Private Security in the Caribbean

Government Wage Bill Management and Civil Service Reform in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

“…The increases in crime and insecurity has increased the demand for private security to supplement the inadequacy of public security provision. There has been an increase in the number private security firms with greater skills and expertise, in certain respects, than the police (Bishop and Montoute, 2017) 21 Data was unavailable for Antigua and Barbuda. 22 The indicators reflect perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government's commitment to such policies.…”