Profession armoured car guard

Armoured car guards ensure the safe transportation of valuable items such as money between locations like stores and banks. They load and unload the vehicle, handle the documentation of the transfer, deliver the items to the correct location and respond quickly to robberies, according to the security protocol in place. They may also handle guns and drive the armoured car.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional
• Realistic / Enterprising

Knowledge

• Security threats

  Types of threats to public and private security such as unauthorised entry, aggressive behaviour, molestation, robbery, theft, assault, kidnapping, murder and public demonstration.

Skills

• Monitor security measures

  Oversee and control the implementation of prevention, security, and surveillance measures in order to assess their effectiveness and to make adjustments in case of unsatisfactory results.

• Manage theft prevention

  Apply theft and robbery prevention; monitor security surveillance equipment; enforce security procedures if needed.

• Manage cash transportation

  Manage the appropriate and safe transportation of cash.

• Load cargo

  Gather goods to be transported and place them in a transportation vehicle.

• Liaise with security authorities

  Respond quickly to security incidents and violations by calling the police and keep in touch with other relevant parties involved in the potential prosecution of the offender.

• Practice vigilance

  Practice vigilance during patrol or other surveillance activities in order to ensure safety and security, to look out for suspicious behaviour or other alarming changes in patterns or activities, and to respond quickly to these changes.

• Manage major incidents

  Take immediate action to respond to major incidents that affect the safety and security of individuals in private or public places such as road accidents.

• Handle delivered packages

  Administer delivered packages and ensure that they all reach their destination in time.

• Ensure regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities

  Meet the rules, policies and laws that govern transportation and distribution activities.

• Unload cargo

  Handle safe unloading of goods from transportation vehicles.

• Provide secured transportation

  Manage secured transportation of cash or other valuable cargo, like securities, jewellery or important individuals.

• Maintain vehicle delivery documentation

  Ensure that vehicle delivery documents are made up accurately and on time.

• Comply with the principles of self-defence

  Observe the principles according to which a person should only use so much force as is required to repel an attack. The use of deadly force is limited to situations where attackers are using deadly force themselves.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB