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After conditions at Burns Security kept sliding down hill how they treated people I looked around for a new security company to work for that when a saw an add in the Pittsburgh Press for West Coast Security Company opening a branch in Pittsburgh .
CPP Security was a division of California Plant Protection out of Van Nuys California .
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-17-fi-11813-story.html
I went to there offices above the store fronts in Dormont Shoppes and meet with a man named Maurice Dispennett who headed the branch. This sounded new and existing as we where being hired as Security officers with better uniforms and pay etc. There where initially 6 of us and our first contract was at Affordable Furniture Manufacturing on Lebanon Church RD. In West Mifflin
Had I known what a liar MauriceDispennett was I would have never joined CPP but I gave him a chance
We where told by Maurice since we where the first ones hired we would all become supervisors some where down the line a total and complete bold face lie non of us did all the other quit out of disgust and I was the last original guard to leave.
Affordable furniture was located in the Old Continental Can Company which moved to Mifflin Rd. and eventually went out of business they made all kind of cans for food and paint etc.
one half of the plant was Affordable furniture the other a storage warehouse for stuff left over from government coal to gas conversion and other projects.
The plant had CPP Security Officers but ADT had an silent alarm to protect the accountants office .
They tried going all alarms and eliminate the guards but after several break ins one successful where alarms did not work they went to the combo. The plant was fully sprinklered because they manufactured do it your self furniture from particle board the forerunner of the IKEA concept.
The plant would suffer couple strikes and eventually be bought out by Jove Machine & manufacturing another bold face liar as well Mr. Jove .
The plant then became Ductmate corp who made specialized duct work and when they closed it was torn down and is now a Target Store.
Affordable Furniture was a neat place we walked around once every hour.
inside and out the front and side double doors never locked properly so I had lock and chain I used on them to keep some one from coming in unexpectedly while patrolling the plant inside or out it was a big plant and took 30 minutes to cover. They never ever got those doors to lock correctly .
The machinery was all lined up in rows and did different functions and they did keep floors and aisle clean but that was about it. The plant was old and falling apart.Between rounds we sat in supervisors office where the only phone worked. I was there about 6 months in all and several times while out walking the perimeter of the plant have to run and use the phone because of accidents which happened down on Lebanon church road. One so severe 6 vehicles where involved and spread over a 1/4 mile.
While working this site I received almost a dozen commendations for actions for detecting and preventing problems. One time while walking the plant I discovered a large propane tank leaking over on the storage time another a group of teens stealing 2 inch thick by 10 foot long copper bars from what I thought was the Union railroad which served the plant. The west Mifflin cops caught them and it ends up these where employees kids hired to cut the grass at the next door Westinghouse Transportation plant.now Bombardier Transportation
After railroad said it was not theirs.
I got a nice portfolio case as a Thank You from the chief of plant Security at Westinghouse who wanted to keep the whole thing quiet .
Dealing with an Affordable Furniture employee theft
to be continued.
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