scholarly journals DO THE MEANS DEFEAT THE ENDS? Impact of legislation on Gauteng’s enclosed neighbourhoods

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyane Tshehla
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Security Personnel

Gauteng has most of the country’s enclosed neighbourhoods. The province is also ahead in its enactment of policy and legislation to regulate the restriction of access to public spaces for safety purposes. The goals of many residents are however likely to conflict with the legal provisions. For example, the legislation and policy provide that private security personnel at booms only monitor and observe activity. They may not search vehicles or people, or require registers to be completed, or request personal information from visitors to the area.

Bubbles of Governance: Private Policing and the Law in Canada

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
George S. Rigakos ◽  
David R. Greener
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Private Organization ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Private Policing

AbstractIn the last three decades, the public-private organization of policing in Canada has undergone significant change. It is now common sociological knowledge that there has been formidable growth in private security alongside evolving forms of private governance. These changing social relations have resulted in the prominence of actuarial practices and agents to enforce them. This paper examines how the Canadian socio-legal context affects and is affected by both private security and new, more aggressive, ‘parapolicing’ organizations. We update the state of knowledge on the powers of private security personnel by examiningCriminal Codeprovisions in apost-Charterlegal environment, comparing provincial trespass Acts, and analyzing how one aggressive ‘Law Enforcement Company’ as well as other private security firms, more generally, are both enabled and constrained by these legal provisions.

scholarly journals Securing Public Places: New Zealand’s Private Security Sector as a National Security Enabler

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Nicholas Dynon
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Training Standards ◽  
The Uk

In recent years, national security policy makers globally have grappled with the challenge of addressing the vulnerability of ‘public spaces’ to terror attack. In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks, it’s a challenge that has gained sudden urgency in New Zealand. Faced with the numeric impossibility of protecting infinite public spaces within their jurisdictions, several states have enacted strategies to utilise the considerable ‘eyes and ears’ capability of their private security personnel sectors. While the harnessing of numerically superior private security guard forces presents opportunities for a more linked-up approach to protecting the public, there are also significant barriers. Despite their massive growth in recent decades, private security industries the world over struggle with issues – both real and perceived – around pay and conditions, training, standards and professionalism. With the UK and Australia already having taken steps towards public-private security partnerships, to what extent does New Zealand’s private security guarding sector constitute a potential national security force-multiplier?

scholarly journals INTERPERSONAL TRUST AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION OF PRIVATE SECURITY FIRMS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-77
Author(s):  
Azubuike OBULOR ◽  
◽  
Drusilia ALAGAH ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Voluntary Turnover ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Rivers State

Building trust among individuals especially employees is key to achieving stated objectives. In this sense, building interpersonal trust among employees could translate into several positives which may include satisfaction on the job. This study seeks to ascertain if employees are satisfied or enjoy their job especially when they interact with themselves based on trust. 126 security personnel from 15 private security firms in Rivers State were administered copies of the questionnaire accordingly. Only about 73% representing 92 copies were retrieved successfully and used. Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to conduct the analysis. The outcome revealed that enhancing interpersonal trust in terms of vertical trust and horizontal trust is essential in improving the level of satisfaction of employees. It was recommended that; Organizations should develop trust in their employee-employer relationships so as to enhance employee engagement and increase employee retention. Organizations should institutionalize trust in their dealings with employees in order to create a flexible working environment that boosts employee productivity. Organizations should encourage trusting work relationships amongst employees to improve communication and reduce employee absenteeism. Organizations should create a working environment that builds trust amongst employees if they must encourage employee advocacy and lower voluntary turnover. Organizational leadership should create amiable climate that builds team spirit, and contribute positive results towards reducing long-term human resource costs.

scholarly journals An IoT and Blockchain Based System for Monitoring and Tracking Real-Time Occupancy for COVID-19 Public Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés ◽  
Iván Froiz-Míguez ◽  
Paula Fraga-Lamas
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The People ◽  
Private And Public

