Security and Police Sciences
Distance Learning Program

There are few fields where proper training is as critical as it is in the security and police professions. Failure to follow exact procedures during routine encounters or investigations can lead to injuries, loss of valuable evidence, failure to secure a conviction or innocent people being subjected to injustice.

Stratford’s Security/Police Sciences Program has been carefully designed by security and law enforcement experts to provide valuable training for both first time students and established professionals. In particular, it has helped to prepare students to rise through the ranks to high level security positions. Consequently, the reading materials explain why certain courses of action are taken, what factors security personnel need to consider when making plans and some of the organizational and management issues that will affect their work.   Request More Information

• Security personnel are generally expected to protect people, assets and information from crime, accidents, fire, natural disasters and certain forms of worker incompetence.

• Personal protection specialists (bodyguards) are a special category of guards, assigned to protect the life of a particular person or group of people.

• Couriers and armored-car guards represent another specialized form of guard service.

• Investigators obtain information related to crimes, fires, accidents, natural disasters and the misfeasance (inappropriate actions) or nonfeasance (inappropriate nonaction) of others, as well as to locate missing objects and people, find heirs mentioned in wills, observe the actions of spouses, employees, workers’ compensation claimants and conduct background investigations.

• Technical experts may specialize in detection of deception (polygraph examiners), electronic surveillance and its countermeasures, computer security, fire and intrusion detection systems and fire and crime prevention and control systems, among other areas.

• Managers are responsible for seeing that their security units get the job done as effectively and efficiently as possible. Responsibilities include: planning, budgeting, staffing, conducting internal and external public relations activities, selecting training and supervising employees; taking corrective action when warranted, firing undesirable employees, motivating employees, organizing and coordinating the unit’s activities, evaluating the unit’s performance, and preparing and presenting oral and written reports on the unit’s past, present and future activities.

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