ABSTRACT
In the last three decades, the policing and security roles undertaken by the private sector worldwide have expanded signicantly (Sarre & Prenzler, 2009). Private sector security personnel are no longer simply watchmen; they are now involved in a vast array of policing responsibilities, including traditional roles, such as surveillance, investigation, crowd control, prison escorts, court security, guarding, and patrolling; and they are also engaged in pro active crime prevention, risk management and assessment, weapons training, crime scene examination, forensic evidence gathering, information technology advice, high-tech systems development, and communications support. us a “hybrid” model of public-private policing is now rmly entrenched in many countries. For example, Lucia Zedner observes that in the United Kingdom (solely) publicly employed police
may come to be seen as an historical blip in a more enduring schema of policing because an array of activities [are now] undertaken by multiple private and public agencies, and individual and communal endeavours. (Zedner, 2006a, p. 81)
Introduction 75 Police and Security Cooperation in Australia: History and Expansion 77 Modern Drivers of Antiterrorism Cooperation 79 Methodology 80
Case Study One: Project Grin 81 Case Study Two: Qantas Security 82 Case Study ree: Eyes on the Street Program 83
Implications of the Findings 84 Conclusion 86 Endnotes 87 References 87
It should be noted that this trend to privatization in policing has not come about through the sale of government services. Rather, those involved in the worldwide (and rapidly growing) security market have invited private suppliers to enter the policing world and, in due course, the private people have been permitted to share functions with the government providers (Sarre & Prenzler, 2000). e private policing sector has now expanded to a point where the number of operatives and nancial turnover exceed that of the static or slightly increasing numbers and nancial turnover of the public sector entities (van Steden & Sarre, 2007). According to the IBISWorld Industry Report (2007), in 2005-2006 the security services industry contributed an estimated 1.36 billion AUD to the Australian economy, which represented 0.15% of the national GDP.
