The NC Private Protective Services Board (PPSB) emailed out a “memo” about “out of state security guards/officers.” It is a very short and clear restatement of the law and code as is. 166A offers “security and patrol” (or other PPSB regulated professions, and the PPSB itself) NO additional “powers.” Use of “out of state” (licensed/registered/commissioned) guards/officers, or IN-state “temporary hires” in an UNARMED (no guns) capacity is (and always was) “OK” with ZERO start time.
Use of ARMED (gun) officers/guards without “registration” IS NOT ALLOWED (illegal [misdemeanor violation of 74-C] and unlawful [violations of the Administrative Code]).
10.02.24 update: A “special” Firearms Training Certificate for “Reciprocity” was distributed by the PPSB:
2024_1002_PPS_FirearmsTrainingCertificate_Emergency_Reciprocity
Here’s the “MEMO”:
Memo – Guidance and requirements for the use of probationary or out-of-state security guards 9.30.24
Here’s what IMFs can (and will) do to “help” any Security & Patrol Companies (licensed or not) that need to get “security feet/boots on the ground in the effected areas (mostly Western NC)”:
- Put you in contact with “properly/fully licensed contract N.C. security companies” (we have a very good relationship with St. Moritz, and good relationships with Condor, Allied, Securitas, others including many “small, local companies”.
- Get you (individuals and groups) your “Required in the first 20 days” First Four hours of “The Security Officer in NC” (basic/unarmed) Training. Recent update[s] to the code allow us to get this training done “remote”. We will “discount for our state” this training as much as possible. We have 6 (six) Un-Armed Guard Trainers ready and willing to “help out” in any way we can.
- Help you with “there may be (IS) a (huge) paperwork requirement”. We can submit the required background checks for you; navigate and complete “permitium” applications (or train your staff); and help you with the myriad other NC 74C “office tasks” (such as getting properly added “designee[s]” and getting ‘ink’ fingerprints [we have hundreds of “FBI Cards” and several ink pads]).
- Get you (individuals and groups) your “REQUIRED BEFORE ‘working’ (at a post or site)” ARMED training. We are located in Central (or Central/Eastern NC) but have “very good relationships” with Certified Trainers all over the state. We also “enjoy” a relationship with the PPSB that *sometimes* allows us to “shorten up” the “at least five days prior” reporting (pre-delivery/planning/scheduling) requirement before holding ANY Armed Training.
- Help you in MANY other ways – we are not just/only “Training/Instruction” people. We do – and have done for many years – “(security) business consulting.”
Contact us at info@imfscorp.com with any questions or requests. Again: we will ‘discount’ as far as we can anything that we can do to ‘help’ those that are helping ‘us’.
“BE SAFE and provide the best security available to our Friends and NC-Family!” -Dean W.
= To Our Law Enforcement Family =
First and foremost: “There are no words” so we offer a “moment of silence” for the Two Deputies (KIA Floods, EOW during the storm). RIP Jim Lau (courthouse “security”) and un-named other. “Again, there are no words, so we offer all of the words, and our ‘best’ hopes, thoughts and prayers to their families (true and blue).”
Fair Warning: Do NOT be “stealing our jobs/work”. Get “registered and a ‘security’ shirt” or get back “on the clock” at your Department, Office, or Agency. You MAY NOT work “Armed Private Security” while using “public” (tax payer) uniforms and equipment. Tell your Chiefs and Sheriffs to “keep you roaming” like you are supposed to be and submit the overtime “bills” to the State (Emergency Services, 166A). “Stay OFF our sites!”
We “beg” for your assistance: BUST (severely) any “Gun Dork S’kirty Gords” out there working armed WITHOUT proper registration/licensing. They MUST HAVE their “Armed Guard Registration Card” on their “outermost garment excluding inclement weather clothing” OR “their COMPLETE (printed from permitium) application, Affidavit and Public Notice Statement, and Range (class) Qualification Certificate” with them until their card comes in. Cite them (Misdemeanor violation of 74C), arrest them (committing a crime while carrying a firearm??), we don’t know what else, but do something “law enforcement” after consultation with your local D.A. and/or the NCDOJ and don’t let them get away with it. Please…?!