Diversified, essentially privatised, policing options are expanding daily in modern
societies. They have become available to, and are being accessed by, individuals,
community groups and governments on a regular basis. While this dissertation
examines the phenomenon of private policing in Australia generally, its task, more
specifically, is to document and review the laws that govern, shape and make
accountable private policing operations and activities.
Chapter 1 reviews the origins and manifestations of contemporary shifts to privatised
models of policing. Chapter 2 examines models of relationships between public and
private personnel, and the various methods of accountability that may serve to govern
the activities of the latter. Chapters 3 to 8 explore and explain the applicable laws
that inform, shape and govern private policing generally. What this examination
reveals is that "private police" are empowered by a multitude of common law and
legislative principles, along with a mosaic of diverse and semi-structured rules not
necessarily designed for this specific purpose. One quickly finds that the laws that
permit, facilitate, regulate and manage private manifestations of policing do not fall
within easily discernible legal parameters.
Finally, Chapter 9 provides a summary of the dissertation, together with some
general thoughts concerning the effectiveness and appropriateness of the law as a
vehicle for bringing about the desired goals, namely effective policing that provides
appropriate outcomes for victims, suspects, private personnel, public police and the
general public alike.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219310 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Sarre, Warick T., n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Law |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Warick T. Sarre |
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