Entanglements of private security and community policing in South Africa and Swaziland

2016 ◽  
Vol 115 (461) ◽  
pp. 710-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Diphoorn ◽  
Helene Maria Kyed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security

scholarly journals Towards a third phase of regulation:

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Berg ◽  
Jean-Pierre Nouveau
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Private Security ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Legislative Review

With the legislative review of police oversight currently taking place in South Africa, now is a good time to reflect on the regulation of the private security industry. This article does so by focusing on three challenges to the current private security regulatory systems: the increased pluralisation of policing within public spaces; the operation of hidden sectors within the industry; and the nature of criminal abuses perpetuated by the industry. We do this to demonstrate the need for a re-imagining of what regulation, especially state regulation, of this industry should entail. The aim of the article is not to review the current legislation or to identify gaps and propose means of filling those gaps, but rather to reflect on the underlying premises informing the legislation and propose a shift in thinking. We do this by briefly identifying two phases of state regulation in South Africa, implemented before and after the change to a new democratic dispensation, and suggest that we are now entering a third phase of regulation. We conclude with suggestions as to what this third phase may entail.

An Introduction to Tourism Policing and a Brief History

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 explores what tourism policing and private security are and how they differ from other forms of policing. The chapter provides a brief historical overview of American tourism policing in the late twentieth century and twenty-first century. The chapter addresses the similarities and differences between tourism policing and community policing, how they influence each other and where they separate. Finally, this chapter provides a literary overview of the pertinent literature that regarding tourism policing and addresses the lack of specific material in this field.

Moonlighting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Diphoorn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The Other ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
Private Policing ◽  
Continuous Boundary ◽  
Security Companies

This chapter focuses on police officers’ ‘moonlighting’ in South Africa. Working in security-related fields outside their police job, as bouncers or in private security companies, police officers engage in a space between public and private policing. This chapter shows not only that state and non-state policing practices influence one another, but that each contains an element of the other. Moonlighting is a continuous boundary-crossing between public and private, between state and non-state.

Private security and community policing: Evaluation and comment

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Walsh ◽  
Edwin J. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security
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