In the operations of the current security industry, attempts to maximize profits have replaced ethical priorities. Instead of seeking security personnel who exemplify high standards of performance, the industry leadership has sought the lowest standard of performance in order to undercut competitors with similarly low standards, creating a downward race toward supposedly acceptable minimum. In the author's experience, the downward race has fallen significantly below an acceptable level, and the result is a web of unethical behavior from industry leadership which seeks to conceal performance failures.In typical security operations, the requirement for a high quality written report in the aftermath of an emergency is presented to personnel which have received little or no training in writing reports. Current industry leadership does not hold personnel accountable to write high quality reports, and allows persons to continue in positions of responsibility even after proven inability to meet acceptable levels of performance in report writing. In a security operation which is lead in an ethical manner, the performance standard for written reports in emergency events will be built on a foundation of proven competence in writing routine reports. The acceptable standard for reports is clarity, accuracy, and completeness. When any type of emergency event occurs, and a high quality report is required, writing the report should be something the person has done before and does regularly. To remove this foundation, and to lower the expectations for routine reports, it to prepare personnel for failure.It is the mission of Sixth Training Group to present an alternative to the ethical failures of the current security industry. To that end, the author has prepared a suite of standardized report forms, along with a standardized method of entering information, with many example entries included which may illustrate best practices for written reporting across a wide range of routine and emergency events. These report forms are designed for use with the standardized training requirements published by Sixth Training Group. A companion handbook is available which contains the example entries, and has an additional section devoted to reporting on incidents involving use of force.If personnel leading security operations implement a standardized reporting system, and enforce standardized performance through challenging and relevant training, it will be possible to conduct operations at a high level of consistency.During training, all simulations and field exercises should have a reporting requirement after the debriefing. Leaders should be on hand to provide guidance during the written reporting phase. The reporting system used during training, should be fully standardized with the system used during actual operations.During actual operations, all personnel must be held to high performance standards for report writing, in order to provide all personnel with correct examples of reports during operations, which will reinforce the skills learned during training and provide a foundation for continuing high performance.
