Provident Security Press

Security Industry Work Opens Doors to Careers In Policing

Michael Karpinski hopes that working in the security industry will be a stepping stone to a career as a police officer.

The 24-year-old mobile patrol guard with Vancouver’s Provident Security & Event Management Corp. has a job that’s in many ways similar to police work. He patrols west side neighbourhoods, looks out for suspicious activity, and calls for backup if he comes across any criminal activity.

Once, he even had to perform CPR on a man who had collapsed at a house.
Vancouver Sun / Michael Karpinski hopes that his work with a private security company can help land him a job as a police officer.

Shooting boost business at security companies

Vancouver’s rash of shootings may be poisoning the city’s pristine image, but it’s not hurting the bottom line of the city’s private security companies.

Vancouver-based Provident Security & Event Management Corp., for example, reports that there’s an upsurge of business following incidents such as last weekend’s shooting of a man outside his Shaughnessy home.

“It definitely has an impact,” company president Michael Jagger said in an interview Monday.

Hong Chao “Raymond” Huang was fatally shot shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday in front of his house in the 3800-block of Cartier Street.

Unattached safes not safe from burglars

Even though the safe in your home weighs 800 pounds and is large enough to hold a Great Dane, it doesn’t mean determined burglars won’t steal it.

Mike Jagger, president of Kerrisdale-based Provident Security, knows of at least five large safes or vaults stolen from West Side homes in the past year.

Protect your investment against thieves

Mike Jagger, on Realty Television, talking about how to protect your investment against thieves.