How safe is it out there for Security Guards?

Kia Ora,

People hire a security guard but do they really think about the dangers they are putting them in.

Two incidents I witnessed Friday night highlighted just how close security guards sometimes come to real danger.



After completing a previously organized security task, it was back to being on standby for the new 0900 Suspicious service & whilst waiting again went out to see if I could gain any footage of criminal activity.

Took up a new position & in little over 40 minutes witnessed a number of criminal activities (two close to where guards were or appeared to be.)

The first involved a patrol in a vehicle roving around a premises. He had his lights on full & though that is not good security, with a big area it is often all the patrols are forced to do coupled with time constraints.

Only issue with lights on full was they didn't see the person at the edge of their lights dash into cover behind a container. Guard must of signed a book (in office on other side of the container) then left with lights going out & person was seen to move out onto a main road.



Twenty minutes later two persons whom I have seen before also trespassed across that private property.

Was preparing to leave when see in the other direction what appeared to be a security guard searching a property with his torch. Suddenly about 20 metres down & out of his line of sight, jumped over a fence a group of at least 3 people & who also trespassed on this other property.



Expecting the guard might of being answering an alarm, I moved to next side street to confirm before we could ring the police. But it transpired the 'guard' would of actually entered that property from next street over.

Meanwhile the new boy racer by law was in action & there was a noticeable change in tactics as well as a continuation of some old ones.



The two vehicles on the footage could be heard racing at an estimated speed of over 120kmh. The night before had seen a large number of vehicles come down that same road at speed then exit down a side road.

There was still a large number of burnouts, mainly in the line with a quick burn out then move to the next intersection & so on. Hard one to police unless someone can give a registration number.

Yet again there appeared to be shots. Problem is there were four 'reports' the first sounded like an air rifle, the next two were more explosive & the fourth had what in the military we called 'crack & thump' so a firearm was involved.



Again though like the precious occassions, it appeared to be from a moving vehicle, so unless you have a registration or have actually seen the weapon it is hard to call in.

It is actually quite common at night in Christchurch & the reckless use of firearms is more prominent as shown by a media investigation, than most people would realize. Most are just not reported.

That also came out during the shooting of a gunman in Christchurch, in that he had fired shots before but no one in the street had called the police for most incidents & the one they had he was able to explain away.

Security Guards often are facing all that on their own!

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