Chaplains On Call added to membership benefits www.privateofficer.com

Chaplains On Call Added To Member Benefits
Charlotte NC. July 20 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Ntl. Assoc. Private officers

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As the National Association Of Private Officers continues to mount an aggressive membership drive during 2008, they know that they have to be different than other associations to attract new members.
We already offer the best entry level and advanced security training of any security organization or security training school, Mike Matthews, Senior Vice President of NAPO said on Friday. We go beyond the mandatory state requirements and we train private officers in many other areas of the private security industry besides the standard observe and report scenarios. We want the private officer to know what their authority is, how to respond to the many situations that they are going to encounter on a daily basis and to what extent they should respond to those incidents.

Executive Director Rick McCann also noted that the changes and duties in the security industrial continues to expand and grow but security companies are not staying abreast of those changes nor do they adequately communicate those changes to their staff or provide the level of training and resources necessary for the front line officer to properly do their job.
Guards are not guards anymore McCann said. Look around and you’ll see that their duties are vast and varied and we have private officers conducting law enforcement type duties patrolling city blocks, issuing parking tickets, standing watch at the most valuable resources in the nation, securing airports, nuclear plants, providing mobile incident and alarm response and guarding industrial businesses just to name a few. It’s not the same job as 20 years ago and that’s what we want employers and contract agencies, law enforcement and the general public to realize. With these added responsibilities comes the need for better training, equipment, pay, benefits and services McCann continued.

In addition to the training, we also offer the largest networking and information source as well as daily news blasts and blogs about security incidents across the country so that the security officer can be better informed of what is happening in this business. We also have networked with insurance companies, security and police equipment suppliers and other companies to bring our membership much needed services and benefits and now we have added another great service Matthews said.
Starting Monday, July 21st we have contracted with Chaplains On Call, a Charlotte North Carolina Chaplain Agency, (chaplainsoncall@ymail.com) to provide emergency chaplaincy services to our members. This service will include counselors for stress, domestic violence, grief, incident situations or anything that the member needs assistance with. The chaplains will provide confidential services and be a great source of referral and resources for a wide range of needs. The initial service will be offered via telephone and internet contact but Chaplains On Call also have a network in many parts of the U.S. and they will be able to refer individuals to area chaplains or other resources on a case by case basis.

Having this service is extremely beneficial McCann noted because it gives the member someone to confide in, counsel with or turn to in times of an emergency, crises or just when they have problems in their life. Research has overwhelming showed that when an employee is faced with relationship, financial, grief, or other problems in their life that they are less productive because of being stressed, worried and saddened about their situation. This service is free, it’s confidential and it will be a blessing and a service to all of our members McCann added.

As we continue to grow our membership, we will add services and benefits that are not A typical Matthews said. We want to cover all the basis and provide our members with not only the basic wall certificate and membership card but with services, benefits and tangible things that are not offered by any other association but that are greatly needed and beneficial to everyone overall Matthews continued.

McCann said that they are excited and are working hard to make this the primo private security association hands down and little by little they are getting there. We’re proud of our accomplishments but we have so much that we want to do and a lot of great stuff that we want to offer our members and we will as we continue to build The National Association Of Private Officers.

Currently membership benefits include:

Certificate of Membership

Wallet ID Card

Free Access To Our Staff Ask Questions, Get Advise About A Particular Incident, Situation Or Problem!

Free Access To Our Legal Staff

Auto Rental Company Discounts

Equipment Discounts

Quarterly Security Newsletters

Seminars / Conference Discounts

Website Including Web Based Training

Security Radio Station WPSO

Discounted Private Officer Merchandise

Insurance

Advance Certification Programs

Officer Award Program

Security Officer Banquets

much more to come!

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NY Security officer assaulted detaining shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

Manhattan NY July 20 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

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An Upper West Side drugstore security officer was assaulted when he nabbed a shoplifter who swiped electric razors and assaulted him, authorities said yesterday.
Robert Brown, 45, bagged eight razors in the Rite Aid on Broadway near West 110th Street at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, sources said.
The security officer saw the theft and confronted Brown, who allegedly tried to leave without paying, then shoved the officer and dashed off.
The security officer gave chase and grabbed Brown, who repeatedly punched him as he continued to break free but the security officer held on.
NYPD officers spotted the two as they continued to tussle and cuffed Brown, who was charged with robbery and assault, a DA spokeswoman said.
Brown was transported to central booking and is being held pending court.

