RT Article
T1 Private security services regulations in the United States today
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 41
IS 4
SP 287
OP 304
A1 McCrie, Robert
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1751370690
AB Security services regulations in the United States began formally in the second half of the twentieth century. Many states - never the federal government - first set and then increased, and sometimes decreased, standards over the years. With the shock from the events of 11 September 2001 (9/11) and the subsequent war on terrorism, the pace of regulatory growth increased. Even so, regulations for security personnel - especially security guards - remain at an indefensibly low level with 12 states having no requirements at all for unarmed security personnel and 14 having none for armed. Yet along the way, regulatory pre-employment screening requirements have incrementally improved, training demands, less so. Expecting a security officer with zero-to-a-few hours preassignment training to be a competent first responder, a skilled communicator with the public, a knowledgeable person about applicable law, an informed user of security technology, and a worker educated on the mission and operations of the workplace is not a convincing point of view. The security industry espouses higher standards, including through regulation, but then does not act upon its aspirations. For other security services - alarm installation and monitory personnel, investigators/private detectives, and locksmiths - regulations vary widely according to state. They don’t exist at all for security consultants. This article comments on and reviews regulations for all these security services.
K1 Regulations
K1 alarms
K1 Investigators
K1 locksmiths
K1 Private Security
K1 security consultants
K1 Security guards
DO 10.1080/01924036.2017.1364281