Private Security In The Nineteenth Century

The moment human beings could understand that there is a difference in “this is mine” and “that is yours,” the theory of private security began. The earliest recorded examples of private security were in the thirteenth century where they wealthy individuals would hire private security personnel to protect their land and families. This type of security spread all over the world and when the industrial revolution began to have international relevance, so did the crimes and crime prevention methods as well. Early in the nineteenth century in England, a bill was passed which enforced law enforcement to enhance their private security force flexibilities. The private security industry in the United States began shortly after the English bill
In the United States World War I brought a high demand for private security to guard industrial plants, warehouses, oil, and gasoline installations, railway facilities, and port facilities against sabotage and espionage (Axelrod, 2014, p. 24). The Great Depression and World War II drastically caused a fluctuation in the need for its specialized services, but after the second World War, the sustained increased amount of private security measures being utilized all over the country became an economic necessity. After World War II, the use of private security increased to over 10,000 professional establishments in the United States utilizing private security services. In the twenty and twenty-first century, private security is performed in almost every type of economic profession through almost twenty different types of security. Since that time, a clearer purpose and function of private security has been adopted. The purpose of private security is to serve as a non-governmental, private-sector practice of protecting people, property, and information, conducting investigations, and otherwise safeguarding an organization‘s assets (ASIS International, 2009). With such a broad range of cliental, its function within its professional capacity throughout history excelled all over the United
They both serve in preventing crime, identifying criminals, and ensuring the security of society. As there are two private security practitioners for every one sworn law enforcement officer, effective partnerships can act as a much needed force multiplier (COPS, 2014). The FBI is currently expanding its private security innovative enterprise. The intent is to influence and increase positive relations with residential communities through private security agencies to provide informative material on how to protect against, prevent, and respond to criminal acts, terrorist attacks, and security breaches. This type of collaboration with private sector security businesses led to a record arrest total in 2010 of 202 people, some of whom were the world's top cyber criminals, according Gordon Snow of the FBI's cyber division (Agadoni, 2014). Its overall support has also continued through its historical use of the World Wars with deployed partnerships with the Department of Defense in many different logistical and operational matters. Many different branches of service used private security companies in the United States last several conflicts as passive defensive security which allowed more military service members to be engaged in offensive operations. The use of these private security guards or contractors to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the human