- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who patrols assigned area, such as public parking lot or section of city, to issue tickets to overtime parking violators.
* Winds parking meter clocks.
* Surrenders ticket book at end of shift to supervisor to facilitate preparation of violation records.
* May report missing traffic signals or signs to superior at end of shift.
* May chalk tires of vehicles parked in unmetered spaces, record time, and return at specified intervals to ticket vehicles remaining in spaces illegally.
* May collect coins deposited in meters.
* When patrolling metered spaces, may be known as Meter Attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of store detectives, conducts private investigations, and sells internal protective service to wholesale and retail businesses. Respnsibilities include:
* Assigns store detectives to shifts at various locations according to job requirements and worker's abilities, skills, and experience.
* Observes workers in performance of duties to evaluate efficiency and to detect and correct inefficient work practices.
* Interviews and hires workers to fill vacant positions.
* Demonstrates and explains methods of detecting and apprehending shoplifters.
* Explains state laws concerning arrest and detention to employees.
* Conducts private investigation to obtain information concerning such matters as divorce evidence, juvenile runaways, and background data on persons applying for employment, insurance, or bonding.
* Acts as undercover agent in retail stores to detect employee incompetency and dishonesty.
* Prepares detailed reports concerning matters investigated.
* Contacts business establishments to promote sales of security services.
* Analyzes security needs, estimates costs, and presents proposal to prospective customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of security staff to protect railroad passengers, employees, and property. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and implements programs to protect railroad passengers, employees, and property.
* Directs investigation of crimes on railroad property, freight theft claims, or suspicious damage and loss of passenger's valuables.
* Directs security activities at derailments and fires, floods and strikes involving railroad property or responsibility.
* Conducts investigations and implements programs related to fire prevention and inspections, grade crossing accident prevention, and other special safety and prevention measures.
* Directs security training of new employees.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates cash shortages occurring in sales section of department store. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives notification regarding shortage of cash from audit or sales department.
* Discusses shortage with sales department and security department supervisors.
* Reviews sales checks and cash register tapes, and counts cash to verify shortages.
* Observes personnel on closed circuit television to detect thefts.
* Questions store personnel to obtain evidence and develop cases.
* Apprehends and turns suspect over to security department.
* Prepares case summaries and testifies at hearings of suspects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates cases of fraud involving use of charge cards reported lost or stolen, cash refunds, and nonexistent accounts in retail stores. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives information from credit, sales, and collection departments regarding suspected fraud cases.
* Interviews store personnel, and observes and questions suspected customers to obtain evidence.
* Compiles detailed reports on fraud cases, and submits and discusses cases with police.
* Consults with postal officials when charge cards are reported stolen in mail.
* Testifies at court trials of offenders.
* Prepares reports of fraud cases and submits reports to security department and other store officials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts private investigations to locate missing persons, obtain confidential information, and solve crimes. Respnsibilities include:
* Questions individuals to locate missing persons.
* Conducts surveillance of suspects using binoculars and cameras.
* Conducts background investigation of individual to obtain data on character, financial status, and personal history.
* Examines scene of crime for clues and submits fingerprints and findings to laboratory for identification and analysis.
* Writes reports of investigations for clients.
* Reports criminal information to police and testifies in court.
* May investigate activities of individuals in divorce and child custody cases.
* May arrange lie detector tests for employees of clients or witnesses.
* May escort valuables to protect client's property.
* May be employed in commercial or industrial establishments for undercover work or be assigned to guard persons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shops in commercial, retail, and service establishments to test integrity of sales and service personnel, and evaluates sales techniques and services rendered customers. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews establishment's policies and standards to ascertain employee-performance requirements.
* Buys merchandise, orders food, or utilizes services to evaluate sales technique and courtesy of employee.
* Carries merchandise to check stand or sales counter and observes employee during sales transaction to detect irregularities in listing or calling prices, itemizing merchandise, or handling cash.
* Delivers purchases to agency conducting shopping investigation service.
* Writes report of investigations for each establishment visited.
* Usually works as member of shopping investigation crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates source of alarm and trouble signals on subscribers' premises, as recorded in central station of electrical protective signaling system. Respnsibilities include:
* Drives radio-equipped car to subscriber's establishment, and locates source of alarm.
* Investigates disturbances, such as unlawful intrusion, fires, and property damage.
* Apprehends unauthorized persons found on property, using armed force if necessary, and releases them to custody of authorities.
* Contacts supervisor by radio or telephone to report irregularities and obtain further instructions.
* Adjusts and repairs subscriber's signaling equipment to restore service, using handtools.
* Coordinates activities with police and fire departments during alarms.
* Writes investigation and automobile usage reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who protects property of business establishment by detecting vandalism, thievery, shoplifting, or dishonesty among employees or patrons, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Conducts investigations on own initiative or on request of management.
* Stakes out company grounds to apprehend suspects in illegal acts.
* Questions suspects and apprehends culprits.
* Files complaints against suspects and testifies in court as witness.
* Writes case reports.
* Alerts other retail establishments when person of known criminal character is observed in store.
* May be designated according to type of establishment as Store Detective.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols hotel or motel premises to maintain order, enforce regulations, and ensure observance of applicable laws. Respnsibilities include:
* Patrols lobbies, corridors, and public rooms, confers with management, interviews guests and employees, and interrogates persons to detect infringements and investigate disturbances, complaints, thefts, vandalisms, and accidents.
* Patrols public areas to detect fires, unsafe conditions, and missing or inoperative safety equipment.
* Warns or ejects troublemakers, and cautions careless persons.
* Obtains assistance for accident victims and writes accident reports.
* Notifies staff of presence of persons with questionable reputations.
* Assists management and enforcement officers in emergency situations.
* Usually is not armed.
* May enter and check rooms of guests suspected of leaving without paying bill to confirm suspicions and to seize any remaining personal property.
Industry:Professional careers
