President Mark Miller addresses attendees at 2007 LEAPS Conference

On Thursday, September 20, CALSAGA President Mark Miller addressed members of private security industry and local law enforcement on the important role the private security industry plays in California, as part of the 8th Annual Law Enforcement and Private Security Conference (LEAPS). 

LEAPS is a partnership between law enforcement and private security to make the city of Los Angeles safer.  The theme of this year's conference was, "Public and Private Partnership in the Prevention of Terrorism."  Much of the discussion centered around the responsibilities of law enforcement and the private sector in the prevention of terrorism.

Miller gave nearly 400 attendees an overview of CALSAGA and explained how California leads the way in training and background checking of its security officers and how CALSAGA continues to look for ways to further professionalize the industry.  Additionally, Miller thanked the Los Angeles Police Department and the Oxnard Police Department for their recent effort to crack down on unlicensed activity in the private security industry.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addressed the audience and applauded local law enforcement agencies and the private security industry for banding together to fight and prevent terrorism and for increasing response capabilities in the event of a future terrorist attack. 

CALSAGA was proud to be a gold sponsor of the conference and staffed a booth to provide attendees more information on our Association, the private security industry and information on membership and much more!  All said, it was a successful conference and CALSAGA was well represented.