Security Management

Online – 140 Hours

 

Program Description

This course covers the principles of security management and the operations involved to protect the business and assets. The course covers a wide variety of areas and provides knowledge of the principles of loss and decision making within the security environment.

The course provides an overview of the factors that form a modern security management team, and will show the student how to reduce the employer's exposure to liability.

Course Objectives:

Course Outline:

  1. Rationale and Processes.
    1. Identify the elements of crime showing the two main classes they are divided into.
    1. Identify the four individual functions of security management.
    2. Define the six additional tasks of management.
  1. Organisation and Planning.
    1. Explain why delegation of authority/responsibility can create problems in organizations and introduce how to maintain an acceptable 'balance of power'.
    2. Describe the Alpha, Beta and Gamma methods of classification.
    3. Discuss the objects of the statement of policy.
  2. Management and Security.
    1. Discuss how management by objectives helps overcome problems of managers and professionals.
    2. Summarize how information systems are used and what role information technology plays.
    3. Define the span of leadership.
    4. Describe Likert's four possible systems of management based on behavioural theories.
  3. Security Personnel.
    1. Explore how a personnel policy can be developed within the security organisation showing development of a framework.
    2. Explain the steps that occur from recruitment to training.
    3. Introduce four types of interviews, which the personnel department can utilize.
  4. Budgeting.
    1. Discuss Budget Control, requirements that must be met and impeding factors.
    2. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of Budgets.
  5. Decision-Making.
    1. On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
    2. Analyze the development of alternative solutions and factors assisting in the final solution.
  6. Security Threats.
    1. Define the different types of crime and unethical practices.
    2. Describe the five possible explanations for security losses which could result from a burglary.
    3. Analyze how different causes of waste are classified.
  7. Systems.
    1. Explain the three separate but inter-dependent sub-systems of care.
    2. Assess the characteristics and operation of the Delphi technique.
  8. Background to Crime.
    1. Define the following types of crime:
      • White Collar Crime
      • Political Crime
    2. Analyse the affects of three drugs that cause hallucinations and delusions.
    3. Describe how unemployment plays a part in crime.
  9. Burglaries and Theft.
    1. Identify the points that should be considered when hiring casual labor.
    2. Define the rules to be followed when dealing with a total stranger.
    3. Introduce the procedures necessary when leaving children alone at home.
  10. Hijacking.
    1. Explain your understanding of:
      • Transport hijacker
      • Operational hijacking
    2. Discuss the five main options open to a hijacker.
    3. Describe steps that can be taken to ensure safety when leaving home.
    4. Examine precautions you can adopt when breaking down in an urban area.
  11. Domestic Violence.
    1. Assess ways in which physical and sexual violence can be inflicted on women and how it is displayed.
    2. Explain the effects of domestic violence and the psychological effects on women the battered syndrome has.
    3. Identify characteristics of battered women and the battering men.
  12. Child Abuse.
    1. Investigate the different types of child abuse and the affects of emotional and physical abuse.
    2. Discuss the long-term effects of sexual abuse.
  13. Rape.
    1. Examine hostility in a rapist and give factors that bring this out in his character.
    2. Assess the four tactics women can use when trying to escape from a rapist and offer tactics useful during a rape assault.
    3. Describe symptoms women, exposed to sexual harassment in the workplace, may suffer from.

This course is an online course. With online study you have access to your entire course from the start of your studies. You can access your course materials, and submit all of your question papers to your personal tutor, online from anywhere in the World using your unique student account.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

 

We impose no time limits or pressures on you to complete your course material. Your course will not expire, and it will not become invalid until you have successfully completed it. All that we ask, is that you inform the College if you are intending to take a break from studying for a period of 6 months or more.

 

Depending on the course you study, each lesson should take you between 3 - 6 hours of study. Please note: This is only an approximate figure and is dependent upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

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