Patent ID: 8659431

Claim:
A method of monitoring security personnel in a building facility, the method comprising: storing a plurality of information records associated with each of the security personnel in a database, the information records identifying the security personnel as a plurality of security guards, each having a unique user identification, a work schedule of times each security personnel individual is scheduled to be working as a security guard at the building facility, and a plurality of security personnel credentials that have a finite certification period; receiving at least one user identification input data via a security access terminal and authenticating the at least one user identification input data as a known security personnel individual based on a pre-stored record associated with that particular security personnel individual in the database before allowing the security personnel individual to receive access to the building facility; identifying at least one of the plurality of security personnel currently scheduled to be working as a security supervisor and designating the security supervisor as a recipient of security violations and urgent messages; compiling, via a processor, a list of the plurality of information records on a daily basis that are in violation of one or more of the plurality of security personnel credentials used to determine whether the security personnel are in compliance with security procedures, the compiling operation comprising identifying each of the plurality security personnel credentials for each of the security personnel that are currently scheduled to be working that particular day and identifying at least one security personnel credential of at least one of the security personnel that is at least one of expiring and near a predetermined time period of expiring, and which is in violation of the security procedures; and automatically notifying the security supervisor of the building facility, by identifying the security supervisor from the database as the recipient of the security violations and urgent messages, of the at least one of security personnel currently scheduled to work as the security guard at the building facility that particular day and that is in violation of the security procedures due to the at least one security personnel credential violation by sending a message to the security supervisor via at least one of a call to the supervisor's mobile station, a text message to the supervisor's mobile station, and an e-mail message to the supervisor's mobile station, and wherein the credential violation comprises at least one of an expiring weapons certification renewal date, mase combat training renewal date, first aid renewal date, security training renewal date, a total number of hours worked being exceeded a predetermined hour violation criteria, and handcuff training renewal date.