Image from Shutterstock.com The power of communication is nothing new to law enforcement and emergency response. It's often said in law enforcement that the fastest fleeing felon is no match for a police radio. In many cases, solid communications can mean life or death. Consider the most extreme example of the past several [...]
By James A. DeMeo, M.S., adjunct instructor of event security at Tulane University and founder, president and CEO of USESC The tragedy coming out of the Las Vegas-Mandalay Bay mass shootings, a black swan event has event security leaders rethinking the playbook for properly safeguarding today’s confined spaces. The concept of an aerial assault prior to [...]
The IFPO is pleased to announce a partnership with Missouri-based Castle Defense 360, a certified service disabled veteran owned small business. According to Castle's website, the company provides "a wide array of training and protective services that exceed industry standards which are available to the general public, all levels of government, Law Enforcement, 1st Responders [...]
March 16, 2018 CS Staff, Campussafetymagazine.com After what seems like a never-ending spree of school shootings, people are wondering what can be done to put a stop to these tragic events. After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016, the NFPA began working on a new standard that established preparedness, response and recovery benchmarks with a focus [...]
BY CLYDE HEWITT, CISSP, CHS ON MAR 5, 2018, SecurityInfoWatch.com Many organizations have adopted a herd mentality by assigning the security incident responsibility to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or senior security official (CISO). Unfortunately, this myopic approach is a prescription for the organization to make serious errors and delay responding based on two key observations. March [...]
From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews: Florida Hospital will soon deploy its newest security department employees across its Central Florida campuses: effortlessly-adorable gunpowder-sniffing canines. The dogs are part of the health system’s new three-tiered security force, created after the Pulse shooting tragedy and other mass shooting incidents across the country in recent years. IFPO grads can now continue learning [...]
By Jacob Passy, Marketwatch, The New York Post: At some hotels in Walt Disney World, “Do Not Disturb” signs have checked out for good. Walt Disney World has removed the signs from the four hotels located on the Monorail loop that connects with the Magic Kingdom theme park: Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort [...]
Congrats to IFPO Past Chairman Tom M. Conley, M.A., CPP, CPOI, CPO of The Conley Group, Inc. in Des Moines, IA, for his blog post, The Las Vegas Massacre: The Anatomy of a Catastrophic Security Failure listed as the number-one story by Security Magazine Editor-in-Chief Diane Ritchey. Ritchey wrote, "While the investigation into the shooting continues, Tom Conley highlighted [...]
Jesus Campos was initially hailed as a hero in the first days after the Las Vegas massacre. Questions then arose as to the timeline of events -- specifically when Campos was shot -- with conflicting information coming from the Mandalay Bay and local police. Next, there was Campos' vanishing act, skipping out on several media appointments [...]
It's very curious how Ellen was selected as the platform to deliver Campos' answers. First, she is a comedienne, not a journalist, and second, and even more important, she appears to have a vested interest in MGM's Mandalay Bay -- Ellen Dance Party slot machines -- where the massacre occurred. In addition, the producers of the [...]
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