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Salt Lake Valley Protective Services Vendor Payment

This company does not pay their bills. But furthermore, they don't return calls, answer emails, and just basically blow you off.

I have been in business for over 6 years and have had over 300 clients. This is the first company I will have to sue for a lousy $405 payment.

Redefining Professionalism-That's a joke!

It sounds like they have real troubles paying their employees as well.

Let me lay it out for you guys-pay in this manner;

Employees-1st
Vendors-2nd
You-LAST!

I recommend you don't do business with these guys without getting a payment in advance...and you may want to make sure it doesn't bounce!

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WyoMoe
Tulsa, US
Jan 11, 2013 9:35 am EST

My son, and Brandon's Half Brother Taylor M. also worked for these guys. His Pay Checks bounced as well and he eventually left the company with them owing him in the neighborhood of $5, 000 - $8, 000. SO I guess they are Equal Opportunity Thieves.
Now it looks as if the "Chickens have Come Home to Roost" as Brandon and his "Business Partner" have been arrested.

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FedupwithSLVPA
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Aug 17, 2011 6:53 pm EDT

I worked for this company for quite a long time and I have to say that I completely agree with this complaint. In the time I was there I had answered the phones to 200+ companies SLVPA owed money to. As I took down the information I started doing the math at my "State of the Art" Dispatch desk. Just from the phone calls that I would take they were approx. $750, 000.00 in the hole! Not to mention the employees both past & present who called continually to see if they could cash their Paychecks. Furthermore, if you started to make too big of a stink over not being able to cash at least one of the 4 paychecks you were holding, they would make your life MISERABLE! Especially Charles "Brandon" Snively-who would make you feel guilty for asking to cash your earned check, pay your bills & feed your family. Brandon (who also goes by the name of Hunter Stevens) should have gone into debate-just try to get a word in while he's ripping you a new one for asking to get paid. Mike Vigil's own cousin quit because he couldn't cash his checks-HIS OWN COUSIN! If you won't even pay family then you know there is something wrong with these men! Our best hope of getting rid of these two in the Security business is to have a current client complain to the D.A.'s office. After 200+ complaints at the Labor Commission alone by former employees you would think it would be enough to put them out of business for good-NOPE! Let's try to remove this "black eye" from the Security Profession.!

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Salt Lake Valley Protective Services Mike Vigil, Brandon Snively, Chris Barney and Company

This complaint is on: Salt Lake Valley Protective Services, AKA: Valley Protective Services, SLVPS, and Salt Lake Valley Protective Parking Enforcement

There are alot of security companies in the Salt Lake Valley who are all professional and dont have to "Redefine Proffessioanlism". Unfortunately Salt Lake Valley Protective Services is NOT one of them. Salt Lake Valley Protective Services is owned and operated by the same two clowns (Mike Vigil and Brandon Snively) whom the Utah Department of Occupational and Proffessional Licensing had to shut down in 2004 for multiple ethical and State Regulatory Violations. They also had a Security Officer Rape a girl at the Heartland apartmentmets around 2002 and they were bouncing paychecks to their employees every pay day. You can call the Dept. of Professional and Occupational licensing and ask for Clyde Ormond or Gaylin Kester in investigations and they will confirm that this is true!

As of 2005, less then a year after the State of Utah shut them down, Brandon Snively had his room-mate, Mike Vigil re open their company and apply with the State for licensure. Even though they were all ready illegally engaged in the business after being shut down and this is how Brandon Snively PERMANATELY LOST HIS LICENSE TO EVER BE A SECURITY OFFICER IN UTAH FOREVER. Just pop into Valley Protectives office, Mr. Snively will be behind the window in his polo with no uniform or gun. Go to www.dopl.utah.gov and verify Brandon Snively, you will see he holds NO LICENSE.

