Security guards at John F. Kennedy Airport are threatening to walk off the job this month.

Roughly 21,000 private security officers are employed in New Jersey, and the average wage is $11.74 an hour, according to the unions. 

The proposed bill in the Virginia state legislature would allow retired police officers to work as full-time school security officers while still collecting pension benefits.

Every job has new hire orientation – you get the employee handbook; discuss the dress code and benefits; take the tour of your new workplace. But for security officers, training usually doesn’t stop there. Security officers have to be the front line of an organization’s security force, prepared with all the tools necessary to handle the worst situations.

After a loss of TSA funding, the $44-per-hour police service proved too expensive for the airport.

A security test was being widely circulated among security officers at the Y-12 Nuclear Facility in Tennessee, where it was used as a study aid instead of a secret exam.

The blast-protected and fully integrated C4I equipment in the vehicle means a safe security vehicle with total system performance, reliability and comfort, the makers say. 

Security officer titles and perceptions, workplace violence incidents and alphabet soup top the list of this week's most popular articles at SecurityMagazine.com.

The Baltimore police department is re-evaluating a program that empowers certain security officers to act as police officers and make arrests.