Night Watch

Security guard

A security guard is a person employed by an organization or individual to protect their assets from a variety of hazards by enforcing preventative measures. These assets may include property, people, equipment, money, housing societies, etc. Guards protect them by maintaining a high-visibility presence to deter illegal and inappropriate actions. They may do that by looking for signs of crime or other hazards and taking action to minimize the damage. The actions can include warning and escorting trespassers off property, reporting incidents to clients, reporting to emergency services, and informing police or emergency medical services as appropriate.

Watchman (law enforcement)

Watchmen were organised groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, and recovery of stolen goods. Watchmen have existed since earliest recorded times in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised professional policing.

Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel)

Night Watch is a fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, the first to feature his fictional world of The Others. It was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. The novel is first in a cycle continued in Day Watch, Twilight Watch, Last Watch, New Watch, and Sixth Watch. "Destiny", the first story contained here, was made into the successful Russian film, Night Watch. While retaining many characters events, the adaptation alters some significant elements of the story. The second and third stories of the novel were adapted into the film's 2006 sequel, Day Watch.

Night

Night, or nighttime, is the period of darkness when the Sun is below the horizon. Daylight illuminates one side of Earth, leaving the other in darkness. The opposite of nighttime is daytime. Earth's rotation causes the appearance of sunrise and sunset. Moonlight, airglow, starlight, and light pollution dimly illuminate night. The duration of day, night, and twilight varies depending on the time of year and the observer's latitude.

night watch

Noun

1. A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
2. One or more of the guards on such a watch.