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(Ensuring security is critical to the safety of your facility and employees. But safety can be hard to
achieve in hazardous environments if your security staff is not trained to recognize unsafe condi-
tions and doesn’t account for the unique regulatory requirements of your industry, such as com-
plying with the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS). Allied Universal’s plant security
solutions support a culture of safety that focuses on both the procedures and processes that guide
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Contract security should be viewed
as a partnership with the munic-
ipality where the police have the
time and resources to concentrate
on the police work while the con-
tract security team can focus on ac-
tivities that do not warrant the use
of sworn police professionals.
for example, can be an effective
deterrent, allowing only unarmed
people who should be in the court-
house, to enter.
Today’s municipalities are begin-
ning to realize that they don’t need
sworn police offers handing out
name tags, “wanding” visitors or
Trained security professionals sta- manning x-ray machines when se-
tioned at a courthouse or city hall, curity professionals can be trained
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