Civil Liability and Private Police

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Introduction

Private police and their power over citizens has been one of the most important concerns in security management . In normal cases , security officers assumes no more authority to act compared to private citizens except when they have been deputized through the local enactment which provide them with special powers . Private police to a large extent enjoy arrest powers in many places in the world

In the recent past , there has been increased outsourcing of

a number of policing activities from the public police and from other security agencies . This is usually referred to as pluralized or multi-lateral policing . It is in the interest of dispersal of social control for the governance of security . But one of the arising has been the public perception of the private policing in light the how the private police will enforce laws . Like other law agencies , private police have the duty of enforcing security measures and the public has the duty of obeying them (Moore , 2008

Civil liability and private policing

Private police have taken enforce security measures in many areas Private security tackles some of the following tasks and duties

Law enforcement activities like patrolling , crowd control , monitoring of traffic , transit policing , and others

Regulatory control activates like licensing

Peace keeping activities like anti-violence , anti-terrorism

Operational and support activities like human resource , forensic services , IT services , logistics , taking statements

Crime prevention strategic planning activities like the development of electronic hardware and software , training and development consultancy activities and others

However there are some important distinction that shows the differences between the public and the private police powers and immunities . Public police are empowered through the legislation to enforce laws . This is not granted for the private polices . This shows that there is less likelihood of public compliance when it comes to enforcement of the law Public police are given statutory immunity from any civil suite in case their beliefs and the act are reasonable and accomplished in the course of their duty . On the other hand private personnel are not granted any such exemption and they are treated as public in regard to the laws Public police are given the power to prevent the committing of an offence just before it happens . In this case they are given power to restrain someone from committing an offense through arresting . For the private police , they are not granted powers to make arrest before one commits an offence . Therefore they are not well equipped to deal with crimes and restrain the commitment of such crimes before it happens (Sarren , 2006

Some powers of citizen 's arrest in most cases rely upon the citizen determining whether a felony or a misdemeanor has actually being committed or not . They power of arrest is confined in a post-action determination in which case the crime will have already occurred Therefore it is sometimes difficult for the private police to have full enforcement of the...