Public-private security partnership
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Security styles; Security market; Public security; Private security; Security partnership.
ENThe philosophy of public-private security partnership has been changed by substantial challenges for each society, political and economic instability in the “exposed to risk countries”, a wide range players in security market and a rapid development of private business. Reasons of widening public-private partnership model are linked to globalisation and marketisation of security industry. The author's analytical research focuses on an analysis of outcomes highlighting challenges of governance security industry faced by Member States. Each year private security industry across in EU represents 1.9 million jobs (or 325 private security officers per 100 000 inhabitants, 45,000 companies and annual revenue of € 40 billion). Private security companies are providing more and more various range of security services, which are traditionally been considered as a competence and responsibility of police and other public security agencies. Today we are faced with a situation that clearly shows the lack and/or differences of legal regulation of private security, common requirements for security business development, and risks of development of the public-private security partnership. On the other way, global challenges for security require to re-think an approach for the public-private partnership as integral and complex security mechanism. Many EU states present the public-private partnership model as a security guarantor that brings harmonization of law, code of ethics and standardization of security services.Accordingly, the main task for the research is to identify the most significant problems arising in the implementation of public–private security partnership model across Member States with different security traditions. Provision of public-private partnership in security industry may also be a business, the distinguishable feature of which is that the efficiency of the security services depends on competition between public and private security agencies. The establishment of universal regulatory mechanism for security business and public–private partnership would allow to prevent such type of business mode from negative trends. Public-private security partnerships are becoming more and more diverse and complex. In fact, public–private security partnership would allow creating a unique theory and practice of its own implementation and would be a basis of governing the security services providers. In order to achieve this vision it is necessary to determine the strategy of development of the security industry and to forecast conceivable dangers and risk in Member States. [From the publication]
