WDW Security Positions?

[Warren W]

Ok so we all know and see the Security Guards that walk around the parks but let's be honest, some of those don't exactly make me feel too safe. What I was wondering is what other security does Disney have? I'm sure they have to have people watching cameras right? Also maybe security in plain clothes walking around the parks like guests? Do they have people focused on preventing bigger problems rather then just preventing candy bars being stolen?

Basically is security a big thing to Disney or is it just what you see in the parks is what you get?

 

[kaligal]

I know they have them in the shops. I was once being watched/followed so closely that I couldn't concentrate on browsing and had to leave. They may have thought they chased off a thief, but they just chased off a customer.

 

[scoolover]

I don't have an answer but there was a little girl at a parade one night and she lost her mom. She yelled and within a few seconds there were two people who appeared out on no where.

Also, don't be too quick to judge those people you refer too. Many are retired law enforcement and military. They will show up when it's time to show up!

 

[larryz]

We could tell you, but then...

 

[Maggie'sMom]

There was a long thread on this that I still see pop up from time to time. Long story short is that there are a multitude of cameras and security people, many in plain clothes, all over the parks. Disney takes security very seriously and has a number of measures in place to ensure the safety of its guests.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

What you see in the uniformed Security Hosts is just the tip of the iceberg and a very small portion of Disney's Security.

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

I know that before you ever get to the bag check at each park, you have likely been surveiled multiple times by plain clothes operators who blend in remarkably well (they really look like tourists and have the smallest ear pieces imaginable, which is the only "clue" besides the fact that they are usually casually loitering, as if waiting for somebody). My wife and I make a game of trying to pick them out, and while I'm sure we don't even notice half of them, but we still see at least two or three between the parking lot/bus areas and the bag check every time. They are also all over inside the parks, as well, although at that point we're usually not interested in looking for them.

Likewise, cameras are EVERYWHERE in the parks, and people are watching them.

Security is very tight at WDW; you just never know its there until either you need it, or they need to stop you.

 

[ladypage]

I assure you, there is a lot more to Disney security that what's up front and in plain sight.

 

[RalphinSC]

Security should be ample and quick to respond to any problems. I'm sure if anything arises OP you should have someone there withing a few seconds.......



Unless you are an older belligerent drunk guy in front of the Tower of Terror at California Adventure. Then you can raise a big ruckus and fight with an out matched security guard for several minutes until help arrives, all while being filmed on youtube.

I really like to believe the security is omnipotent and ever-present. That incident though made me wonder a bit. Of course that's very likely the exception instead of the rule.

http://pufftuffslidestuff.blogspot.com/2012/02/disney-tower-of-terror-fight-original.html

 

[Lzylitnin]

I slipped on a wet floor that had just been mopped at the Main Street Bakery. I was unhurt and able to catch myself on a table before hitting the floor. Security was there within 20 seconds. Literally. You wouldn't have known they were security. The woman was wearing a visor and the man had a belly bag. They both looked like your typical WDW tourist. They first made sure I was OK and then chastised the cast member that was mopping and put out 'wet floor' warning signs.

 

[LSUfan4444]

I once read somewhere that WDW has some very highly trained security personel on staff. Call it a SWAT team of sorts. At any time, there could be hundreds of celebrities and dignitaries from around the world on grounds. In a kidnappig for ransom situation (especially for children of foreign visitors), they wanted to be prepared to keep things under control until the FBI can resume control.

Again, take it for what it's worth and I can't even remember where I read it. As far as video surveilance, I believe even the undeveloped parts are under surveilance.

 

[chartle]

I once read somewhere that WDW has some very highly trained security personel on staff. Call it a SWAT team of sorts. At any time, there could be hundreds of celebrities and dignitaries from around the world on grounds. In a kidnappig for ransom situation (especially for children of foreign visitors), they wanted to be prepared to keep things under control until the FBI can resume control.

Again, take it for what it's worth and I can't even remember where I read it. As far as video surveilance, I believe even the undeveloped parts are under surveilance.

Disney supposedly does not have any security on staff that is armed.

Now the Sheriff's office does have a office on site and of course they are armed.

Also I doubt its of hundreds of celebrities and dignitaries at any one time but I'm sure arrangements are made on a case by case basis.

 

[chartle]

Most people call things like the Bag Check Security Theater. I would call it Security Illusion and by Illusion I don't mean it isn't there.

Illusions usually work by using misdirection. While Barney Fife (I'm using that as a term of endearment not as a put down) is chatting you up, searching your bags and asking to have some of your snacks, there are multiple people watching from all angles. From cameras to the "Dad" in the Goofy hat looking for his "family".

In fact a Goofy hat would be perfect to hide the earpiece.

 

[TowMater92]

One trip I was talking to 3 security guards with my sis and BIL while looking at the X-mas lights on NY street in DHS. They were very nice but all retired. We were talking about stuff that happens in the parks and they were saying it was usually small stuff, arguments, small thefts, lost kids etc. Thats when I asked them what they would really do if me or my BIL(both in our 20's about 6'2" 220+lbs) did something in the park? They all looked at each other then they laughed and said get out of your way and call on the radio. Then one of them said they don't get paid enough to get ran over by a truck wait did they just call me a truck

 

[dmband]

I know the bag check is a joke as far as security goes
Half the time they don't even look in all your bags or down inside them

 

[TheRustyScupper]

What you see in the uniformed Security Hosts is just the tip of the iceberg and a very small portion of Disney's Security.

1) Yep.
2) You see less than 1/2 the security (from what we are told)
3) And you see A LOT, if you include
. . . traffic direction
. . . resort guard shacks 24/7
. . . bag-check guards at all the parks
. . . walking-around guards in parks/DTD
. . . driving streets and resorts in cars/vans/golfcarts
. . . park and DTD parking lot rovers
4) Security is serious biz at WDW.

 

[aubriee]

On one of the backstage tours I went on one of the questions that came up was about security. The tour guide had started out in the college program and then gotten a regular full time job at Disney, so had been there many years. He laughed and said security was one of the main priorities for Disney and there were plain clothes security every where, not just in the stores. He said the goofiest looking tourist was probably an off duty Orange Sheriff County police officer working security for Disney. He said you never notice them until they're needed, then they seem to come out of the woodwork. He also said the ones in uniform that you notice are just the tip of the iceberg and are there as a visible presence for tourists, but it's the plain clothes ones that are more numerous.

 

[DisneyDee27]

And I'm looking forward to working for Disney when I retire.
I'm sure that the security guys/girls we see are the tip of the iceberg. I'd like to work UC when I get hired.
Dee

 

[Lisa x]

http://pufftuffslidestuff.blogspot.com/2012/02/disney-tower-of-terror-fight-original.html[/URL]

Wow.......just wow! I feel for the children that would have seen this, disgusting behaviour

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

I cannot beleive they are still draging up this video of ONE Isolated inccident and some laughing about it....and at the same time trying to say that its a honest example of security.


Lets look at another..........I canit find the video that was being passed around the internet......but how about at the MK,that child abuser that THREW his baby at a bus driver.........and the excellent way the driver restrainted the criminal.......a supervisor was there in a very few minutes and secuirty officers(both in uniform and plain clothes) were there in a few minutes later and the criminal and his wife( who was hiding in the crowd becuse she was afriad of her husband) and child, were led away.

AKK