I need help spending money!! 90K by Dec 31st! Please help.

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Posted: 11/5/2012 10:41:32 AM EDT

Okay, here's the deal. Hospital security program has about 90k to spend by year end. We are out of ideas since we had 400k and got everything we need. I hate budgets that say use it or lose it, it is quite wasteful. So, what else can we get that makes operational sense. Rather than list what we have already gotten, let the brainstorming begin.

While your humerous quips will be appreciated, try to think of some things a well equipped, UNARMED security department in a hospital can use. We will never get firearms, but tazers are a distinct possibility in the future.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:43:16 AM EDT

[#1]

There has to be some sort of convention relative to your industry in the next 2 months...other than that, $90k is a pretty big chunk of change to spend on tasers and rape whistles

Speed

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:43:52 AM EDT

[#2]

Hire more security guards. Preferably some ex-strippers. I don't know what you guys make but you could probably hire 2 or 3 for 90K, right?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:43:55 AM EDT

[#3]

Already got rape whistlers. We have tons of training scheduled.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:43:59 AM EDT

[#4]

Riot Gear?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:44:50 AM EDT

[#5]

Riot shields and batons

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:45:08 AM EDT

[#6]

Imitation crab meat?

New furniture for the office? Computers? Smart phones? A new security vehicle? Hookers and blow?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:45:08 AM EDT

[#7]

Some type of motorized vehicle for indoor use. Electric golf-cart, or.... SEGWAYS!

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:45:23 AM EDT

[#8]

Body lift, helpful when pathology drops a body in the morgue.

ETA: more uniform items for your staff if they have fewer issued than the work shifts in the week.

Assuming you are good on hand held metal detectors?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:46:01 AM EDT

[#9]

The RV from Die Hard.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:46:32 AM EDT

[#10]

Get some tacticool segways, with paintball guns loaded full of penicillin

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:47:36 AM EDT

[#11]

I think you need to hire me as a consultant to review your department. It just so happens my fee in 90k.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:47:42 AM EDT

[#12]

send it to me.

I'll see that you get your moneys worth.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:47:56 AM EDT

[#13]

Buy a years worth of self defense classes for your employees. Some martial art that teaches holds, take-downs, etc.

Unlike other supplies, these will last a life-time.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:48:08 AM EDT

[#14]

How about a nice new M3 or Corvette to patrol in?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:48:22 AM EDT

[#15]

Impact raises for everybody in the department? Not spend the money and allow it to return to the organizations general fund, so that the organization can use it for something that is actually needed by another department?

I remember seeing this happen every year in the military, and it made me sick, they would spend money foolishly at the end of the year, so that they would have even more money to spend foolishly at the end of the next year. I have seen it in the civilian world, and I didn't find it any more tasteful there.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:48:23 AM EDT

[#16]

Could get a Red-man suit, floor workout pads, and various MMA training pads for your crew to practice self defense with.

The red-man suits make it nice so you can practice striking an individual using non-lethal force as well. Just set up a scenario and let your guys work it out.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:48:36 AM EDT

[#17]

The upgraded PTZ security cameras, DVR system, and environmental monitoring sensors at my company were about ninety grand.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:49:29 AM EDT

[#18]

Cameras, sensors, locks, better entrance doors, sidewalk decorative car barriers, etc.

Or just man up and save the $.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:49:45 AM EDT

[#19]

I have been trying the Segway angle, but so many people are against them. I have promoted Segway for years, but there is such a negative perception and too many bad images of them in the media. (See Paul Blart)

A few issues with Segways is what to do if a single officer has to bail and foot pursue, leaving a 120lb Segway behind on a dark trail in a bad part of town. Returns to find 5000k Segway has walked off. Not the best outcome.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:50:18 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Could get a Red-man suit, floor workout pads, and various MMA training pads for your crew to practice self defense with.

The red-man suits make it nice so you can practice striking an individual using non-lethal force as well. Just set up a scenario and let your guys work it out.

We have purchased two red man suits and all the weapon accessories you can think of.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:50:40 AM EDT

[#21]

Mobile trauma unit?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:50:56 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
The upgraded PTZ security cameras, DVR system, and environmental monitoring sensors at my company were about ninety grand.

Cameras and such are a completely different budgetary item. We are spending lots on them too, just a different line item on the budget.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:50:57 AM EDT

[#23]

send your guys to training events.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:51:36 AM EDT

[#24]

Big assed gun safes for every patient's room to store medicine in, so the Dr doesn't have to go far. Should keep things nice and secure.

Weapons Training. Send the staff to Gunsite for a week for their basic handgun and basic carbine course.

Bulk purchase range time at the local ranges for the staff to train with their weapons.

MMA courses for everybody.

Spy cams everywhere.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:51:46 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Impact raises for everybody in the department? Not spend the money and allow it to return to the organizations general fund, so that the organization can use it for something that is actually needed by another department?

I remember seeing this happen every year in the military, and it made me sick, they would spend money foolishly at the end of the year, so that they would have even more money to spend foolishly at the end of the next year. I have seen it in the civilian world, and I didn't find it any more tasteful there.

I totally agree, if it were up to me I would let it go back to the fund, but then our budget is less next year.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:52:14 AM EDT

[#26]

Night Vision/thermal

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:52:24 AM EDT

[#27]

UAVs

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:52:35 AM EDT

[#28]

Hookers and blow?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:54:33 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Already got rape whistlers. We have tons of training scheduled.