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Bail bonds company shut down by state www.privateofficer.com

Bail bonding company shut down by state www.privateofficer.com

Hernando, MS July 20 2008 A DeSoto County bail bondsman has been shut down by the state of Mississippi, because his clients weren’t showing up to court.

A Southaven woman says Garner Bail Bonds ripped her off for five thousand dollars and her son ended up back in jail because the bondsman didn’t do his job.
Pam Clarkson says her son, Trevor, was arrested last week for contempt of court for missing a court appointment July 1. She said

Garner Bail Bonds failed to tell him about the court date — a responsibility that lies with the bail bondsman.”My $5000 was supposed to keep my son out of jail, but it didn’t do that,” she saidWhen she went to get help from Garner she says all she got was the run-around.”He kept telling me that I could call Monday and speak to the office all this time knowing that they were closed and going out of business.”The state of Mississippi began investigating Garner Bail Bonds after its forfeiture total topped 220-thousand dollars.

The Department of Insurance says it was ordered to yank owner Lee Garner’s license July 15th.

Lee Garner refused to speak with area media on camera and hung up the phone when a reporter called him.

Clarkson says her son spent five days behind the razor wire fence of the DeSoto county jail — days he shouldn’t have spent. She got no help from the bail bondsman.

Now the place is closed and she’s out the money.”I’m definitely going to pursue this. $5000 is a lot of money,” said Clarkson. “It took me six months to pay it out and now since all this happened, I had to get another bail bond company and we’re paying on it now.”

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Club security officer shot during disturbance www.privateofficer.com

St. Louis MO. July 20 2008

Police responded to a shooting at 5:30 a.m. outside Club Phoenix at 512 Missouri Ave.
“Allegedly, the gunman, who appeared to be intoxicated, was trying to enter the club without paying the $5 cover charge,” said Detective Michael Floore. “He and the security guard on duty had some words over the money, and the suspect was put out of the club.”
Within 20 minutes, the suspect went back to the club when the security guard was walking a woman across the street.
“The suspect pulled out a gun and fired about seven rounds, striking the guard two times and the female with him once in the leg,” Floore said.
Floore said police are looking for Dorian Brown, 33, from the East St. Louis area, to question him in connection with the case.
Floore said Brown, who is a light skinned black man with a full beard and heavyset body frame, and an Afro-type hairstlye, is only a person of interest.
“We need to talk to him. We need the public to help us locate him,” Floore said.
The names of the victims were not released.
Anyone with any information regarding either shooting is urged to call the East St. Louis Police Department at 482-6700 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477 . This is an anonymous tip line that pays up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

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Police K-9 tracks shoplifters after assault on security www.privateofficer.com

Police use K-9 to track shoplifters who assaulted security officer www.privateofficer.com

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY FLA July 20 2008

Kyle T. Greene

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer,com Four Broward County residents were charged with retail theft after a K-9 led deputies to one who had fled on foot.
A security officer told the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office he had spotted Ian Charles Harris, 27, of Sunrise, leaving the Beall’s Outlet store in the 5900 block of 20th Street with two bags of clothes he didn’t purchase at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

The clothing was valued at more than $530.
The officer confronted Harris, who threw the bags back toward the store, according to an arrest affidavit. The officer tried to handcuff the man, but Harris punched him several times in the face and fled on foot. The officer was not seriously hurt.
A Sheriff’s deputy arrived with a K-9 and found Harris not far from the store, the report said. Harris told officers he was stealing the clothes to sell in the Fort Lauderdale area.
Two other deputies tracked down three women who had been seen with Harris inside the store, the report said. Mia Reynolds, 27, Sarah Marie May, 25, and Audrey Lane Walker, 25, all from Fort Lauderdale, were charged with retail theft.
Deputies found $400 in stolen clothing in the trunk of a car the women had been using, the report said.

All four were being held Friday at the Indian River County Jail.
Harris was charged with retail theft, misdemeanor battery and resisting a merchant and was being held in lieu of $6,000 bail. The women were being held in lieu of $2,500 bail.

