How to Manage a Security Guard Company

Book excerpt: This publication features a compendium of best practices tailored to the needs of the private security services entrepreneur. Readers are treated to a host of innovative concepts for managing and growing a private security business.Strategies include the science of post assignments, security officer archetypes, private security key performance indicators, client retention strategies, patrol route design and more.These concepts are described at length by JW Murphey, an author who founded and personally managed his own security firm. Murphey illustrates the concepts through the use of case studies that will hold the interest of the reader and inspire the implementation of these strategies and best practices.