Now Salt Lake Valley Protective Services, LLC is NOT-really "Redefining Professionalism" as they claim on their business cards and such. They are the same old clowns doing the same old things! They intentionally made their badges look like Salt Lake City Police Department just like Valley Protectives patrol cars were trying to look like Salt Lake Police cars. They even have a retired FBI Agent as their "Qualifying Agent". What type of retired FBI Agent would support a immoral company like Salt Lake Valley Protective Services to continue to impersonate local law enforcement, and bounce employees paychecks which is agaist Federal Labor Laws, boy this company is all about redefining professionalism! And the best part of this whole thing is now Valley Protective Employees are standing up to not getting paid and a bunch of them went to the Office (May 2009) with South Salt Lake City Police Officer to try to get their paychecks! Way to go guys, thats redefining professionalism.

Lets break down there management and name names:

Owner on paper with State is Mike Vigil.
Under the table Owner Partner is Brandon Snively.
Business Development Manager and wanna be "COP" and a wanna be Special operations Officer is little Chris Barney. Oh boy, let me educate you on Barney 5 and his history. He worked for Peak Alarm [protected]) and he worked for the former FIRST Slimey Salt Lake Protective Services, and he has been hired and fired by many other companies since then. He also flagrently violates Non-Compete Agreements with almost every Security Company he has worked for. He has worked for about every security company in the Valley and is a real gun slinger. He will pull his gun playing cop every chance he gets, he is one of those Security (Unprofessional) Officers that was picked on growing up and just could cut the Military or the Police Acadamy so he is playing want to be cop. He drives the Tahoe marked Salt Lake Valley Protective Services Patrol truck which you may see around Bountiful, or Salt Lake City, which vehicle is marked "Special Operations". The only "special operations" they have is their special redfinition of UNPROFESSIONALISM. I hope all Law Enforcement Agencies in Davis County, Salt lake County and Utah and Weber and Summit Counties all be on the look out for the impersonators of Law Officers which Salt Lake Valley and their Qualifying Agent all allow! Heck and this
"alleged retired FBI AGENT"

It also needs to be known that a lot of us here worked for Valley Protective Services here in Utah and their management encourages us patrol officers to falsify paper work and say we are hitting accounts. Even worse back last June of 2008 one of Salt Lake Valley Protective Services Managers Mr. Bret Rodeback, was texting on his cell in his Security Patrol Car while going to an Alarm and he struck a passenger car hard, in front of his car and KILLED 2 Juveniles. Fortunately The Utah Highway Patrol had high turn over in investigations and Bret Rodeback's brother (Dale Rodeback) is a Murray Police Officer so it is no wonder our unethical Utah Highway Patrol failed to site or file any charges of Negligent Homicide or Vehicular Manslaughter against Bret Rodeback. This can be used as a sample case by all future Defense Attorney's whom represent members of the public who hit and kill people on our roads to get them off scott free like Bret Rodeback did. I hope and pray that these familys whom sufferred the death of two loved ones and injuries of two others get good Attorney's and sue the pants off of Valley Protective. Luckily good security officers have been jumping ship from the shanadagons of Valley Protective and are going to work now for other good Security Companies.

Now unfortunately we need to name clients names who unfortunately Salt Lake Valley Protective Services has been hiding there dirty past and dirty present from:

Utah Apartment Association
Commercial Propertys like CALDWELL BANKER
AMC Property Management (Greg Wiseman's) Company
Wasatch Club Apartments
Mountain Shadows Apartments
Promontory Point Apartments
Fairstone at Riverview ApartmentsHunterswoods Apartments
Trailor Parks in Clearfield and Salt Lake City
Phelps Trucking in North Salt Lake City
Storage Units in North Salt Lake by Center street and the RR tracks

Any other companies, or Utah Apartment complexes and apartment managers need to be aware that Salt Lake Valley Protective Services is the MOST unethical company to ever work Security in the Utah area. If you want to support a "huge Liability" and pay cheap money for a dirty security company like Several apartment management teams here in Utah have then you can take the risk of Barney shooting someone, or officers dogging their patrol hits, or raping someone! We encourage you all as viable future clients looking for Security to Define Professionalism and Do not Contract out with Salt Lake Valley Protective Agency AKA - Cop wanna bees. I hope between DOPL or the Dept. of Occupational and Professional Licensing and local Law Enforcement this crooked and unethical company can be shut down. I would encourage current or former security officers to come forward to DOPL Investigations on violations they are aware of Salt Lake Valley Protective Services violations of Labor Laws or other State Laws.

