ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have illustrated the extensive roles of the wide range of public, private, hybrid and municipal organisations that are engaged in policing, particularly the growing role of the private security industry, while there are concerns about the accountability and control of many of these bodies, most anxieties concern the private security industry. As Stenning and Shearing (1979b: 263) have argued: ‘If private security personnel are in reality no different from ordinary citizens, a law which treats them alike seems most appropriate. But if in reality they are not, and the law still treats them as they are, it becomes inappropriate.’
