A Survey of Security Legislation and Regulatory Strategies in Australia

Prenzler, Tim; Sarre, Rick

doi:10.1057/palgrave.sj.8340026

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“…Much of the authority that private investigators have stems from common law, rather than statute regulations like the public police. The regulations of private investigators mostly centre on the aspect of licensing and of proper character to hold a license (see also Prenzler and Sarre, 1999, 2012). Sarre and Prenzler (1999: 2) wrote ‘their powers are determined more by a piecemeal array of legal rights, privileges and assumptions of authority than by any settled law’.…”

Section: Private Policingmentioning

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Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia

King

2020

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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The business of private investigation has grown significantly in the past two decades. No longer can private investigating be considered an obscure form of private policing. Yet, despite the recent growth of interest in private policing, little research has been conducted on the services provided by private investigators. This article presents the results of an analysis of 33 in-depth interviews with Australian private investigators in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The article discusses their contemporary role in the context of providing justice, public policing and future regulatory challenges. The article extends the limited research on the services private investigators provide, including corporate fraud and financial investigations, risk advisory, and cyber and misconduct investigations. It identifies their backgrounds and education, and describes their clients. The study found that, contrary to expectations, to meet these new services, private investigators are now highly qualified academically and professionally. It was found that regulatory gaps have been created in the licensing of contemporary private investigators, and the use of private investigators allows clients to sidestep the justice system.

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Section: Private Policingmentioning

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Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia

King

2020

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…Research on regulation of private security has tended to encompass cases for regulation (Hakala 2008), the political context to regulation (White 2010), critiques of existing systems or parts of them (Prenzler et al 1998, Gimenez-Salinas 2004, Button 2011, Cihan 2013, Santonen and Passonen 2014 and comparison of state systems in federal systems or in regions of the world (Cunningham et al 1990, Prenzler and Sarre 1999, De Waard 1993, Hemmens et al 2001, Weber 2002. Comparisons have tended to follow basic criteria such as sectors covered by regulation, levels of training, licensing conditions and so on.…”

Section: European Private Security Regulation and Comparisonmentioning

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Comparing private security regulation in the European Union

Button

Stiernstedt

2016

Policing and Society

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This paper examines the regulatory systems for the private security industry in the European Union (EU). Building upon other studies to compare regulatory systems it proposes a much more sophisticated approach to assess the quality of regulatory systems using 22 different criteria based on two areas: legislation and societal foundations. From this analysis a maximum of 100 points are possible and the paper is able to rank 26 of the 28 member states of the EU. The league table ranks Belgium and Spain as having the most comprehensive regulatory systems in the EU. The paper then provides analysis of some of the key findings from the league table noting some of the implications. One of the most important of which is the substantial differences between member states and the challenges this poses for an effective single market in the provision of security services. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…First, we know that a body of research has examined the nature of security work, legislative efforts and training requirements in Canada (Shearing and Stenning, 1981;Manzo, 2009), the United Kingdom, and Europe (George and Button, 1997;Button, 2002;Rigakos, 2002;Wakefield, 2003;Button, 2007), and Australia (Prenzler and Hayes, 1999;Prenzler and Sarre, 1999;Prenzler, 2005), which provides a framework to understand the scope of security work and the issues pertaining to security officers' training. Fewer studies, however, have explored security officers' perceptions of the training they received to perform their duties effectively.…”

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Security officers’ attitudes towards training and their work environment

Cobbina

Nalla

Bender

2013

Secur J

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A body of research has examined the nature of security work, legislative efforts and training requirements. Fewer studies, however, have explored security officers' perceptions of the training they received to perform their duties effectively. Although effort has been made to explore how useful the extant of training regime is for security officers in Canada (Manzo, 2009), it is unclear whether such views would hold among security officers in the United States, as both countries have minimal standard requirements regarding training. Building from Manzo's (2009) research, we use in-depth interviews with 19 US security officers to explore security officers' perceptions of training and what, if any, additional training security officers perceive that they need to perform their job effectively. Similar to Manzo's work, we found that some of the officers improvise the needs and demands of their jobs with experiences drawn from prior employment; however, unlike Manzo's study, security officers perceived a lack of adequate training to perform their tasks effectively and strongly endorsed the importance of and need for systematic and standardized training.

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A Survey of Security Legislation and Regulatory Strategies in Australia

Cited by 23 publications

References 4 publications

Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia

Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia

Comparing private security regulation in the European Union

Security officers’ attitudes towards training and their work environment

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