcement agencies, and the military. Security is an important facet of every person’s well-being.
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ForeWord Reviews
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Art and Science of Security: Practical Security Applications for Team Leaders and Managers
Joel Jesus M. Supan
Trafford Publishing
978-1-4269-8204-0
Five Stars (out of five)
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There is no question that security has become a primary need for businesses in light of continuing concern about terrorism and acts of violence, as well as accidental and natural disasters. Given this reality, Joel Jesus M. Supan’s The Art and Science of Security: Practical Security Applications for Team Leaders and Managers, which looks at security in the broadest sense of the word, should be of compelling interest to business leaders.
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Supan provides a comprehensive first section called “Fundamentals of Security.” It covers basic resources, hazards and threats, security risks, security needs of an organization, and principles of security. It is a useful primer for those who may be less familiar with basic security concepts. In discussing security principles, Supan makes two key statements: “There is no absolute security,” and “Security is only as good as its weakest link.” These statements help put the remainder of the book into context.
In the next section, the author offers an instructional overview of the various security areas of concern to any business: personnel security, information security, operations security, physical security, environmental security, and reputation security. For each security area, Supan offers a compact, well-written chapter that defines the topic, the security objective, and the elements that should be included in a security plan. In the chapter regarding operations security, for example, Supan discusses maintaining the security of policies, procedures, systems, and rules and regulations. He notes that there are three “requisites” needed for operations security: education, engineering, and enforcement. He then details various “best practices” for operations security.
The third section of the book presents an extended discussion of a “guard system,” including basic functions, methods for performing the functions, and security guard force management.
THE ART AND SCIENCE
OF GUARDING
OVERVIEW
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A Guards is an example of a Human Barrier which is one of the six (6) Aspects of Security to complete and Integrated Security System.
To deliver the physical security needs of the facility, the guards has to know and perform at heart the twenty three (23) Basic Functions of the Guard. Not only must he know what they are but he must also know why they are necessary, how to perform them and how to documents his performance of them.
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The Art and Science of Guarding provides for a comprehensive learning and understanding of these Basic Guard Functions. This [book provides the details on how they functions are performed. The book also provides illustrations of the various security operations forms needed to document the performance of these functions.
The book is also essential for Security Supervisors, Managers and their Clients for their understanding of the Guard functions and thus level their expectations of each other.
GUARD STANDARD OPERATING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL
This Manual provides for the Operating Policies and Procedures that a Security Service provider can adopt and implement. It can be attached to the contract in compliance to the Service Level Agreement. It is in Digital format with a Power Point Presentation of Training Materials.
SECURITY GUARD TRAINING VISUAL AIDS
This Manual provides for the Operating Policies and Procedures that a Security Service provider can adopt and implement. It can be attached to the contract in compliance to the Service Level Agreement. It is in Digital format with a Power Point Presentation of Training Materials.
SECURITY OPERATIONS JOURNAL FORM OPN-01
This is an official form where the Security Guard or Officer writes to record and document all his activities, observations, and given instructions while on Duty. It is provided with the descriptions of its uses and the instructions on how to accomplish it to make it an instrument of security control and as an acceptable documentary testament.
SECURITY OPERATIONS REPORT FORM OPN-02
This is one page, user and reader-friendly recap of all security activities and facility conditions and a report on the compliance to contract which the Security Supervisor submits to the client daily. It is provided with the list of its uses and instructions to accomplish it to make it an acceptable written testament.
GUARD SECURITY TICKLER
This is a pocket-sized notepad for the recording of the guard’s personal observation while on duty. It is a prescribed part of the Guard’s uniform. It is provided with a list of reminders on what the guard does while on patrol, what to report in an incident, Emergency Principles and Numbers, Customer Service, Rules of Engagement, and Elements of Self-defense.
STANDARDIZED SECURITY OPERATIONS LOGS
These are Standardized Logbooks. They are used to document the compliance of guards in specific Security Procedures. They are provided with their purpose and instructions for their accomplishment They comply with the principle of accounting recording.