# Observe and report

A term used when buying security guard.

The floor of what an officer may do, which is what any private person may do.

Post orders describe the job and this prices the tail risk, and the two are often in conflict on one site. An unarmed contract officer holds no police power. California lets a private person arrest for an offense committed or attempted in their presence, or for a felony in fact committed by someone they reasonably suspect, and Ohio reaches felonies alone, though reasonable ground to believe one occurred suffices. Anything above that floor is borrowed from the client: Ohio lets a merchant or its agent detain on probable cause, in a reasonable manner, for a reasonable time, and California adds reasonable nondeadly force. Every one of those words is a defense a jury weighs after the company has already been sued. So a book carrying retail detentions, hospital restraint or venue work has a different loss history from an observe-and-report book at the same revenue, and sellers rarely separate the two. Read the post orders against the client contracts, ask whether the officer is named the client's agent, and count how many incident reports in three years describe hands on a person.

Part of: Buying a Security Guard Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-security-guard-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-security-guard-business/terms/observe-and-report
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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