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Thumbnail image for How To Clean Out Your Smelly Duty Boots – Easily!

Taking care of your duty gear is as important for a security guard as a police officer or other LEO as for a soldier in the field. Most of us have some kind of uniform, and more often than not, that kit contains a pair (or several pairs) of duty boots of some kind. Some are insulated, some aren’t, some are for summer use, others are for muddy spring or fall use, and so on. Common for all of them is that they usually end up smelling like the blind end of a dog, which isn’t a good thing. Since ...

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Thumbnail image for Explosives Detection and “Alarm Resolution”? Decoding TSA-speak

The TSA doesn’t really want you to read what’s in here. They’ve said so many times, and their SOPs even say so. Here’s what’s strange, though: all the information we’ve got here is available to anyone who’ve worked some kind of advanced security, read a couple of books on the subject and searched through some patent archives. And that’s why we’re going to tell you how the TSA’s mystical “Explosives Trace Detection” works, what it does and what they really mean when they talk about “alarm resolution”. It’s simpler than you think… TSA and SSI, K-I-S-S-I-N-G… If you’ve been unlucky ...

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Thumbnail image for TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners – blames manufacturers

So. The well-loved TSA has decided to remove its backscatter x-ray body scanners, citing concerns that the manufacturer(s) haven’t been able to come up with viewing software that makes the person being scanned into a generic little stick figure with red boxes where the “dangerous” things are. The US congress have put considerable pressure on the agency to do something about their full body scanners with privacy in mind, and the agency seems to have relented. There’s a “but”. There always is. In the last six months or so, some crafty people have proven that the bodyscanners can be fooled. ...

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Thumbnail image for US: More Security Officers than Police Officers Killed on Duty

It’s easy to forget, at times, but security officers also die on duty – not just law enforcement and police. It hasn’t really been possible to look those stats up anywhere, until now. The ODMP.org says 126 police officers died while on duty last year, but there’s something in that number which is hard to see at first glance; that includes natural causes, as well as crimes. So let’s look a little harder; Private Officer International (POI) has started keeping track of private security officer deaths on duty, concentrating mostly on so-called “feloniously killed” officers. That means they’ve been shot, ...

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Thumbnail image for Best Stocking Stuffers Ever, or Toys’R'Us for Security

If you’re anything like us, you’re not even remotely done with the Christmas shopping. Hell, we’ve decided not to even start until we know if there’s still a world to wake up to tomorrow. Only time will tell, we suppose. If nothing else, this end-of-the-world thing might save our wallets from a cataclysmic event. Seems unlikely, though. So, blatantly disregarding the possible end of the world as we know it, here’s a few of our favorite things that we would love to see in our stockings this year – or under the tree for that matter. Wrapped, unwrapped… we don’t ...

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