LAW AND PRIVATE POLICE

• NCJ Number: 147377
• Author(s): J S Kakalik; W J Bird; D C Brown; R E Denham; A V Friedman; S M Lorne; S M Mason; H I Saferstein; E R Wolff; M E Butler; P A Cathart; D S Eakeley; W L Fordon III; A M Katz; D M Schulte; M E Wald
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 67 pages
• Grant Number(s): NI-70-057
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice
• Corporate Author: Rand Corporation
• Sale Source: Rand Corporation; National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Focusing on the law as it relates to the private police industry, this report is one of five describing a 16-month study of the nature and extent of the private police industry in the United States, its problems, its present regulation, its benefits, its costs, and its risks to society.

Abstract

The analysis considers the sources of legal limitations upon private police activities and personnel, sources of legal powers, and specific legal problems raised by these activities and by the relationships between the users and providers of private security services. The legal doctrines governing particular security activities are also evaluated. Issues considered include investigatory functions such as searches of private property and access to public police information, law enforcement functions such as arrest and use of force, impersonation and confusion with public police, the use of firearms, the direction and control of traffic, and the legal relationships between the users and providers of private security services. 564 reference notes