Respectfully,

Leaders in The Utah Security Industry and factual witneeses of all events herein by past and current employees of Salt Lake Valley Protective!

PS> Contact Gaylin Kester in DOPL Investigations to post complaints on Salt Lake Valley Protective services...@ [protected]@utah.gov, or you may contact the Beaureu 6 Manager at DOPL, Mr. Clyde Ormond at [protected]@utah.gov and they would be more then happy to listen to any and all complaints one has against the currupt Salt Lake Valley Protective crew!

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B Fox
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Aug 30, 2021 6:24 pm EDT

I use to work for SLVPA [protected]. my ident was 2(Oscar)22. I never had an issue with being under paid or a check bouncing. I never had any problems with anyone. I will say my only complaint was the dispatcher. Who was 1S9 wife. 1S9 was Salisbury ident. She was always watching movies during her shift instead of monitoring the radio traffic. Most of the officer's were definitely wannabe cops, but you know, if I ever had a problem with strange dudes in the middle of the night ( I was unarmed) I knew Salisbury or one of the other patrol officers would come fast. And they always did. Always had my back. I was a guard mostly at Greenpoint, Eagles Landing, Nicholas Distribution and the Airport Hilton. I had my problems with management, but it was because of stupid [censored] I did( hard time staying awake some nights). If SLVPA was still around, I'd go back. I never had any issues with them. To me, the people at SLVPA just loved their jobs. Brandon Snively was a good guy.

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sgtpolice
Denver, US
Oct 22, 2012 7:01 pm EDT

The rape that happened in 2002 was true. I was a police officer with SLC back then and knew about the SLVP security officer raping the girl. He drugged the girl into the clubhouse and handcuffed her to a chair. This company is pretty much a slim-ball security company. Some high admin people have put RED and BLUE lights on the patrol cars, and their patches and badges looks like SLC PD. I took a report one time at night from a victim and a apt complex, and the victim told me that SLC PD all ready took the report, I Thought is was my officer, since I was a sgt and working as shift sup. and I showed up late, but the security officer was the one she talked too. I did'nt find out until the next night. That pissed me off so much I tried to get a hold of SLVP to see which security officer took the report and making the victim thinking that SLC POLICE was handling it already. This is called Impersonating a police officer and advised them about the report. Barney stated nobody took a report like that and f--- lied to me. The POS guy, I 'm retired now and running the best Security company in Denver.

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Harlo Jones
, US
Feb 15, 2011 5:52 am EST

What, pray tell, does someone being GAY (or not) have to do with their ability (or inability) to run a company and pay employees on time? That is a complete fallacy which ends up discrediting your entire statement.

Argue the legitimate arguments about SLVP -- there are many to be made.

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wifeofformeremployee
Salt Lake City, US
Dec 14, 2010 7:30 pm EST

I will definitely agree with most of the complaints on this board. My husband, the former CCTV installer/ security guard (95% of the time) is glad he quit. Brandon and Mike are GAY! That is the reason for the checks being so late. They lost several large accounts since moving into there new office, including Nicolas. I am all for shutting them down. As far as I can hear they have over 80 complaints from over 80 former employees with the labor commission. Several employees have quit within 3 weeks of starting because of the pay. I say they need to close up shop and cut their losses and let those who have quit collect unemployment.

