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The most obvious difference between Security and Police work
is this: The police investigate crimes and maintain order in
society. The security professional protects the assets of the
client. Our national security forces include the Secret Service
and various intelligence agencies. They care about crime, but
their primary goal is to protect the assets of the client. The
client is the President of the United States for the Secret Service
(they have related duties) and the financial solvency, individual
liberties and national boundaries for the intelligence agencies.
Technologists in security are a rare and necessary group
of
men and women with profound competencies and excellent loyalties.
They install, maintain, modify, inspect and repair such diverse
security locations as the embassy's the United States has around the
world, perimeters of military bases and defense installations (like
submarine manufacturing industries) and other high tech
activities.
Private industry uses technologists in security to install
video cameras in retail stores and thermal sensors in perimeter
fences. The prison industry of the United States is one of the
fastest growing employment opportunities you can find and they--both
private and public--hire technologists for the application of
technology to security. For prisons, the protection of the assets
focuses upon the residents and citizens of the country, state,
municipality and/or county where the crime occurred.
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