Our Core Values
Safety 1st
American Security is dedicated to ensuring that our clients and our associates are provided a safe, secure and healthy work environment. This is what we do.
We will follow our Safety 1st process to increase safety awareness, eliminate unsafe acts and conditions and maintain a constant Safety 1st attitude in order to create an environment where zero accidents and zero injuries is the norm.
Professionalism
Always striving toward excellence. Excellence that reflects positively on us as individuals, our team, our company, our clients and our profession.
Achieving this through high visibility, educated decisions under the codified body of knowledge, continuous training, adaptability to change and ethical conduct.
Vigilance
We are obligated to maintain Eternal Vigilance.
To accomplish this we will observe, report, document and act upon anything that falls within the scope of our assigned duties and training. We can and will manage any situation through training, education and experience to insure the safety and security of our Team, Clients and Costumers.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to provide services that fully satisfy customer needs while offering excellent value and responsive service, enabling growth and financial soundness through a safe, secure and healthy work environment.
To accomplish this mission, we believe:
Through our safety 1st environment, customer satisfaction is our first responsibility. To provide value to the customers we serve, we are committed to quality, vigilance and integrity in everything we do.
As business associates, we treat each other fairly, with trust and respect in a professional environment that fosters safe work practices, involvement, open communication and teamwork.
Rewards will reflect contribution to the enterprise. We must continually promote safety, adapt and renew our business, reward innovation, and encourage change.
Excellence Throughout, By Commitment From Within.
Stability: American Security & Investigations is in its 49th year of providing security solutions and professional security services to the corporate community;
Corporate Citizenship: American Security & Investigations believes that a healthy corporate climate, and the sustained growth of the corporate community, is a key element to quality of life for all citizens living in the community at large. To this end, American Security & Investigations supports a variety of civic and charitable organizations;
Community Ties: We are locally managed. Our management team and officer corps are long-term residents of the communities that we serve;
Operations Strength: American Security & Investigations employs in excess of 1,500 professionals engaged in security and security related services. The Uniformed Security Officer Division consistently schedules and provides more than 26,000 service hours per week. We have clients with service needs in excess of 2,000 hours per week and as few as 20 hours per week. Key elements of American Security & Investigations’s overall operations strength are: (a) excellent knowledge of and long-term experience in a wide range of facility security operations, (b) one of the largest pools of experienced security officer staff, and (c) professional management team members with long-term experience in the security industry. We are proud of the fact that we are able to provide our clients with the right security officer(s) with the best training for virtually any situation;
Respect for Employees: In every phase of its operations, American Security & Investigations treats its most important resource - its people - fairly and with respect. Each employee is afforded the opportunity to succeed personally and professionally and thus be an asset to the community at large. No other company has the stated corporate commitment to the growth and development of this precious resource.
Fiscal Responsibility: American Security & Investigations is fiscally sound and prudent. We utilize sound business practices in all phases of our operations;
Industry Leader in Training & Education: American Security & Investigations' Training Department is second to none in the industry. The training standards developed and in use for years by our training department, meet, and in most cases exceed any statutory requirements for companies providing professional security services. American Security & Investigations' Training curriculum is recognized as one of the most extensive and progressive in the security industry;
Strong Corporate Infrastructure: American Security & Investigations' Corporate Infrastructure is the most extensive in the security industry, and is the keystone to consistently excellent service. Corporate infrastructure is comprised of 9 Departments, all providing either direct or indirect support to the client’s site security operations and the assigned security officer staff;
Professional: Professionals staff each of American Security & Investigations' corporate departments. The personnel who staff each department, (Human Resource Services, Training, Procedures, Field Operations, Command/Dispatch Center, Finance, Corporate Information Systems, Sales/Marketing, and Fleet Services), all have significant tenure within the security industry, in almost all cases greater than 15 years per person. Each staff professional has the education and training required for peak job performance. All department heads, and almost all departmental staff have post-graduate degrees and/or professional certifications within their fields;
Care of its Employees: American Security & Investigations provides its officers with one of the best pay and benefits packages available in the industry today, along with incentives to choose a career in the security industry. Care of employees is one reason that we have one of the industry’s lowest employee turnover rates;
Full Service – More than a slogan: American Security & Investigations is a full service provider. In addition to regularly scheduled uniformed security officer services, our services include: special event service, mobile patrol service, investigative services, covert security, security consulting services, threat management, risk assessments, executive protection/executive services, security during workplace disruption, and other security related services customized for our client's needs;
Corporate Management’s Commitment to Operations success: No other company has a stronger commitment to re-investing in its infrastructure. This commitment means that our clients will always interact with true security professionals who are firmly committed to providing our clients with the best services available in the industry. Corporate Management’s firm commitment to quality professional service is significant to our client retention rate, which is one of the best in the security services industry;
Value: American Security & Investigations provides the greatest VALUE for your facility security service expenditures. No one else in the security industry provides you with the quality of personnel, the amount and quality of employee training concurrent with quantity and quality of professional support for the site security officer staff and the operations management staff.