Private Security Officers

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Joseph Paolella ◽  
Dale L. June
Keyword(s):  
Private Security ◽  
Security Officers

Relations between police and private security officers: a case study of Serbia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Janković ◽  
Vladimir M. Cvetković ◽  
Saša Milojević ◽  
Zvonimir Ivanović
Keyword(s):  
Private Security ◽  
Security Officers

scholarly journals Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 075-087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand ◽  
Sara Uhnoo
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ethnic Matching ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Security Officers ◽  
Police Authority

This article draws upon two separate studies on policing in Sweden, both investigating “ethnic diversity” as a discourse and a practice in the performance of policing functions: one interview study with minority police officers from a county police authority and one ethnographic study of private security officers. To examine how “diversity policing” and the “policing of diversity” are performed by policing actors, their strategic reliance on an ethnically diverse workforce is examined. The official discourse in both contexts stressed “diversity policing” as a valuable resource for the effective execution of policing tasks and the legitimation of policing functions. There was, however, also another, more unofficial discourse on ethnicity that heavily influenced the policing agents’ day-to-day work. The resulting practice of “policing diversity” involved situated activities on the ground through which “foreign elements” in the population were policed using ethnicized stereotypes. Diversity in the policing workforce promoted the practice of ethnic matching, which, ironically, in turn perpetuated stereotypical thinking about Swedish “others”. A conceptual framework is developed for understanding the policing strategies involved and the disjuncture found between the widely accepted rationalities for recruiting an ethnically diverse workforce and the realities for that workforce’s effective deployment at the street level.

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