The roles of police officers and private security officers generally has the same functions, but each officer has their own tasks and priorities while on duty. Private security guards have a wide variety of job tasks. According to Mulone (2011), several malls in the United Kingdom has found that security officers tasks devote a lot of their time to non-security functions, such as customer service. Private security officers has the power of citizen’s arrest, but in case of an emergency, security officers are not legally compelled to act in a crisis, they also lack the superior law enforcement powers (Blackstone & Hakim, 2013). When police officers are hired by security companies their main task is to protect private interests and assets. Police
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Not only do school shootings happen, but other serious crimes occurs, such as; forms of violence, assaults, and robberies. Since crime varies across different geographic locations, crime rates also vary by schools. Urban school are more susceptible to crime and violence than others (Jennings et al, 2011). In addition, a variety of requirements for colleges, universities, hospitals, chemical and nuclear plants created a large demand for private security. According to the 1990 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, both of these require colleges and universities to publish their crime statistics annually (Blackstone & Hakim, 2013). A study done by Dameron et al (2009) found 79.9% of private colleges and 95% of public universities posted information about their campus crime statistics on their institutions website. Crime statistics are not the only thing required by the Clery Act, it also requires colleges and universities to post crime alerts. The Act does not specify how these crime alerts can notified. The institutions can notify students and faculty by website, email, and/or by phone. 24.7% of private colleges and 55% of universities had placed a crime alert notification on their institutions website (Dameron et al, …show more content…
A leading and growing cybercrime is online child exploitation. Some online sites offer trade in child-sex images. These trade images are annually estimated to reach around $20 billion (Avina, 2011). In 2003, Bill Gates received a letter from Sergeant Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police Department, regarding how the police department wanted to bring down online predators. In Bill Gates response, the company designed a software known as The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS). This software allows criminal investigating units from countless counties to track and identify links between material and being able to identify the owners of the child exploitations. CETS is now being used by seven counties and used by 400 investigators worldwide. The demand for this software is growing progressively. Not only is the demand for CETS high, Microsoft offers this program to police departments free of charge and also donates all the training and server software required to install the application at no cost to the departments (Avina, 2011). In 2008, one out of many success stories that came from CETS was an investigation conducted by the Australian Federal Police to use the program to find
Not only do school shootings happen, but other serious crimes occurs, such as; forms of violence, assaults, and robberies. Since crime varies across different geographic locations, crime rates also vary by schools. Urban school are more susceptible to crime and violence than others (Jennings et al, 2011). In addition, a variety of requirements for colleges, universities, hospitals, chemical and nuclear plants created a large demand for private security. According to the 1990 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, both of these require colleges and universities to publish their crime statistics annually (Blackstone & Hakim, 2013). A study done by Dameron et al (2009) found 79.9% of private colleges and 95% of public universities posted information about their campus crime statistics on their institutions website. Crime statistics are not the only thing required by the Clery Act, it also requires colleges and universities to post crime alerts. The Act does not specify how these crime alerts can notified. The institutions can notify students and faculty by website, email, and/or by phone. 24.7% of private colleges and 55% of universities had placed a crime alert notification on their institutions website (Dameron et al, …show more content…
A leading and growing cybercrime is online child exploitation. Some online sites offer trade in child-sex images. These trade images are annually estimated to reach around $20 billion (Avina, 2011). In 2003, Bill Gates received a letter from Sergeant Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police Department, regarding how the police department wanted to bring down online predators. In Bill Gates response, the company designed a software known as The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS). This software allows criminal investigating units from countless counties to track and identify links between material and being able to identify the owners of the child exploitations. CETS is now being used by seven counties and used by 400 investigators worldwide. The demand for this software is growing progressively. Not only is the demand for CETS high, Microsoft offers this program to police departments free of charge and also donates all the training and server software required to install the application at no cost to the departments (Avina, 2011). In 2008, one out of many success stories that came from CETS was an investigation conducted by the Australian Federal Police to use the program to find