Instructor Manual with Test

Instructor Manual with Test Bank Introduction to Private Security

SECOND EDITION

John S. Dempsey

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Chapter 1 The History and Professionalization of Private Security

Learning Objectives

• To acquaint students with the rich, colorful history of private security in Rome and England.
• To explore the history of private security in the United States.
• To familiarize students with the relatively recent movement to achieve professionalism in the

private security industry.

• To explore college programs in private security.
• To acquaint students with current ethical standards in the private security industry.

Chapter Outline

• Introduction
• Post 9-11
• Private Security Industry
• Early Development of Private Security
• Early History
• France & England

ii. Codes of Conduct

• Private Security in Ancient Rome
• Public Law Enforcement
• Questors
• Slavery to protect homes
• Private Security in England
• Early History
• Feudal System
• Thief-takers

ii. Jonathan Wild

• Henry Fielding
• Bow Street Runners
• Peel’s Police
• Metropolitan Police Act
• Private Security in the United States
• Patterned after English system
• Colonial Experience
• Schouts
• Constables
• Nigh-watch
• The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Boston – 1838 2 / 4

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• New York – 1845
• Philadelphia – 1854
• Chicago
• Merchant’s Police
• The “West”
• Sheriff’s

ii. Marshall’s

• Allan Pinkerton
• Pinkerton National Detective Agency

ii. International Policing iii. First Female Detective – Katy Warne – 1856 iv. Pinkerton Protective Patrol – 1857

• Molly Maguire’s
• Rocky Mountain Detective Association
• Wells, Fargo & Co.
• Railway Police Acts - 1865
• Wyoming Cattle Growers Association
• Association Detectives
• Home Rangers – Texas
• Jeweler’s Security Alliance
• Edwin Holmes
• First electric burglar-alarm system

ii. Holmes Protection Company – 1858

• Washington Perry Brink – Brink’s Inc.
• Telegraph
• Morse

ii. ADT – American District Telegraph

• Private Security Task Force Report
• Ineffective public police protection

ii. Increased crimes against railroads iii. Increased industrialization conflicts

• The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium
• Growing Need
• Business and Technological Advances
• William J. Burns Detective Agency – 1909
• WW II
• Industrial Security Manual
• Korean War / Cold War
• Industrial Defense Program
• National Industrial Security Program
• American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)
• George R. Wackenhut
• Wackenhut Corporation

g. National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) merger of:

• National Automobile Theft Bureau (NATB)

ii. Insurance Crime Prevention Institute (ICPI) 3 / 4

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• US Department of Justice Reports

i. Private Police in the United States: Findings and Recommendations –

1971

ii. Private Security: Report of the Task Force on Private Security – 1976

iii. The Hallcrest Reports

• Key Findings
• Drops in Crime
• Demographics

ii. Increased incarceration rates iii. Aggressive & productive policing

• Professionalism of Private Security
• Tradition – lack of professionalism
• 1950’s – beginnings of professionalism
• ASIS International
• Certified Protection Professional (CPP)

ii. Certified Professional Investigator (CPI) iii. Physical Security Professional (PSI) iv. Commission on Guidelines

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
• International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)
• Academy of Security Educators and Trainers (ASET)
• International Association or Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS)
• National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers (NASSLE)
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
• Security Industry Association (SIA)
• Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004
• Minimum standards or guidelines
• College Education and Private Security
• Continuing Education
• Bachelor Degree

ii. Master Degree iii. Certificate Courses

• Homeland Security studies
• Ethics and Private Security
• Importance
• Applied Ethics
• Ethical Conduct of Security Firms and Their Employees
• Ethics codes – value statements
• Ethics in the Security Profession – video from ASIS
• Ethical Issues Endemic to the Security Industry
• Law Commission of Canada
• Justice

ii. Equality iii. Accountability iv. Efficiency

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