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sehansen
Sugar City, US
Nov 16, 2010 9:42 pm EST

The one thing I've noticed on all of these posts is that no one seems willing to identify themselves. I am. I'm Steven Hansen and I worked for SLVPA from Jan '09 to Jan '10. I worked at Liberty Midtown for about 3 months and Broadway Tower for nine months with other sites intermittently thrown in including the University Marriott and Dopplemayr. In that year the only time I was able to cash a check on pay day was the day I drove fast enough to be the second or third person to the bank. To tell the truth if it wasn't for the payroll issues I'd still be working there. I loved most of the sites I worked at and the people there and I liked several of the other employees including Lt. Alphonso Mulluwey (I don't know what he was like dealing with other people but he was always pretty good with me, even telling be about another security job in the area and offering to give me a recommendation when he found out I was considering "jumping ship"). I never cared much for Brandon because, while he never came across as pompous or arrogant to me, as the boss it was ultimately his responsibility to make sure I got paid on time every time without making excuses and he never did that. He failed in his responsibility to all his people. To date I still have not been able to cash my last paycheck from them even though it's less than $800. While working for them I even reached the point of nearly being evicted from my apartment because I had three paychecks I couldn't cash. I even called the police in despiration to see if there were any government agencies or anything that could help me and was told by the dispatcher that I had to find a lawyer on my own and they couldn't tell me anything else because if I lost my lawsuit I could turn around and sue the police department- even though I never said anything about suing SLVPA (I couldn't, and still can't, afford it). I even emailed Gephardt, as someone earlier suggested and told him what the company was doing and never recieved a response. I also noticed how in the middle of everyone's paycheck bouncing SLVPA found the money to remodel the office, buy a protable surveillance unit (which another guard whose name I don't remember told me cost $20, 000, though I don't know if he was right), have a cleaning crew come in to the office once a week, and have an ex-Salt Lake Police Detective teach the monthly training classes. As for leaving sites in the middle of a shift, there were multiple times I was contacted and instructed to leave Liberty Midtown and go to the University Marriott because no one had shown up for that shift. I would also go weeks at Broadway Tower without seeing a patrol officer even though, as I later found out, they were supposed to be checking on me every night. I believe one of the patrol officers actually told me once that they didn't worry about checking up on me because they knew I was doing my job. When I was transfered to Broadway Tower and the Broadway Tower guard was transfered to Liberty Midtown Lt. Mulluwey's exact words to me were "I need you to save this site for me." In getting to know some of the tenats there I was told that the previous guards were either lazy and didn't want to do anything or seemed "creepy" and "power-hungry". One of the female tenants told me that the guards who had worked there before me were guys who had made her feel "uncomfortable". Later I ran into one of the Liberty Midtown tenants who told me "...we miss you..." and that the guard who had replaced me didn't do anything but sleep all night. (I should add here that in truth, I was only a mediocre guard. There were a LOT of things I screwed up and a lot of mistakes I made at every site I worked at-I just tried to keep learning and improving). As for SLVPA's "largest fleet in the state", in my mind the claim doesn't count when half or more of your vehicles are broken and can't be driven. In short, despite my anger over the pay issues at SLVPA, I mostly view the company as a tragedy. There are great people in the lower and middle ranks and the idea for SLVPA is a good one but it's run by incompetant people who have no clue how to run a business. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to, you you just can't make your dreams come true. I once wanted to be a Marine Corps officer, but I never made it past the enlisted ranks. Brandon wants to have one of the best private security companies in the state, but he never will.

