Quality control up to employers, not state

Journal Gazette | 05/30/2007 | Quality control up to employers, not state: "Indiana has few mechanisms in place to check the qualifications of security guards, relying instead on companies that do the hiring to perform background checks – a situation that some fear could put people in positions they’re not qualified to handle in a post-9/11 era.

“Theoretically, we’ve got a system in place to audit these folks and keep an eye on them, but it’s sort of like being audited by the IRS – yeah, it happens, but it’s certainly not something that’s going to make people sleep easy at night that these folks are actually trained and qualified to do what they’re doing,” said William Head, a senior lecturer at Indiana University’s Criminal Justice Department who teaches a private security class."