EXERCISE #1 - PART 1: PRIVATE SECURITY SELECTION AND TRAINING "Private Security Officer Selection and Training Guideline" is a 2010 ASIS International document that offers state regulatory agencies with "consistent minimum qualifications to improve the performance of private security officers and the quality of security services." After thoroughly reviewing this document, describe how you, as a corporate security operative, would react to the ASIS guidance and state whether or not you would support the guidelines relating to the regulation of security and pre-assignment, post assignment, and annual training requirements. More importantly, explain your rationale and the justification you would provide to the organization's CEO for the added annual expense that likely would result. Also, you are asked to research your home state's private security training requirements and report it in this discussion and comment on its potential effectiveness for improving security operative performance and professionalism. Response: As corporate security operative, I would use the ASIS guidance as a foundation when selection security officers as well as when training them. This guidance not only explains what to look for in a potential candidate, but it also lays out the proper way to prepare them once selected. As it pertains to pre-assignment, post assignment, and annual training requirements, I would most certainly support this practice. In the pre-assignment area of this guideline is where the new officers will get there initial briefing, detailing theirjob requirements and what's expected of them. The post assignment area of this guideline is where the officers have on the job training and where they are given the tools that are necessary to complete their duties. Lastly, officer refreshers and annual courses, will all be completed in the yearly training area of this guideline. Annual training helps officers stay on top of their assigned duties to ensure maximum proficiency. When justifying the added annual expenses to the organization's CEO, I would explain the need to not only selected the best personnel for the job, but also the need to train them to protect the corporation's assets. An untrained officer would not