Ethics in Security Professionals' Careers and Special Skills

Security Professionals
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Security Professionals
Part A: Career options for security professionals
Security professionals can venture into private investigation to offer services to a variety of clients. As a private investigator, the individual gets to investigate a particular subject in detail to come up with inferences. Dependent on the case under investigation, the professional would require the necessary skills to determine the motives, causes, or culprits responsible (Smith, Schmalleger, & Siegel, 2017, p.155). The investigation process involves interviewing different people to gather more information about the problem, including background checks, uncovering clues from records or materials available, and conducting surveillance to determine culpability. Apart from that, a private investigator also collects evidence to enable him/her to mount a viable case and close it eventually. These processes require experience from security professionals that have previously encountered different circumstances involving both criminal and civil matters. Therefore, a career in private investigations provides an opportunity to use skills and experiences learned in the industry on private clients or organizations.
More so, security professionals can also venture into retail security and loss prevention. This involves apprehending shoplifters and any employees that may be involved in malicious activities leading to losses for the retailer. Therefore, the aim of these professionals involves preventing inventory loss by instigating measures that prevent loss of merchandise, ultimately increasing profitability. They are also tasked with tackling retail shrinkage that occurs when there is inventory not accounted for through sales or any other processes that may be termed legitimate (Smith, Schmalleger, & Siegel, 2017, p.182). In such cases, the investigation must be done to determine the source of leakages to ensure that they are minimized hence ensuring all inventory are properly accounted for by the organization. Security professionals can use their skills and experiences to find trends and behaviors among individuals likely to be committing malicious acts on the retailer's premises.
Security professionals may also be involved in emergency, crisis and disaster management. Incidents that involve emergencies in most cases are unplanned, thus happen by surprise. In this profession, they can be involved in the different steps of preparation, planning, prevention, mitigation, and recovery before and after a disaster. Before a disaster, security professionals may be involved in intelligence collection and sharing, screening and searching for potential leads, and public awareness and warning (Smith, Schmalleger, & Siegel, 2017, p.238). During the disaster, they can be involved in the coordination of activities, rescue operations and situational assessment. These activities require individuals with the appropriate experience to deal with mass events that may be traumatizing. Security professionals are well trained to react to such situations, hence their experiences can help in emergency disaster management to reduce the number of casualties.
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