Casino Security First Edition

The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security: A Handbook of Tools, Strategies, and Training gives casino security professionals the skills and knowledge they need to understand their roles and responsibilities and make quick, correct decisions during casino security-related incidents. Topics include: The tools, equipment, and training that ensure both safety and protection Emergency procedures Response plans Ethics Professionalism The selection and training of casino security professionals Various form samples to serve as guides for working professionals A question-and-answer section at the end of the book will allow leaders of casino security teams to test the knowledge of their personnel to ensure mastery of the content, thus enabling them to function within the standards of the industry and the boundaries of the law. The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security is a complete resource for existing casino security departments.

Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics. Providing proven-techniques for detecting and mitigating the ever-evolving threats to casino security, this book covers the core skills, knowledge, and techniques needed to protect casino assets, guests, and employees. Drawing on the authors’ six decades of combined experience in the industry, Casino Security and Gaming Surveillance identifies the most common threats to casino security and provides specific solutions for addressing these threats. From physical security and security management to table and gaming surveillance, it details numerous best practice techniques, strategies, and tactics, in addition to the metrics required to effectively monitor operations. The authors highlight valuable investigation tools, including interview techniques and evidence gathering. They also cover IOU patrol, tri-shot coverage, surveillance audits, threat analysis, card counting, game protection techniques, players’ club theft and fraud, surveillance standard operating procedures, nightclub and bar security, as well as surveillance training. Complete with a glossary of gaming terms and a resource-rich appendix that includes helpful forms, this book covers everything surveillance and security professionals need to know to avoid high-profile incidents, costly compliance violations and damage to property and revenue. It’s professionals like Al and Derk who personify the professionalism that is crucial when establishing and operating modern casino security and surveillance departments. This book will quickly become the Bible for any security and surveillance officer. —Roger Gros, Publisher, Global Gaming Business Magazine

The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security: A Handbook of Tools, Strategies, and Training gives casino security professionals the skills and knowledge they need to understand their roles and responsibilities and make quick, correct decisions during casino security-related incidents. Topics include: The tools, equipment, and training that ensure both safety and protection Emergency procedures Response plans Ethics Professionalism The selection and training of casino security professionals Various form samples to serve as guides for working professionals A question-and-answer section at the end of the book will allow leaders of casino security teams to test the knowledge of their personnel to ensure mastery of the content, thus enabling them to function within the standards of the industry and the boundaries of the law. The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security is a complete resource for existing casino security departments. Anthony V. DiSalvatore, CPP, PSP, PCI, CFE, CLSD, holds an associate's degree in arts and science from Gloucester County College, a bachelor's degree in law and justice from Glassboro State College, a master's degree in education administration from Seton Hall University and a second master's degree in criminal justice from Rutgers University. He has over thirty years of experience working in security-related positions, and has been involved in the design, implementation, and operation of security at casinos, hotels, and entertainment complexes across the country. Mr. DiSalvatore is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Lodging Security Director (CLSD). He is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) and the Gaming and Wagering Protection Council. He has been recognized by ASIS as a Triple Crown recipient for being certified as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Physical Security Professional (PSP), and Professional Certified Investigator. (PCI).

The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security: A Handbook of Tools, Strategies, and Training gives casino security professionals the skills and knowledge they need to understand their roles and responsibilities and make quick, correct decisions during casino security-related incidents. Topics include: The tools, equipment, and training that ensure both safety and protection Emergency procedures Response plans Ethics Professionalism The selection and training of casino security professionals Various form samples to serve as guides for working professionals A question-and-answer section at the end of the book will allow leaders of casino security teams to test the knowledge of their personnel to ensure mastery of the content, thus enabling them to function within the standards of the industry and the boundaries of the law. The Comprehensive Guide to Casino Security is a complete resource for existing casino security departments.

Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations addresses the continued and growing need for gaming security professionals to properly and successfully investigate the increasing and unique types of crime they will face in their careers. As the gaming industry has grown, so has the need for competent and highly skilled investigators who must be prepared to manage a case of employee theft one day to a sophisticated sports book scam the next. This book provides the reader with the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how each gaming and non-gaming department functions and interacts within the overall gaming resort, allowing the investigator to determine and focus on the important elements of any investigation in any area. Each chapter delivers a background of a department or type of crime normally seen in the gaming environment, and then discusses what should be considered important or even critical for the investigator to know or determine in the course of the investigation. Likely scenarios, case histories, and tips, as well as cautions for investigators to be aware of, are used throughout the book. This book was written for and directed at gaming security and surveillance professionals, including gaming regulators, and tribal gaming authorities, who are almost daily confronted by the ingenious and the most common scams, theft, and frauds that are perpetrated in the gaming world.

Features numerous job profiles in the casino and gaming industry and includes appendixes covering professional organizations, schools, associations, unions, and casinos. Career profiles include blackjack dealer, casino host, concierge, and hotel publicist.

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Disordered Gambling is a complete guide to the current empirical literature relating to the conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of disordered gambling. The international contributors are all experienced, practicing clinicians who discuss gambling within a global context. Best-practice guidelines for the clinical management of problem and disordered gambling Contains empirically derived findings that translate research into practical clinical applications that clinicians and counselors can use in understanding and treating problem gamblers Brings together a distinguished international group of scholars whose contributions discuss gambling as it occurs around the globe Clearly organized into sections that cover conceptualization, research, assessment, treatment, and special topics

This authoritative, user-friendly book offers a complete introduction to the art and science of mental health diagnosis. Meeting a key need for students and novice clinicians, James Morrison, the author of the bestselling DSM-IV Made Easy, systematically takes the reader through every step of the process. He provides clear-cut principles and decision trees for evaluating information from a variety of sources and for constructing a valid working diagnosis that serves as a foundation for treatment. Special features include quick-reference tables, sidebars explaining key concepts, and over 100 case examples that bring the approach to life.