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Casino security officers aid in drug arrest www.privateofficer.com

CHEROKEE COUNTY KS July 20 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

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Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the Downstream Casino early Friday morning to assist casino security officers in reference to a possible prostitution and drug call.

Deputies were notified by casino officers of a suspicious female who possibly was in there acting as a prostitute and deputies made contact with Deborah Vorse, 26, after security pointed her out.
During the course of their investigation, deputies conducted a consensual search of Vorse’s vehicle, finding what officers believed to be crystal methamphetamine and marijuana.

Vorse was taken into custody at that time and arrested and was transported to the Cherokee County Jail and charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

She is being held on a $9,000 bond.

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Target security agents arrest employee for theft www.privateofficer.com

WHITE PLAINS NY July 20 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ Target loss prevention agents were watching when employee April Bagley decided to do some shopping without paying for the merchandise.
According to investigators, Bagley was arrested by store security officers Thursday after they accused her of bagging 12 video games, two pillow shams and a comforter, then leaving the store without paying for them, police said.
Police were called to the store at 9 City Place about 4:15 p.m. and Bagley, of 33 Lincoln Ave., New Rochelle, was taken into custody and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor.
The value of the items taken was not disclosed but Bagley was released without bail and is due in City Court on July 31.

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Small town post master gunned down, suspect captured www.privateofficer.com

Small town post master gunned down, police capture suspect www.privateofficer.com

DALLAS, W.Va.July 20 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Police arrested a man Friday after they said he shot and killed a post master at the Dallas Post Office.
Marshall County Sheriff John Gruzinskas said Post Master Lua Wolverton, 35, was wounded twice with shotgun blasts shortly before 3 p.m., but was able to call 911 to identify and describe her attacker.
State Police Sgt. J.A. Laing said Wolverton later died at Ruby Memorial Hospital.
Todd Dolin Jr., 39, was arrested by police in Zanesville, Ohio, and transferred to a hospital in that state for observation, Laing said.
Laing said police plan to charge Dolin in Ohio as a fugitive from justice and secure his extradition to West Virginia to face murder charges.
The shotgun was left at the scene, Gruzinskas said. Dolin lives in the Moundsville area.
Gruzinskas said Dolin and the victim had “a familiar relationship,” but he declined to elaborate. Because the shooting occurred on federal property, postal inspectors will lead the investigation.
Dallas is an unincorporated community located southeast of wheeling and less than a half-mile from the Pennsylvania state line, 32 miles northeast of Moundsville.
Neither county nor federal authorities will release any further information on the homicide investigation but some suspect that this was possibly a domestic type situation.
Investigators are continuing their work as they begin to get the suspect back to West Virginia and said that they’ll release further information later in the week.

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Security officer arrested during hit and run investigation www.privateofficer.com

EASTON MA. July 20 2008

Kyle T. Greene

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Days after a Stoughton man was charged in the hit-and-run death of a 58-year-old Brockton man out for a walk, the suspect’s brother was arrested on charges he lied to police and tried to cover up the crime.
Daniel Faria of Cliff Street, Quincy, was arrested Friday in Boston at the U.S. Constitution where he was working security. He was charged with lying to police. He was brought to the Easton police station, said state police Detective Lt. Stephen O’Reilly.
Faria, a police officer with the Massachusetts mental health department, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, he said.
O’Reilly, commander of the state police unit assigned to the Bristol County district attorney’s office, said the charge was filed after investigators uncovered evidence involving an alleged cover-up and destruction of possible evidence after the hit and run.
Faria’s brother, Michael Faria of Stoughton, was arrested earlier in the week in connection with the hit-and-run death of John McCarthy of Brockton who was struck as he walked on Route 138 in Easton last Saturday morning.
The latest arrest follows an investigation by Easton police and Trooper Daniel Thom, a state police investigator assigned to District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter’s office.
Prosecutors alleged that Michael Faria later fled to Maine, where he tried to repair his SUV.
The suspect alleged he was text messaging at the time the victim was struck. Prosecutors alleged if Faria had stopped and called for help, McCarthy might have survived.
McCarthy, who was struck head-on on Washington Street near Meredith Drive and lay by the side of the road for about 30 minutes before help was summoned at 4:41 a.m. last Saturday. McCarthy died shortly after his arrival at Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.
Michael Faria, who marked his 33rd birthday on Monday, was arraigned Wednesday in Taunton District Court on charges of motor vehicle homicide, leaving the scene of an accident after causing personal injury or death, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle so as to endanger.

