Then he should refer to himself as working in “surveillance”, because “security” involves ensuring unauthorized people cannot do unauthorized things. Theft is an unauthorized thing happening, and a system that makes no effort to control whether that happens is not a “security” system, and the people who work to enact that system aren’t “security” employees.
They’re “surveillance” employees. “Intelligence”, if you want to make it sound cooler.
So is ‘security camera’ also a misnomer? His job is to make theft less likely because he will report you to the police. That still falls in the realm of security. I will say that ‘security observer’ would be a better job title than ‘security guard’ but they never claimed a job title, just a general field of work.
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Then he should refer to himself as working in “surveillance”, because “security” involves ensuring unauthorized people cannot do unauthorized things. Theft is an unauthorized thing happening, and a system that makes no effort to control whether that happens is not a “security” system, and the people who work to enact that system aren’t “security” employees.
They’re “surveillance” employees. “Intelligence”, if you want to make it sound cooler.
So is ‘security camera’ also a misnomer? His job is to make theft less likely because he will report you to the police. That still falls in the realm of security. I will say that ‘security observer’ would be a better job title than ‘security guard’ but they never claimed a job title, just a general field of work.
Talk to any security company that has guards at unarmed posts. Our jobs are to observe and report.