Originally Posted By: yelp
Originally Posted By: Tirec
One of the issues being considered is wearing a colored vest or even just a name badge to denote membership on the security team.

Have you considered using a certain kind of lapel pin or tie tack? Subtle identification tokens, but obvious if somebody knew to look for them. You could even have tokens that were identical except for color: one color would denote 'security,' another color could denote 'armed,' etc...

What is the benefit of "identifying" your security team to others? Or identifying if they're armed or not? If the team knows each other, the rest of the people don't need to know who they are. Probably better from a security standpoint if they don't. Before considering "how to identify?", first think about "why would I want to identify?" If there's no good reason to, ... don't.