I didn't say "training", I said convention.

It's the greatest tax deduction ever

Many are held in Las vegas...

...I just looked it up. There is one in Amsterdam later this month as well as one in Dubai in December

Speed

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:54:55 AM EDT

[#30]

Vending machines that dispense condoms with a penicillin lubricant, then hire some hookers to do field testing...

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:55:38 AM EDT

[#31]

So let your budget be less next year, what's the fucking problem? What do you need next year that you can't get this year?

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:56:15 AM EDT

[#32]

Is your Radio equipment in need of an update? Pretty easy to dump thousands of dollars down that hole if needed.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:58:04 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Is your Radio equipment in need of an update? Pretty easy to dump thousands of dollars down that hole if needed.

Radios are handled by the Safety department and they are brand new.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:58:32 AM EDT

[#34]

you need to prepare for the coming zombie outbreak.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:58:43 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Night Vision/thermal

I like this.

Bring up the example of the Manhattan hospital that lost BOTH of its backup generators. A few sets of night vision for supervisors might not be a bad idea, and that will eat up the budget in a hurry.

Posted: 11/5/2012 10:58:49 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
So let your budget be less next year, what's the fucking problem? What do you need next year that you can't get this year?

Who knows what we will need next year, that's the problem.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:00:50 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Okay, here's the deal. Hospital security program has about 90k to spend by year end. We are out of ideas since we had 400k and got everything we need. I hate budgets that say use it or lose it, it is quite wasteful. So, what else can we get that makes operational sense. Rather than list what we have already gotten, let the brainstorming begin.

While your humerous quips will be appreciated, try to think of some things a well equipped, UNARMED security department in a hospital can use. We will never get firearms, but tazers are a distinct possibility in the future.

WWRSD?

What Would Ron Swanson Do?

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:00:51 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

I have been trying the Segway angle, but so many people are against them. I have promoted Segway for years, but there is such a negative perception and too many bad images of them in the media. (See Paul Blart)

A few issues with Segways is what to do if a single officer has to bail and foot pursue, leaving a 120lb Segway behind on a dark trail in a bad part of town. Returns to find 5000k Segway has walked off. Not the best outcome.

You don't have guns, but anticipate foot pursuits? I suggest paying that guy his consulting fee.....

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:02:10 AM EDT

[#39]

Anticipate foot pursuit? They happen all the time. Unarmed security often does things like that, without the weapons the police have.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:03:17 AM EDT

[#40]

Tasers, seriously especially if your hospital has a psyc ward.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:03:29 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Hire more security guards. Preferably some ex-strippers. I don't know what you guys make but you could probably hire 2 or 3 for 90K, right?

This is what I was thinking.

Op, maybe more or better cameras, Surefire lights, Flak suits since you can't shoot back, gym to keep you less spare tire looking, scary looking sticks, maybe a net that comes out of the floor to leave the bad guy hanging.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:04:00 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Buy a years worth of self defense classes for your employees. Some martial art that teaches holds, take-downs, etc.

Unlike other supplies, these will last a life-time.

Quoted:
The upgraded PTZ security cameras, DVR system, and environmental monitoring sensors at my company were about ninety grand.

Having worked in hospital security for the last 5 years, both of those are EXCELLENT ideas. My hospital is in a high crime area located on the Wisconsin Illinois border, about an hour west of Chicago. Are you the security manager? I could use a new job, and would like to leave IL.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:04:05 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
So let your budget be less next year, what's the fucking problem? What do you need next year that you can't get this year?

Who knows what we will need next year, that's the problem.

Anything needed to make the job a little more bearable? I know, everyone says they love their job, but are any desks in need of repair? Sally need a new chair or three?

Order all of next years supplies and stockpile?

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:04:39 AM EDT

[#44]

ASP's ? Training in more hand to hand confrontations. Even more importantly, training in good ol' Verbal Judo. That should eat up most of your budget.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:06:26 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
you need to prepare for the coming zombie outbreak.

This is what I was thinking. Rick got lucky because that hospital wasn't prepared.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:06:58 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Okay, here's the deal. Hospital security program has about 90k to spend by year end. We are out of ideas since we had 400k and got everything we need. I hate budgets that say use it or lose it, it is quite wasteful. So, what else can we get that makes operational sense. Rather than list what we have already gotten, let the brainstorming begin.

While your humerous quips will be appreciated, try to think of some things a well equipped, UNARMED security department in a hospital can use. We will never get firearms, but tazers are a distinct possibility in the future.

Fuck you.

Don't piss on my back and tell me it's not raining.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:09:55 AM EDT

[#47]

Geritol??

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:11:32 AM EDT

[#48]

Survivor Truck

Fox news link

Can't post pic... two - - turns to –– so just a red x

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:12:07 AM EDT

[#49]

Get those ear pieces for the radios, where other people can't hear what's going on. Maybe update the vehicle equipment, add more lights, etc. Make sure you have plenty of uniforms and duty gear in inventory and available.

Posted: 11/5/2012 11:12:24 AM EDT

[#50]

Local hospital security guys look like shit. Spend money on better quality uniforms and gym memberships. Radio equipment. NBC gear and training for just in case. Maybe a vehicle for patrols?

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