L&P Global Security
Our Hiring Standards
Officer Qualifications
L&P Global Security performs a multi-faceted and systematic selection process to filter potential applicants. Our procedures provide comprehensive oversight and quality control through processes of recruiting, vetting, and selecting qualified security applicants from a local pool of candidates.
L&P Global Security provides security personnel who meet the following minimum qualifications. Also, each applicant must undergo, and pass suitability and background investigation requirements as determined by the State of Texas.
Each candidate shall:
- Be a citizen of the United States of America.
- Be at least 21 years of age. While there is no maximum age limit for L&P Global Security officer positions, all applicants shall be able to withstand the job’s physical demands and be capable of responding to emergencies.
- Be a high school graduate or have a General Educational Development (GED) or equivalency.
- Be able to read, write, and speak the English language fluently.
- Possess a valid, unrestricted (except eyeglass wear) state driver’s license.
- Ensure everyone designated to perform as a commissioned security officer has completed or graduated from a certified security training academy licensed by the State of Texas.
- Understand, explain, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, directives, and procedures.
- Possess self-confidence, poise, and the ability to make sound decisions and react quickly under stressful conditions.
- Possess the ability to prepare clear and concise reports.
- Possess the ability to learn and adapt to changing situations.
- Possess the ability to accept and respond to instruction and direction.
- Be free from conviction of any felony.
- Be free from conviction of any misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
The term “convicted” is generally defined in the statute as excluding any person whose conviction has been expunged, set aside, or pardoned.
Hiring of Officers
Our security officers assigned to your communities will be licensed and/or commissioned by the Texas Department of Public Safety. All potential new hires will have an in-depth, pre-employment background investigation conducted to determine each candidate’s character and degree of personal integrity. All applicants will be required to submit to fingerprinting and be cleared by a thorough criminal conviction records search done by the State of Texas and the FBI. All officers selected to work at your communities will be physically fit and presentable.
An operations manager is assigned and will assist in taking interviews for prospective employees. He will also supervise the background and reference checks on new hires. He will then conduct a pre-startup orientation for all L&P Global Security personnel who work in your communities.
Items to be covered will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Employment application with company rules and regulations.
- Company and client dress code requirements.
- OSHA, EEOC, Wage/hour, and Employment Commission rules, guidelines, and laws.
- Pay, timekeeping, payroll records, and related information.
- Employee benefits.
- Discipline and employee rights.
- Training and Continuing Education in the Security Industry.
Our Vetting Requirements
L&P Global Security takes all necessary steps to ensure that all individuals serving under the contract are reliable, reputable, and have satisfied all training and experience requirements. We conduct a preliminary background check on all our security officer applicants and other company personnel working for our clients. At a minimum, L&P Global Security employs methods to independently verify and ensure that prospective applicants meet or exceed the minimum state requirements set forth by the State of Texas.