Jared Malec our PM’s have a free unit. Our courtesy officer is actually extremely valuable at this site helping us enforce social distancing to
keep pools open, taking phone calls overnight and doing patrols
At my last company we fired ours because he would just take pictures from his apartment and never walked around or stopped anything from happening. There were always naked people in the hot tub after quiet hours????????♀️
Our company has two properties within a mile of each other and the courtesy officer gets a 50% off discount. If he only did one property it would only be 20% which is the same as the employee discount.
I know I have heard of this in the past but I have not seen this anywhere in California where a security officer lives on site where he works. It's actually against our company policy. This protects us from people following the security officer home on site as well as for the officer to not be fair or unfair with residents or friends. How are you company's able to call them security or courtesy patrol officers if they don't have license or security company to back said officer, just curious ...again, not negative, just curious...
4 years 4 months ago#39744by William Anthony Estela
William Anthony Estela This typically refers to a law enforcement officer (local PD, State Trooper, etc) that lives on site and receives compensation for direct access. Different from a hired security patrol.
Adam Wilkins thanks for clarifying- makes sense.
I think its a great idea to have a substation for local enforcement to come grab coffee, snacks, work on reports. But I guess I'm still curious how it is with them trying to enforce at the same place they live, conflict of interest.
4 years 4 months ago#39747by William Anthony Estela
William Anthony Estela I never had any conflict with mine. He is an officer of the law and commanded respect. Anything that needed or called for back up they were there in a minute.
If differ between properties with need and work load. Some pass out resident notices, night logged property walks and light checks, and takes after hour calls, and some just take calls
Higher a company - more accountable and you know they patrolling. You can cancel them if you don’t like the service and it’s much easier then asking someone to move out when they aren’t doing their job.
Hire a company. Most departments can't enforce house rules (pool hours, amount of guests in club room, etc) where as a private company can. Private can still call 911 if PD is needed. Everytime I had a courtesy officer they would promise the earth and moon at move in, and would be pulling teeth to get a report.