FEEDBACK FROM PROFESOR Total points earned (rounded): 143 out of 150 (95%). Task Requirements points earned: 37.5 out of 37.5 (100%). Demonstration and application of knowledge points earned: 82.5 out of 82.5 (100%). Academic writing and format points earned: 22.5 out of 30 (75%). Strengths: Your Key Assignment draft was very well written and you are heading in the right direction as far as information. Also, excellent work explaining your overall plan as the security manager. Your proposed recommendations were efficient in ensuring safety and present a clear understanding of the course materials. I would suggest completing several drafts to improve grammar, spelling issues and the use APA format of resources. Keep up the good work! Opportunities for improvement: Please review the APA guide regarding your formatting of in-text citations. While your attempt was good, they need to be in proper format. ASSIGNMENT Assignment Guidelines word count 1500-2000 Revise your Week 4 Key Assignment according to instructor and peer feedback. Next, add the following sections to your final Key Assignment draft: Planning The planning that takes place in advance of action is used as a tool for predicting the future and, at the same time, attempting to control and influence future events in an organization. The planning process entails 4 steps. Define the 4 steps listed below in detail. Then, explain how you plan on initiating each of these 4 steps to assist you in planning security services for the facility. Establishing a goal or set of goals Defining the present situation Determining or identifying age and barriers Developing a set of actions Training You should describe what training needs to be done to get the officers ready for their positions. In this response, you will focus on the type of training medium that you will use for the officers, such as seminars and lectures, on-the-job training, and mentoring, just to name a few. You will also discuss the legal issue of failure to train in your response and review how this is a liability to your organization and to the client organization. PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED PAPER LOCALLY OPERATED SECURITY COMPANY Anthony W. Russell Colorado Technical University Prof. Charles Russo Locally Operated Security Company Introduction In establishing a private security organization, there are basic knowledge and skills required to have an efficient team. For starters, one must put in place a dynamic hiring process that will ensure that the personnel picked are competent and can handle the security requirements of the designated facility. Besides that, after having selected the right candidates, it is vital to develop a shift schedule that is flexible enough to ensure that optimization of the performance is guaranteed. Furthermore, for a private security service organization to serve a facility well, there is need to have a coordinated relationship with other security organs and to be in communication with them so as ...

1. FEEDBACK FROM PROFESOR
Total points earned (rounded): 143 out of 150 (95%).
Task Requirements points earned: 37.5 out of 37.5 (100%).
Demonstration and application of knowledge points earned: 82.5
out of 82.5 (100%).
Academic writing and format points earned: 22.5 out of 30
(75%).
Strengths: Your Key Assignment draft was very well written
and you are heading in the right direction as far as information.
Also, excellent work explaining your overall plan as the
security manager. Your proposed recommendations were
efficient in ensuring safety and present a clear understanding of
the course materials. I would suggest completing several drafts
to improve grammar, spelling issues and the use APA format of
resources. Keep up the good work!
Opportunities for improvement: Please review the APA guide
regarding your formatting of in-text citations. While your
attempt was good, they need to be in proper format.
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment Guidelines word count 1500-2000
Revise your Week 4 Key Assignment according to instructor
and peer feedback.
Next, add the following sections to your final Key Assignment
draft:
Planning
The planning that takes place in advance of action is used as a
tool for predicting the future and, at the same time, attempting
to control and influence future events in an organization. The
planning process entails 4 steps.
Define the 4 steps listed below in detail. Then, explain how you

