ISSUES IN PRIVATE SECURITY

Issues in Private Security

Issues in Private Security

Introduction

Being a security manger of a recently formed 30 person company, I have made a plan about security strategies that we can use in coming years. It is related to computer security in the workplace to avoid the use of drugs. In this plan of security strategies I have also identified potential losses (productivity, human, monetary, and intellectual) resulting from breaches in security and possible prevention measures.

Private Security

In its simplest form, the term private security refers to the protection of people, property, and information (Burstein, 1996). In its most complex form, it refers to individuals and businesses that provide, for a fee, services to clientele to protect their persons, their private property, or their interests from various hazards. The broadness of this definition indicates how expansive the scope of private security is. Because private security has alternately been referred to in the literature as private policing, asset protection, and protective security, there is little consensus among either academics or practitioners about what to call the field. There is even more disagreement as to whether it is a subfield of criminal justice, a specialization within schools of business or management, or merely an applied area of study within one of these disciplines. With such little agreement among practitioners and academics as to what constitutes private security, it is not surprising that there is no single definition. Despite the lack of agreement about what private security is and its place in the social sciences, a common thread ties together all security issues, ranging from protecting buildings and property to protecting corporate executives, from identifying shoplifters to protecting against identity theft, from detecting cybercrime to reducing baggage theft at airports. This common thread is the central focus of security—loss prevention. Loss prevention ...