[focusracer]

As for security companies, they suck, for the most part. It's very easy to get your BST1 or BST2 certification. All security companies want is a body they can stick somewhere because quite often just having a person on location watching is enough of a deterrent.

I DJ at a bar. In the city that the bar is located in, bar's are required to have a security company for their bouncers. We have 7 guys on a Friday night supplied by the security firm. They are all useless, either weigh in at about a 120 pounds soaking wet or 350+ lbs and has to stop halfway up the stairs to catch his breath. After a number of incidents where it took all 7 of them to remove one person while there was about 320people inside and another fight breaking out that I had to come out of the dj booth and break up (ended up in 4 on 1 brawl, I had a sore head from a boot to the side of it and 4 broken knuckles after that one, I'm Scottish, I'm cheap, especially in a situation like that. 2 unconcious, one broken nose and onearm wrapped around his own head screaming in pain as I marched him out the door.). My boss decided to give me a budget and make head of security. I reduced the security guards to 4 and brought in 2 real bouncers. Both are 6'2" ish and around the 250-275 mark and solid. Since they started, we've only had 1 problem. It was solved in about 30 seconds flat. I got on the radio, instead of announcing over the p.a. they've both got earpieces, they were there and had the guy in an arm lock and out the door in seconds, 1 in control of him, 1 watching the crowd for threats as well as me watching from the dj booth. Other than that, no problems because people know that they're serious.

Bottom line, security guards are 95% useless.