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In
addition to all the training and experience required for unarmed
security guard services, armed guards must also be trained in the use of
firearms and licensed to carry a weapon. Perhaps equally
important, armed guards must have a calm temperament and a complete
understanding of the conditions that prevail in the environment they
will be working in.

Under most circumstances, armed security
guards are only employed where items of substantial value must be
protected. This includes cash, jewelry, antiques, works-of-art, valuable
documents, rare books or important people.
They do more than just guard. Armed security guard services also include
escorting funds to banks and other financial institutions, escorting
cash and other valuables from one place to another within a facility
such as a Casino, and physically ascertaining that protective systems
such as safes and alarm systems are active. Armed guards are not
ordinarily employed in public retail areas because experience has shown
that unarmed guards are generally a sufficient crime deterrent in large
department stores malls and sports venues.

Armed security officers are rarely
called upon to use lethal force, but can do so if the situation requires
it or for self protection from an armed adversary.