Tens of thousands of private security guards in California play a critical role in public safety, but poverty-level wages and poor training put both the guards and the public at risk, according to a ...

In 2004, when California first started regulating security-guard licenses more extensively, the nation was at war and the memory of 9/11 was fresh. It made sense, then, that state leaders decided to ...

Recent incidents involving security guards in Saskatchewan have raised wider questions about how they're trained to handle conflict. In Prince Albert, an investigation is looking into the reasons why ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - More than 80 percent of California's buildings, power facilities and other vital structures are in private hands, watched over most closely by security guards on the lookout mainly ...