2. plan on initiating each of these 4 steps to assist you in planning
security services for the facility.
Establishing a goal or set of goals
Defining the present situation
Determining or identifying age and barriers
Developing a set of actions
Training
You should describe what training needs to be done to get the
officers ready for their positions. In this response, you will
focus on the type of training medium that you will use for the
officers, such as seminars and lectures, on-the-job training, and
mentoring, just to name a few. You will also discuss the legal
issue of failure to train in your response and review how this is
a liability to your organization and to the client organization.
PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED PAPER
LOCALLY OPERATED SECURITY COMPANY
Anthony W. Russell
Colorado Technical University
Prof. Charles Russo
Locally Operated Security Company
Introduction
In establishing a private security organization, there are basic
knowledge and skills required to have an efficient team. For
starters, one must put in place a dynamic hiring process that
will ensure that the personnel picked are competent and can
handle the security requirements of the designated facility.
Besides that, after having selected the right candidates, it is
vital to develop a shift schedule that is flexible enough to
ensure that optimization of the performance is guaranteed.
Furthermore, for a private security service organization to serve
a facility well, there is need to have a coordinated relationship
with other security organs and to be in communication with
them so as to maximize their effectiveness.
Hiring
Having been positioned as the security director in a large hotel

3. and convention center, I do appreciate the fact that an effective
recruitment strategy is vital to procuring high caliber of talent
and also contributes immensely to my organization's success. I
also I’m appreciative of the fact the job market today has
become so competitive and that the skills sets are growing
immensely and this calls for recruiters to be a bit more selective
when picking candidates. It is thus vital to employ a strategy
that would ensure my organization recruits the right quality
personnel who are extremely competent.
How to hire personnel
It is imperative that at this juncture I take advantage of this new
era in which technology rules almost everything. I will thus
capitalize on this to find qualified applicants to hire and meet
the needs of the company having this aspect in mind; I do find
that the best recruitment strategy for the organization is the
strategy that employs the use of a job search engine (Luo, et. al.
2007).This is the best strategy to use it is an excellent way to
reach job seekers fast. It is a better way also to recruit
personnel directly. Search engines such as the US.jobs can be
used to post the company listed vacancies.
The standards and qualifications that individuals should meet.
It is our high expectation to establish and organization of honor.
Thus the recruits should be able to represent very high
standards of integrity, loyalty, professionalism, accountability
and respect.
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The basic requirement would include:
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Individuals who are 19years of age and above.
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They should be physically fit and of excellent health.
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4. Should have no previous criminal convictions and any pending
criminal charges as an adult.
Educational Requirement
The selected recruit should at minimum have a grade 12
diploma or its equivalent and above that at least possess a
minimum of 30 credits of academic from an accredited college
or university in their post-secondary education and any relevant
field. It should be noted that these requirements will take
precedence and applicants must first qualify in this before they
go ahead to apply for the job. A background experience in the
military and with any other law enforcement agency will be an
additional advantage.
Any pre-employment background investigations, screening, or
testing that will be done.
All applicants will undergo a dynamic inquiry process that will
involve, a background check that will look at their criminal
records. The process will be conducted statewide so as to be
able to uncover any previous convictions. This is informed by
the belief that recruits with no criminal background have been
proven to be least prone to temptations.
Another important investigation will revolve around a reference
check on the recruit’s character. Thus recruits will be expected
to provide personal references so as to ascertain their personal
and fiscal responsibility management through telephone contact
of the referees.
Finally, the investigation will extend to previous employment
reports. This will be done for employment positions previously
held by the candidate, and if one has never been employed, then
they should be able to provide the organizations with referees
that they are not related to.
Once an applicant is approved, they will undergo screen through
initial interviews that will be carried out by a specialist and
hence evaluate various factors such as the candidate's
dependability, their character, and appearance professionally.
The interviews will be vigorous and will be conducted by
experts so as to arrive at a competent group.

