Public Policing Vs. Private Security

Abstract

Within this paper it will define and analyze the likeness and distinction of public policing and the private security organizations over the nation's history. This paper will discuss how public policing and private security are correlated with the criminal justice system. It will also discuss how vital policies were and have been implemented to assist in the cooperative actions with the public police and the private security organizations. To end the discussion, the paper will look at the requirement for a security plan that is comprehensive and the justifications why each plan needs a working connection.

Brief Histories of Public Policing and Private Security

In ancient times, security the citizens and resources was the ongoing duties of tribes, clans, and individuals. In 2100 B.C., practices were unified through the King of Babylon, Hammurabi. As stated by Ortmeier, "the Code of Hammurabi represented the first written laws designed to prescribe the responsibilities of the individual to the group. The Code also specified a predictable punishment for each offense, thus reducing the possibility of barbarous and capricious punishment at the hands of revenge-seeking victims" (Ortmeier, 2009). Now concluding the Norman Conquest in 1066, Britain implemented an entity known as "shires" for the local administration. The king delegated an official of the law known as a "reeve" to execute the duties as the justice o9f the county. The shire reeve, as we know it today became sheriff was formed and legitimately warranted to take individuals into custody.

Before Sir Robert Peel had brought in the concepts of the London Metro Police Force, security and public police were pretty much identical. Once the modernized public police force was implemented by Peel, the bearing as the guardian of the local residents deteriorated the necessity for local residents to guard their own districts/neighborhoods. Their bearing as the guardian for the local residents to secure infrastructures, the buying and selling of goods, and vital equipment as policies and standards were developed, public police realized due to the number of law enforcement personnel, issues were noticed. Public policing is approximately 180 years old. This is fairly new in the contents of history. Nonetheless, these ideas for guarding individuals, sites, and things are ideas brought forward into today's world.

The great nations of the past used their military to guard and enforce the written laws within a particular city and/or province. The military during this era provided the safe guarding of the public citizens. The idea of the military providing public policing/security would continue to about 1600 A.D. This is when the great nations of the world would fall and a majority of the territories within Europe did not have control to guard for