Relationship Between Private and Public Police

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Chaisity Fridia Relationship between Private and Public Police Instructor: Jean Bandish Introduction to Security CJS/250 December 22, 2010 Relationship Between Private and Public Police Why do we have private and public police officers? What are the differences in the services that are provided by both? Should there be any differences in the way the two operate, serve and protect? We all have our opinions about what we think about them and how we feel they should be rendering services. Is the relationship between the two a positive one or a negative one. They both serve the same purpose and should be operating under the same guidelines, to a certain extinct. Initially it was the responsibility of the public police-law enforcement to provide protection to all society and the property that existed within the jurisdictions these police officers served. On an average day, public and private officials can be found working on a regular basis at numerous public and private events-functions. In addition, it is not uncommon to observe police officers working part-time jobs with private security officials in order to safeguard valuable assets. Certain jurisdictions throughout the States, have giving special private security officers arrest powers as a result of the lack of public security officers available. One major difference that has been slowly but steadily changing is the mandatory training required for both the public and private security officers. The training and education a public police officer must complete in order to be hired by any department, is on average far more in-depth than that of a private security officer who usually is forced to submit to a standard drug test and a basic back ground criminal investigation check. But the educational opportunities that exist in modern day, the availability of these educational opportunities and the
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