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unknown, US
Jul 23, 2010 6:50 pm EDT

SecurityGuard22 I strogly disagree with you I am recent former employee of SLVPA (who does not redifine professinalism). i left on July 11, 2010. By state law i was suppose to get my check on July 10, 2010 and barley received it on the 14th by going to the office and defmanding my check, noing to only was Brandon Snivley 4 days late on giving me my check it did not cash. it is now the 24th and I still am unable to cash the damn check, and I go to the office requesting to speak with Brandon or Mike and they run lke little [censor]es into their damn offices and hide like girls. Then i call the office and the HR was instructed by Brandon to tell everybody he is not the office or unavailable which is complete [censor]. I was employed for 2 years and was a ranking officer. I knew everything that happened within the company, all the lies, cheats, and law breakings they have committed. They still owe me one more check that i am suppose to get on the 25th and i guarantee that one will not cash either. I live at one of their patrol properties and I have not seen tehm once come by. Ive called them for noise complaints and have not seen them arrive for any of the calls. Brandon Snivley and Mike Vigil DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES, they aonly care about themselves, and are stashing money away and I know for a fact they are by legal documentations provided for my viewing. So twhen they say they have no money, it is complete [censor] because they do. [censor] BRANDON SNIVLEY & MIKE VIGIL!

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SECURITYGUARD22
Bountiful, US
Jul 14, 2010 8:33 am EDT

OK GUYS I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT THE PAYROLL THING SUCKS THE REASONING BEHIND IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE, I HAVE TALKED TO BRANDON AND MIKE AND I HAVE NEVER HAD ANY SORT OF BAD CONNECTIONS WITH ANYONE IN THE OFFICE THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE THEY TRY HARD I HAVE NEVER SEEN BRANDON CARRY A FIRE ARM AT ALL NOR HAVE I SEEN HIM WEAR A COMPANY SHIRT REALLY YOU GUYS HAVE SOME RESPECT GO TRY AND RUN YOUR OWN COMPANY AND COME BACK AND TELL US ALL ABOUT IT ITS NOT AS EASY AND WHEN PEOPLE BAD TALK THE COMPANY OR ITS PEOPLE IT ONLY MAKES IT HARDER EVERYONE ELSE IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT TAKE IT TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES AND DON'T MAKE IT THAT MUCH HARDER FOR THOSE OF US TRYING TO BETTER THE COMPANY THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE I HAVE KNOW THEM ALL FOR A REALLY LONG TIME AND I HAVE WORKED FOR THEM FOR A WHILE AS WELL SO GIVE IT A REST AND LEAVE THEM BE!

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SLVPA Hater
, US
Jul 09, 2010 4:54 pm EDT

I am a former employee of this company, as of two weeks ago! I could not be happier that I am away from such dishonest, and crooked people. Mainly Mike Vigil, and Brandon Snively. I worked for SLVPA for close to five months and it was honestly the worst five months of my life. The work itself wasn't bad, but when you do your job, and do it well I might add, you should EXPECT to get paid. You shouldn't have to worry about when or if your check will cash or not. Brandon and Mike blame it on the economic problems of the state, but we all know how full of it they are. They pretend to be leaders in the industry. They pretend to have lots of training opportunities, and most of all, they pretend to be PROFESSIONALS. This is a bunch of bull. As of the tenth of July, I'll have four pay checks that are for over a thousand dollars each. They have no respect for their employees or their families, and I cannot wait to see Mike Vigil, and Brandon thrown in Jail. They are committing check fraud, and they all know it.

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sure slvp sucks
Ogden, US
Jul 07, 2010 9:39 pm EDT
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I just found this blog, and was wondering if anyone has more information on the incident regarding Bret Tracy Rodeback. If they do please e-mail me at roughneck0891 at yahoo. I am only looking for information regarding the incident of his motor vehicle accident/ neglegent homicide. In the title please put Bret T. Rodeback. Any help with regards to how to gain proof, of his actions leading to this event would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Seriously interested.

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Corbie
, US
Mar 04, 2010 9:43 am EST

Someone should call GET GEPHARDT and spill all this -- it's good enough to make the NEWS for sure. I'm sure it wouldn't get anyone paid, but it would hopefully ruin their reputation and cost them clients so they'd have to shut down and wouldn't be able to rip people off anymore!

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