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title: How To Hire A Security Officer Checklist | Security Officers for Hire
description: USI Security's comprehensive security officer checklist is designed to weed out fly-by-night security companies, ensuring you receive the service you deserve.
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# Security Officer Checklist: How To Hire A Security Officer Company

### When you devote time and money into a property, it's critical to make sure it is kept safe and secure.

### Protect Your Property With Professional Security Officers

Our checklist is designed to weed out fly-by-night security companies with the ultimate goal to help you make the best security choices. And that should give you one less thing to worry about.

It's important to feel safe with the people hired to keep your property safe. Be sure to ask detailed questions before hiring a security company to make sure you get the best service in the industry. **Research the security company to learn if they:**

- Do background and security tests of employees
- Perform regular drug testing
- Offer employee training and have standards in place of who works for them
- Offer ‘observe and report’ guards—a more practical option for most small businesses and special events, wherein guards are trained to take statements and collect evidence in the case of a crime or accident. Their main job is deterring crime via their presence

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