LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF SECURITY

The Legal Framework of Security

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Law of Tort3

Mitigating Risk5

Employment law6

Dismissal & Disciplinary According to Law9

References10

Legal Framework of Security

Introduction

G4S Gurkha Services is an enhanced guarding company that falls within G4 Secure Solutions UK limited. As an enhanced security provider, G4S Gurkha Services protects critical national infrastructure, such as nuclear facilities, diplomatic residences and austere locations that hold critical national infrastructure. The company primarily employees retired Gurkha soldiers, however due to the Transfer of Undertakings for the Protection of Employment Law (TUPE), the company has started to absorb non-Gurkha security officers. The company employs approximately 650 security officers of which, approximately 15% are non-Gurkha. What is common to all employees is a military or service background. Individuals that have been absorbed into the company by TUPE are trained to a higher standard than their secure solutions UK limited counterparts. Failure to pass the training results in the officers' termination from Gurkha Services. Therefore, in the course of the paper light will be thrown in order to view the laws and applications stringed to it.

Discussion

Law of Tort

Tort law tends to stand against the actions in regard to the source of damage to the other individual irrespective of the nature. However, the nature of the damage which tends to fall under the tort law includes the physical injury to an individual, an accident done intentionally which can be disturbing for an individual. It also extends to include the actions which tend to invade the privacy of an individual or labelling the doings and associating him with the words which is not linked to him or her. Although the act of associating is done in order to harm the reputation of an individual, this falls under the bracket of defamation accredited to by Holland & Burnett (2002). The fact needs to be kept in mind that the person can drag the individual to the court based on the allegations which do not have any evidence associated to it.

In such a case the effected individual or organization tends to hold the right to take actions by dragging either the individual or the concerned organization to the court of the law. However, tort law primarily focuses on a common law inculcating the incidents of slander, liable or other mal practices as indicated by Narayanan (1994).However, the Tort Law tends to gain significance when it comes to the nature of the researcher's work at Job. In researchers opinion it is essential to state the fact that I own a security company which stretches to inculcate six hundred retired Gurkha soldiers along with the Non- Gurkha Soldiers. The nature of the work refers to the protection of coal fired power stations and nuclear sites.

As a part of job researcher need to make sure that the Law of tort does not face the neglect, which means that failure to use reasonable care leads to the unintended injury to another person. It can also mean that doing something not usually done by an individual in the light ...