Tag: Security Officers
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields partners with Athena Security
May 14, 2025SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas — Athena Security has announced Franciscan Health Olympia Fields hospital in Chicago's South Suburbs will utilize Athena Security's weapons detection platform.
Athena cited health care professionals experiencing the highest rates of workplace violence of any private industry sector as impetus for the partnership. Franciscan Alliance is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest with 12 hospital campuses in Indiana and Illinois, including Franciscan...
Securitas training 10,000 data center professionals
February 21, 2024SSN Staff
STOCKHOLM – Securitas has revealed that it aims to certify 10,000 officers as data center security and safety professionals following the establishment of the Global Clients Data Center Group in 2023.
Securitas said it’s now taking an important next step by strengthening the skills of its security officers by introducing a certification for managing data centers’ diverse security challenges with efficiency and expertise. Calling data centers the unseen backbone that enables everything...
Per Mar honored as 2023 business of the year
August 22, 2023SSN Staff
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Per Mar Security Services was honored as Business of the Year at the 2023 Quad Cities Chamber Annual Meeting on August 10, 2023.
Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa for nearly 70 years, Per Mar started in the living room of John and Eleanor Duffy in 1953 and grew to 25 branch locations throughout the Midwest. The company has been particularly active in their hometown area, supporting a number of non-profit organizations with employees volunteering regularly in the community.
“Over...
Magos, Nightingale partner for radar/drone solution
February 23, 2023SSN Staff
REHOVOT, Israel, and NEWARK, Calif. – Radar detection technology company Magos Systems is partnering with robotic aerial security company Nightingale Security for a fully autonomous radar-activated drone solution.
It combines Nightingale’s autonomous “Blackbird” drone with Magos’ ground-based radar, allowing it to respond independently to events, which Magos says makes it a force multiplier for human guard forces. The radar works together with PTZ cameras and Magos’...
Portland city council votes to increase security spending amid rise in crime
September 1, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
PORTLAND, Ore. – Concerns of losses to theft and property destruction prompted the Portland City Council to move up a vote this week.
Agenda item 739 called for the amending of the city’s contract with Allied Universal Security Services to increase the amount paid for security officer services by a total of $4,297,809 USD. “This as the mayor was saying is an increase due to (sic) remain competitive for our officer’s pay rate, but also a big chunk of it has to do with an...