Private Security Personnel versus Transportation Administration Security Personnel— Increased Supervision?

2008 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Keyword(s):  
Private Security ◽  
Security Personnel

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 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.

scholarly journals The Public Surveillance Functions of Private Security

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
Public Surveillance ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Post War

This paper is concerned with arguably the most pervasive body of watchers in society, private security personnel. Set in the context of the rapid post-war expansion of both mass private property and private security, the contention of the paper is that the inter-dependency between these two industries is key to understanding the significance of surveillance as a form of governance in privatised urban spaces. Drawing on an empirical study of private security in three settings: a cultural centre, a shopping centre and a retail and leisure complex, it is argued that surveillance practices represented much more than an approach to policing and crime prevention in these venues, and were central to broader management strategies for the three centres. These surveillance practices also became the basis for collaborative working with the police. In the conclusion, a number of concerns are raised with respect to the policing aspects of surveillance, in relation to both commercial and public policing objectives and the human rights and civil liberties being eroded along the way.

scholarly journals Private security preparedness for disasters caused by fire

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-59
Author(s):  
Vladimir Cvetković ◽  
Slavica Pavlović ◽  
Bojan Janković
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Factors Of Influence ◽  
Disaster Control

The subject of the research was the examination of the factors of influence on the preparedness of the private security for disasters caused by fire. In addition to determining the preparedness index, there are deeper insights into the interrelationships between various selected variables and the level of preparedness of members of the private security. Using the random sampling method, 300 adult members of the private security were selected, and they participated in the research. The results of the research indicate that members of private security were not sufficiently prepared to react to fires. The research results could be used as a starting point for conducting further research in this area since the improvement in training of security personnel plays an important role in disaster control and prevention, thereby producing safer and more secure work environment and society.

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