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The Canadian Association of Security Professionals (CA🍁SP) remembers that, on 06 December 2024, 22 year old security guard Harshandeep Singh was killed while patrolling an apartment complex in Edmonton. He had been on the job for only three days, had Read More …

Security professionals are expected to engage in challenging, dangerous, and litigious situations. Often, subjects will target security professionals with verbal and physical abuse. Their goal being to make the security professional “loose their cool”, and act unprofessionally. The subject then Read More …

Many provinces do not consider “bouncers” working in bars and night clubs to be “security”. They are not licenced or regulated like security guards. However, bouncers are the most active security professionals! Very few other security posts have this much Read More …

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗖𝗔🍁𝗦𝗣’s proposed National Security Training standards were highlighted in Canadian Occupational Safety magazine.

Reading the Winnipeg Free Press article, two things stand out: For the security guards, that amounts to 72,500 $/guard/year. The guard gets a portion of that, and the rest goes to benefits (maybe), uniform, vehicle, and company overhead. According to Read More …

The CA🍁SP Watchdog chronicles the known death of all the security guards. Why? Security guards are increasingly being assigned duties that were formerly police duties: bylaw enforcement, transit enforcement, community patrols, evictions, etc. For all of these duties, there is Read More …