5. The successful candidates will then be tested for drugs through
an established panel drug test as they are expected to maintain
the requirement for a work environment that is drug-free.
Besides that their photographs and fingerprints will be taken
and also forwarded for further analysis to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to also act as a background check facilitation.
Relevant legal issues in the recruitment and selection process
that I need to be concerned with
The recruitment and selection process legal aspects of concern
for our organization revolve around the need to ensure that
company efforts are conducted in a manner that does not appear
to expose the organization to risks.
Thus, during the process consideration must be made to ensure
no illegal or discriminatory questions are encouraged. Thus the
process should be free from any discrimination.
Shift Scheduling
This is a 24-hour, 8-hour shift coverage for the facility, having
initially been provided with the authority to hire only 12
security officers. Who in this case are hypnotically presented by
the alphabets A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L, respectively.
The employee considerations that I have considered before
designing the schedule of my officers are concerns such as
making sure that employees have maximum satisfaction at the
workplace and this has been ensured by the way the schedule is
created giving them workdays that are predictable. Besides that
consideration has been given to coverage requirements whereby
the employees scheduled in each shift ensure that they are able
and can comfortably cover the facility each period without
having to overwork themselves. The other consideration regards
the issue of fatigue in that the scheduled has been appropriately
designed to allow room to countermeasure the problem of
employees experiencing significant levels of fatigue (Caruso, C.
C., & Waters, T. R. 2008). The 8 hours shift allows the room to
rotate and have sufficient sleep time.

6. The legal considerations that have been made include designing
a schedule that is in line with the important responsibility of my
organization as the employer to ensure that the employees are
subjected to safe work practices and thus the reason why they
have a schedule that offers the reasonable working hours, with
appropriate and safe shift schedules.
An eight-hour shift is most beneficial to me so as to provide the
coverage needed for the facility. For, the ten-hour shift and the
twelve-hour shift runs the risk of having the employees much
more. In an eight-hour shift there is no overlapping of the
shifts, and hence there are no risks of having the capacity to
double the coverage unnecessarily (Fauth, R., & McVerry, A.
2008).
Relations with University Police and Other Challenges
My understanding of the history of private will play a
significant role in ensuring that communication with UPD is
improved and maintained throughout. Thus, I will effectively
establish and maintain a liaison program that would enable
better communication between my organization and the UPD
regarding the establishment of and maintenance of agreement
and cooperation between the two (International Foundation for
Protection Officers, 2017). Thus by liaising with the UPD, I
will always strive to ensure that communication is enabled and
freely flows between my officers and the UPD personnel.
Besides facilitating the existing of a trustful relationship that is
governed by respect for each other. I will thus use my historical
understandings of the workings of the private security field to
establish a cooperative approach that can enable the free flow of
relevant information between our private entity and the UPD for
the security benefit of the company.
As the supervisor, I see my role in promoting positive
relationship as being the link that will help in the elimination of
any credibility gap that may be inexistent between UPD and our
organization. Thus, I will ensure in the first place that there are
scheduled annual and monthly meetings and also make sure that
there is an inclusion of my organization representative in the

7. UPD command and control center most especially when there
exist emergencies. Besides that, I will play the role of building
a special-interest relationship that will eventually enable the
corporation of the two departments and establish a close
relationship with the UPD this can be done through scheduling
regular bonding meetings (Wampler, C. W. 2010).
The type of training that I do find to be useful between my
department and the UPD is training sessions that are aimed at
covering various topics of interest and needs; such training
topics may include the issues of new crime trends. The other
training of importance is one that is intended to facilitate the
exchange of expertise that would fill gaps that exist in each
respective department. Training on networking is also vital most
especially one that is designed to effectively discuss problems
that are common to all and that is aimed at facilitating each
entities ability to understand the programs put in place by the
other so as to ensure coordination is made possible. Active
interdepartmental communication training is vital as it will most
significantly enable better coordination and create a better
understanding of each other most especially in regards to having
the two departments working together in harmony.
I see two major problems, for instance, the challenge of current
inability to clarify the roles played by each of the departments
and the other being the practice of stereotyping regarding our
officers being looked down upon. All this can be cured through
an establishment of an active liaison program that is geared
towards encouraging UPD and our department teamwork.
Conclusion
The private security organization being established will be able
to hire qualified officers with good knowledge on security
matters and with the best set of skills. The hiring process is
vigorous enough to facilitate this. Additionally, the shift
schedule developed can ensure that our officers are always on
the alert and are not overworked. The coordination of our
organization with the UPD will be boosted by the effective
communication initiatives and joint training programs that have

8. the capacity to ensure improved relation that will make sure that
we meet the set objectives
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