A professional who patrols hotel or motel premises to maintain order, enforce regulations, and ensure observance of applicable laws. Respnsibilities include:

• Patrols lobbies, corridors, and public rooms, confers with management, interviews guests and employees, and interrogates persons to detect infringements and investigate disturbances, complaints, thefts, vandalisms, and accidents.
• Patrols public areas to detect fires, unsafe conditions, and missing or inoperative safety equipment.
• Warns or ejects troublemakers, and cautions careless persons.
• Obtains assistance for accident victims and writes accident reports.
• Notifies staff of presence of persons with questionable reputations.
• Assists management and enforcement officers in emergency situations.
• Usually is not armed.
• May enter and check rooms of guests suspected of leaving without paying bill to confirm suspicions and to seize any remaining personal property.