page_title: Security guard
section_title: Hong Kong
hierarchical_section_title: Security guard / Training / Hong Kong
caption_attribution_description: English: Security post at the entrance to a block of Whampoa Garden, Kowloon, Hong Kong.中文（香港）‎: 黃埔花園保安
context_page_description: A security guard is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets from a variety of hazards by enforcing preventative measures. Security guards do this by maintaining a high-visibility presence to deter illegal and inappropriate actions, looking for signs of crime or other hazards, taking action to minimize damage, and reporting any incidents to their clients and emergency services, as appropriate.
  Security officers are generally uniformed to represent their lawful authority to protect private property. Security guards are generally governed by legal regulations, which set out the requirements for eligibility and the permitted authorities of a security guard in a given jurisdiction. The authorities permitted to security guards vary by country and subnational jurisdiction. Security officers are hired by a range of organizations, including businesses, government departments and agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
  Until the 1980s, the term watchman was more commonly applied to this function, a usage dating back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe where there was no form of law enforcement.
context_section_description: In Hong Kong, the term Security Officer refers to a senior staff member who supervises a team of security personnel. The staff who work under security officers' supervision are called
  Security Guards.
caption: Watchman on duty at a residential block in Hong Kong.
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