Abstract
The growth in size, role and authority of private security has triggered a variety of regulatory reactions. These have stimulated a growing academic debate on preferred regulatory models. This paper summarizes the key existing models of regulation. It then provides a critique of the observations of Loader and White (Regul Gov 11(2):166–184, 2017) on the existing models. It critically examines their proposed model and outlines how we believe that private security regulation can be enhanced by setting out ‘three-pillars’ of effective regulation. The literature and research points towards the need for a regulatory pillar that enhances the wider private security sector, a distributive pillar that addresses security inequality and lastly a responsibility pillar designed to align the private security industry with the public interest.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 247-260 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Security Journal |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 2 Dec 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2021 |
Keywords
- governance
- private security
- public interest
- regulation
- security industry
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the Security Journal. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41284-019-00224-3.