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Online Security Officer Training

Atlanta GA. Dec 26 2009

PRIVATE OFFICER International, the leading private security officer association now offers an array of online security training that you may take at home, at work or on the go!

eTraining Courses Include:

Certified Asset Protection Professional (CAPP) This professional security designation will not only help you in your career endeavors but also in your every day security officer duties.

Certified Church Security Specialist (CCSS)This professional designation will give you the training to lead a church security team and protect your church staff, visitors, property and assets

8 Certification Courses including:
Certified Security Manager
Certified Loss Prevention Specialist
Certified Housing Authority Officer
Certified School Security Officer
and others….

40 Individual Course Titles- Take them separately or all together
Courses including Use of Force, Responding to Bomb Threats, Crime Scene Security and much more!

More security courses are also currently being developed!

We can also design a specific course for your personal need or for training a security staff. Just let us know what area of study that you are interested in!

We Also Offer On-Site Security Training, Seminars and Consultations including Church Security Teams!

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St. Louis security officer shot, serious condition www.privateofficer.com

ST. LOUIS MO Dec 26 2009 – St. Louis police are searching for the gunman who shot and seriously wounded a St. Louis Sheriff’s deputy and a second man outside the Karma nightclub in mid-town early this morning.

Police gave this account:

The off-duty sheriff’s deputy was working as a security officer outside the club at 3037 Olive Street, when a disturbance began inside.

A man came out of the club and fired numerous shots. The deputy, 41, was wounded twice, in a hand and the legs.

A 25-year-old man was shot in the chest, abdomen and legs.

Police described both victims as in serious but stable condition, and did not identify either man.

Authorities did not say what caused the shooting. Police said they are searching for the suspect, who ran east into an alley behind the club.

St. Louis Sheriff James W. Murphy could not be reached for comment. There was no answer at the sheriff’s office today.

There also was no answer at the Karma. The nightclub reopened in September. It had operated as the Lush until it closed earlier this year.

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Christmas day house fire leaves two children dead www.privateofficer.com

Louisville KY Dec 26 2009 journel-courier.com A Christmas Day fire claimed the lives of two grandsons of a prominent Louisville couple as the family and firefighters joined to try to save the victims.
Flames already were shooting through the roof in the rear of the Glenview home of Cathy and Irving W. Bailey II and through the front entryway when firefighters arrived shortly after 4:30 a.m. Friday, alerted by an alarm system.
Chief Chris Aponte of the Harrods Creek Fire Department said the adults at the house were outside when firefighters arrived and were attempting a rescue, and fire crews joined in.
“Whenever there are lives involved, it changes the dynamic” at a fire scene, Aponte said. “The guys worked hard to do what they could. We had some experienced firefighters on the scene and they couldn’t make headway in it.”
The cause of the fire is under investigation, said Maj. Henry Ott of the Louisville Metro Arson Squad. The victims, whose names were not released, were ages 10 and 12, he said.
The Baileys were injured, as were three firefighters, and the couple’s home was mostly destroyed.
Aponte said two of the injured firefighters had minor burns and a third had an ankle injury.
In a statement released on behalf of the family, the Baileys said their injuries were serious but not life-threatening and that they were in a hospital. It did not identify the hospital.
“Two children were killed in this tragedy,” said the statement, provided by Scott Jennings, a family spokesman. The family requested privacy “at this time of great loss.”
Cathy Bailey, a former ambassador to Latvia under President George W. Bush, is a major Republican fundraiser and is considering a run for the U.S. Senate next year. Irv Bailey is former chairman and chief executive of Providian Corp., guiding the company through a decade of growth to its merger with the Dutch firm Aegon in 1997.
The Bailey property sits on a winding, narrow street, Longview Lane, that runs off River Road in eastern Jefferson County. The street splits into a dead-end just past the property and a cul-de-sac that contains six large houses with spacious yards.
By late afternoon Friday, what remained of the Bailey house had collapsed into the basement, Ott said.
He said five adults were in the house when the fire started — four on the first floor and one in the basement. The boys were on the second floor, he said.
Aponte said 45 firefighters from four departments fought the blaze — Lyndon, Worthington and St. Matthews, in addition to Harrods Creek.
He said the two victims were around the ages of two of his children, and many of the firefighters on the scene had children of their own at home.
“My family and I all had a big hug together” when he finally arrived home, he said. “But the images that we added to the photo album in our minds today will be something we won’t ever forget.”

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FBI arrest man in church $3 Million embezzlement www.privateofficer.com

ORANGE CT Dec 26 2009 – The FBI today arrested Gregory P. Loles, 50, of Easton, who is alleged to have embezzled more than $3 million from members of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, and possibly millions of dollars from the church.

U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Thomas Carson said Tuesday afternoon that Loles was arrested this morning by the FBI on a federal criminal complaint charging him with mail fraud and wire fraud. Loles appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport Tuesday afternoon, and is detained pending a detention hearing that is scheduled for Friday at 3.

Carson said. Loles was in charge of the church’s investments, and managing the church’s building fund and endowment. Several church members allowed Loles to handle their personal retirement and college investments, several sources within the church community said.

The church community had recently raised millions to help finance a $6.3 million building project.

According to federal documents Loles began embezzling money from the church and individual parishioners in November 2001 continuing to the day of his arrest. Loles admitted to federal agents that he embezzled the funds, according to arrest warrant affidavit. In court documents Loles states that none of the funds are left.

The church community had recently raised millions to help finance a $6.3 million building project.

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Man orders coffee with knife in his chest www.privateofficer.com

WARREN, Mich. Dec 26 2009 — man who walked into a Michigan diner with a 5-inch knife stuck in his chest ordered a coffee and complained only about the cold weather.
The 52-year-old man, who has not been identified, called a 911 operator in Warren on Sunday night to ask that an ambulance be sent to Bray’s, an eatery in neighboring Hazel Park.

He said he had been stabbed during an attempted robbery half a mile away, then walked to the restaurant and called 911 from a pay phone.

On a recording of the call, the man gives a vague description of his attacker before saying, “I’m gonna sit down at Bray’s ’cause they got a chair and it’s cold out here.”

Restaurant employee George Mirdita tells The Detroit News the man calmly ordered coffee.

Police said Tuesday that the man is recovering.

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