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several limitations regarding physical distancing in order to reduce the interactions among large groups that could have prolonged close contact. For health reasons, such physical distancing requirements should be guaranteed in private and public spaces. In Spain, occupancy is restricted by law but, in practice, certain spaces may become overcrowded, existing law infringements in places that rely on occupancy estimations that are not accurate enough. For instance, although the number of passengers who enter a public transportation service is known, it is difficult to determine the actual occupancy of such a vehicle, since it is commonly unknown when and where passengers descend. Despite a number of counting systems existing, they are either prone to counting errors in overcrowded scenarios or require the active involvement of the people to be counted (e.g., going through a lathe or tapping a card when entering or exiting a monitored area) or of a person who manages the entering/exit process. This paper presents a novel IoT occupancy system that allows estimating in real time the people occupancy level of public spaces such as buildings, classrooms, businesses or moving transportation vehicles. The proposed system is based on autonomous wireless devices that, after powering them on, do not need active actions from the passengers/users and require a minimum amount of infrastructure. The system does not collect any personal information to ensure user privacy and includes a decentralized traceability subsystem based on blockchain, which guarantees the availability, security and immutability of the collected information. Such data will be shared among smart city stakeholders to ensure public safety and then deliver transparent decision-making based on data-driven analysis and planning.

Display and control in online social spaces: Towards a typology of users

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 845-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Fortier ◽  
Jacquelyn Burkell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Display ◽  
And Control

Earlier research using qualitative techniques suggests that the default conception of online social networks is as public spaces with little or no expectation of control over content or distribution of profile information. Some research, however, suggests that users within these spaces have different perspectives on information control and distribution. This study uses Q methodology to investigate subjective perspectives with respect to privacy of, and control over, Facebook profiles. The results suggests three different types of social media users: those who view profiles as spaces for controlled social display, exerting control over content or audience; those who treat their profiles as spaces for open social display, exercising little control over either content or audience; and those who view profiles as places to post personal information to a controlled audience. We argue that these different perspectives lead to different privacy needs and expectations.

scholarly journals Neue Sicherheitsstrukturen im »neuen« Berlin

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (110) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Eick
Keyword(s):  
Homeless People ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Power ◽  
Private Control ◽  
Big Cities

In Berlin (and other big cities) private security agencies are growing rapidly. The expansion of their activity-fields, especially in public spaces, tends to transform the state monopol of legal power in a »private public partnership«. As a consequence public spaces get more and more under private control. Unwelcome groups like poor or homeless people are excluded from using these places.

scholarly journals Private Security and Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) Surveillance: A Systematic Review of Function and Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Brandon C. Welsh ◽  
Eric L. Piza ◽  
Amanda L. Thomas ◽  
David P. Farrington
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Active Monitoring ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Closed Circuit Television ◽  
Global Database ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Cctv Surveillance ◽  
And Performance

Private security personnel play an important but largely overlooked role in the operation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance to prevent crime in public and private areas. This role can take a number of forms, including active monitoring of cameras. Drawing upon a global database of CCTV evaluations ( N = 165), this article examines the function and performance of private security personnel as related to the effectiveness of CCTV. Findings indicate that CCTV schemes operated by private security personnel generated larger crime prevention effects than those operated by police or those using a mix of police and security personnel. Policy and research implications are discussed.

Security Managers' Attitudes toward Locus of Responsibility for Crime

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Kennedy ◽  
Robert J. Homant
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Business People ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Number Of Authors

A number of authors have expressed concern over the possibility that private security personnel pose a threat to citizens because work-related activities of the former are not controlled by the Bill of Rights. Samples of security employees, police officers, business people, and nurses were compared on the Locus of Responsibility for Crime scale. While police were the most conservative and nurses were the most liberal, security managers did not differ significantly from the business sample. Implications of those findings are suggested.

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