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A paper which considers the role of private security forces with relation to both the police force and the community as a whole, and investigates how they can be effectively integrated in law enforcement and community policing initiatives.
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File: JL5_JLsecur.rtf
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been raised since the inception of private security forces in the UK, especially with regard to the role of security guards in relation to the police, and the powers which
such guards should be allowed to deploy. It is evident, for example, that the very fact that private security forces are seen as necessary in some areas strongly implies that
the governments law and order policies are failing to meet the requirements of the communities involved: whether this is due to deficiencies in policy-making, or a lack of resources, is
of course another issue. However, the fact remains that if it is seen as necessary to supplement the police force with private security groups, then there must be shortcomings in
the service which the police is able to provide, and the question then arises as to whether it is appropriate to fill these gaps with groups which are not subject
to the control and discipline of the police force itself. It
might be useful, therefore, to consider the way in which society as a whole has changed over the past few decades, and why it is apparently the case that the
police force can no longer cope with the law enforcement demands of local communities. It is certainly the case that there have been significant changes in the structure of local
communities in the UK: the slum clearance programmes of the 1960s, and the construction of high rise flats to replace terraces of workers houses, meant that small local communities became
fragmented and individuals increasingly alienated. Prior to these radical changes, these small communities had been effectively self-policing, with police officers drawn from, and familiar with, those who lived in the
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