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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 4:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Superguy
RG, I expected better of you. As an engineer, I would have expected you to account for vacations, sleep time, off time, etc. 1 PSO just wouldn't be enough. Because if a PSO had to sleep, go to the doctor or vacation, you could do something that they wouldn't be able to stop. So you'd have to have a minimum of 4 if they're pulling 12's but realistically looking like 5-6 minimum.

That number might be able to reduce to have "group" officer for people traveling or working together, but let's be realistic - it would be a jobs program so it'd have to employ as many people as possible. So we'd probably have shorter shifts with more screeners, so we'd be looking more like 10% of "free" people with 90% being dedicated to security.

Ssshh. That's stage 2. It hasn't been announced yet.

Originally Posted by Caradoc
You've failed to account for the PSOs to watch the PSOs.
As above, the PSOs have all had background checks, and therefore never EVER steal from people or beat them up or...

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