
Originally Posted by
Jason Baskin
m.stevenson your last comment my friend was that you are not doing anything illegal. Are you sure about that? The website of your company states
“VIP Security offers highly trained and qualified security guards and security dogs in order to stop intruders and trespassers, when the situation calls. .......”
Do you have any idea how and when you can use a security dog?
If your current employer indeed has you highly trained then you should have a good grasp of the QLD criminal code.
Like any other guard, when you are employed to do a job you have no more right than any other citizen. Except that there is a contract between the property owner and the security provider to defend the property within the bounds of the law.
In regards to trespassing Qld Law states.
74.(1) If a person is in peaceable possession of a place, or has the right to
control or manage a place, the person may use reasonable force—
(a) to stop anyone wrongfully entering the place; or
(b) to remove from the place anyone who wrongfully remains in the
place.
74(4) However, force used under subsection (1), (2) or (3) must not be
intended or likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm.
Now when we are talking about grievous bodily harm we are also talking about assault.
The Queensland Act States.
113.(1) A person assaults anyone if, without the other person’s
consent—
(a) the person applies force to the other person; or
(b) the person—
(i) by a bodily act or gesture, attempts or threatens to apply
force to the other person; and
(ii) is able, or appears to be able, to apply the force.
In the video the young man clearly was being detained and even if he was not assaulted physically, it is clear as day that the dog and the guard were being used to intimidate him. At one section in this video the guard told the young chap that he may be held for the police. The hight of the fence is of no significance even if it were 1 meter high, 2 meters or possibly 50 cm high. Clear intimidation was used to detain him.
This could be seen as a criminal act. You might not like it and I certainly do find it frustrating however as professionals we still have to work within the law.
Now where can I send my bill for educating you?