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Correction officers stand trial for inmate assaults www.privateofficer.com

PROVIDENCE RI July 20 2008 — Two days before Christmas, in 2005, a despondent Robert Houghton returned to his living quarters in the minimum-security unit of the Adult Correctional Institutions. Several of his fellow inmates, including Christopher Grossett, knew something was wrong.
“The guy was down,” he said. “He wasn’t himself.”
Grossett testified yesterday that Houghton told him that Capt. Gualter Botas, a veteran corrections officer, had struck him in the head with a telephone book. The allegation launched an investigation that resulted in criminal charges against Botas and Lt. Kenneth J. Vivieros on multiple counts of physically assaulting Houghton and several other inmates.
In February 2007, prison officials fired Botas, 39, of Pawtucket, and Viveiros, 56, of North Providence.
Botas faces seven counts of simple assault involving four inmates; Viveiros faces four counts of simple assault involving three of the same inmates. Testimony in the Superior Court trial began last week.
Grossett, who has multiple convictions for assault and for violating the terms of his probation, shared living space in minimum security with Houghton and 10 other inmates in late 2005 and early 2006. Now a free man, Grossett, 25, was subpoenaed to testify as a witness for the prosecution. He appeared to be a reluctant witness yesterday, dressed in baggy jeans and an oversized white T-shirt.
Judge Daniel A. Procaccini told the jury that they should consider the criminal records of Grossett and other felons who testify in the trial, but he warned them against dismissing everything they say. He said their criminal pasts do not mean that they are bad people and incapable of telling the truth.
Grossett corroborated some, but not all, of Houghton’s testimony over the past two days. Earlier, Houghton had testified that Botas assaulted him three times with the phone book; while Viveiros leveled three blows with a backhand. Houghton provided details of the alleged assaults that he said took place in Botas’ office.
Grossett testified that Houghton talked only about one assault: Botas hitting him in the head with the phone book. He also said that Houghton told him the assault took place in “the bubble,” a holding cell in minimum security.
Grossett said that Houghton mentioned names of other guards, “but my mind didn’t grasp it at that time.”
In February 2006, three months after the alleged assault, word spread through minimum security about an investigation into corrections officers abusing inmates. Houghton testified that he was playing cards with another inmate and discussing his assault in December.
Houghton said that David McGuirl, a corrections officer, overhead the conversation and he told him that he had an obligation to report the incident. McGuirl contacted Lt. Albert Normandin and told him about Houghton’s allegation.
Yesterday, Normandin confirmed the information and that on Feb. 17, 2006, he summoned Houghton to his office. He said that Houghton told him that Botas and Viveiros had assaulted him during an interrogation about contraband cigarettes.
Normandin said he asked no questions and turned the information over to James Vierra, warden of minimum security.
Three days later, Houghton provided state police detectives with details about the alleged assault, and the next day Grossett met with the detectives. He said that he did not know that Houghton met with investigators and that they never shared details of his meeting.
In fact, Grossett said he was worried when he met with the detectives because he thought they might be bringing a new criminal charge against him. He said he had no idea why they wanted to talk to him until they named Houghton.
Grossett said that he was reluctant to cooperate because he did not want to be labeled “a snitch” or “rat.”
“I told them exactly what Robert Houghton told me,” he said. “Nothing more. Nothing less.”
During cross-examination, John Lynch Jr., Botas’ lawyer, asked Grossett if he noticed any marks from the alleged assault on Houghton’s face. (Earlier, Houghton had testified that his cellmates questioned him about a red mark on his face from being struck.) Grossett said that there were no noticeable marks.
Later, prosecutor Molly K. Cote also asked Grossett whether he noticed any injuries on Houghton’s face.
“I didn’t really expect to see any injuries on him,” he said.
“Why not,” Cote asked.
“Because he said he got hit in the head with a phonebook.”
Grossett conceded that he and several other inmates urged Houghton to file a complaint against corrections officers. “We pressured him to say something because we felt what happened to him was wrong,” he said.

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