Protecting the Nation
Paul Vries, a Northern Territory Patrol Officer, has been patrolling the streets of Darwin City for Southern Cross Protection since 2007.
Paul works night shifts and patrols nine kilometres of Darwin streets. Between the hours of 4:30pm and 4:30am you’ll find Paul checking the premises of 30-40 sites across the three streets under his watch. Government sites and buildings are on Paul’s nightly route, which includes external and internal checks of premises.
He conducts up to 120 site visits per night and has encountered a host of unusual disturbances on his rounds, ranging from minor disturbances and annoyances to serious large-scale security breaches. A true storyteller, Paul loves to tell of the times he has been mistaken for a taxi driver by late night revellers, has had to jostle along loiterers from dark car parks and on a more much more serious note the break-ins he has prevented.
Perhaps surprisingly, Paul has found his greatest and most effective skill used on the job is negotiating. This skill was heroically put to use on the night he prevented a desperate person from jumping eight stories, when Paul calmly spoke to the person, keeping them from the edge with his words for twenty minutes until help arrived.
For his bravery, Paul was awarded a certificate of appreciation by the Police Commissioner and enjoyed a personal thank you lunch with the Lord Mayor.
As Paul could tell you, working as a mobile guard often involves much more than checking the locks. They constantly go above and beyond the call of duty, protecting not only the premises under their watch but the safety and wellbeing of those they encounter on their rounds.
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Southern Cross Protection is providing the full range of security services to Onesteel Recycling NSW branches, following being awarded the contract in November 2009. Onesteel is one of Australia’s largest integrated global steel and finished steel metal manufacturing and distribution organisations, operating across Australia, in the Asia Pacific and the United States. Southern Cross Protection’s end to end security service solution and implementation to Onesteel includes: Full security and risk assessments; Physical guarding at nominated sites and security patrol services at the other sites, depending on each site profile; Provision and maintenance of tailored electronic security surveillance and alarm systems; After hours Alarm System Monitoring with a National Operations Centre and a national monitoring centre; Armed hold up, certificate credited training for key nominated staff, providing practical industry best practice approach to direct security situations. Southern Cross understands that each client may have differing requirements and works within the clients’ structure and their desired outcomes. For Onesteel Recycling and their nine NSW branches, we have provided improved security and management outcomes, while delivering greater efficiency and cost savings. Southern Cross has managed all transitioning to the new security operations. read more
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