Roles and Responsibilities of Public and Private Policing

Running Head : Roles and Responsibilities of Public and Private Policing

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Introduction

For better understanding of roles and responsibilities of private and public policing for the sake of comparing and contrasting them , it is important to elaborate on the meaning of word policing . According to Button (2002 , the term policing have evolved over time . In 18th century the term policing meant regulation of government , morals and economy (Button 2002 pp . 5 , which later evolved and became associated with crime prevention and maintenance of law

and . This understanding of the policing resulted to word `police ' greatly connected with body of persons created to perform role of maintaining law and as well as prevention of crime

The association of the terms policing and police or the view that police performs only policing work results misunderstanding of the two terms In the today 's context where the role of averting crimes and maintenance of law and has been undertaken by other organizations other than the traditional police , policing has been defined to include the traditional police in conjunction with other organizations . It is important to realize that in the current world , the work of policing has been greatly done by other organizations apart from the police only , as it used to be in past . Button (2002 ) defines policing as a function of society that contributes to a particular social that is carried out by a variety of different bodies and agents (Button 2002 pp . 6...