This document analyzes the private security sector in Brazil, focusing on the motivations behind its growth and the regulatory framework. It discusses how private security responsibilities have shifted from the public to private sector due to economic incentives. This has led to significant changes in policing regulations and jurisdiction. The private security industry has grown linearly since 1969, especially in the 1990s, with more companies, guards, and electronic security technology. However, data on its size is limited and excludes illegal operations. The key drivers of growth are seen as increased crime, perceptions of violence and insecurity, and changes in urban development and public/private space usage.
El crecimiento de la seguridad privada ha crecido en muchos países en pleno siglo XX, donde muestra importantes cuestiones sobre la responsabilidad del Estado en relación con la seguridad. En Brasil, donde el crecimiento es muy importante principalmente en las últimas dos décadas, no es posible conocer sobre la dimensión real del sector y sobre las condiciones que llevan a cabo este aspecto y expansión. Teniendo en consideración criterios observados en la literatura internacional y los datos en relación con este sector, este trabajo analiza el marco regulador brasileño, mostrando las implicaciones acerca de algunas de las características más problemáticas.
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El crecimiento de la seguridad privada ha crecido en muchos países en pleno siglo XX, donde muestra importantes cuestiones sobre la responsabilidad del Estado en relación con la seguridad. En Brasil, donde el crecimiento es muy importante principalmente en las últimas dos décadas, no es posible conocer sobre la dimensión real del sector y sobre las condiciones que llevan a cabo este aspecto y expansión. Teniendo en consideración criterios observados en la literatura internacional y los datos en relación con este sector, este trabajo analiza el marco regulador brasileño, mostrando las implicaciones acerca de algunas de las características más problemáticas.
Third plenum report by China Trade Winds - extractslevdlc
Here is few extracts of the final part of our report “ Xi Jinping, the new era ” following the highly-anticipated Third Plenum of the XVIII. Congress (from 9 to 12th of November 2013).
It was the missing piece of the puzzle of this country’s leadership until 2022, end of the second five-year legislature under Xi Jinping.
The aim of this brief study is to analyze the results of the Plenum, its significance, and last but not least, the style of this new leadership.
For further details, contact marketing@chinatradewinds.com
BCJ 4385, Workplace Security 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VI
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Evaluate security problems within private and public institutions and cultivate applicable
security measures.
2. Analyze contemporary security investigation tactics.
3. Examine intellectual property and security measures taken to protect business intelligence and
proprietary information.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 9:
Investigations, Intelligence Operations, and Reporting
Chapter 10:
Institutional Security, Disaster Recovery, and Executive Protection
Unit Lesson
General Overview
When people hear the term investigation the first thing that comes to mind is what they saw on a dramatized
crime show or TV program. In actuality there are several types of investigations. There are human resource
investigations that investigate issues related to employee backgrounds, workplace violence, employment
discrimination, worker compensation, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, substance abuse, and wrongful
termination. There are also personal injury and property damage investigations, and criminal investigations
which include undercover investigations. Another aspect of criminal investigations is business crime
investigations which involves investigations concerning crimes committed against businesses by employees
(e.g., fraud and embezzlement), crimes committed against businesses by outsiders (e.g., arson and robbery),
and crimes committed by individuals on behalf of businesses (e.g., tax evasion and commercial bribery).
Information collected in investigations is derived from various sources which “include physical evidence,
specialized databases, victims, witnesses, suspects, records, informants, and the Internet” (Ortmeier, 2013, p.
212). Once information is gathered it is then analyzed. The analysis of physical evidence is associated with
forensic science and criminalistics. Such analyses are traditionally conducted in the laboratory. DNA testing is
one of several analysis techniques used by forensic scientists. Other techniques include psychological
profiling, anthropological strategies, forensic accounting, biology, chemistry, ballistics testing, and many more.
Every investigation is governed by a code of conduct. Both private and public law enforcement and security
agencies are governed by investigative statutes which govern overt and covert investigative techniques (e.g.,
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of
1988). While the fourth amendment to the Constitution only restricts government conduct, private and
nongovernment employees may also have an expectation of privacy if their employers knowingly or knowingly
create an expectation of privacy among their employees.
Intelligence operations are not limited to criminal investigations. They also include business intelligence
operations, which is also ...
BCJ 4385, Workplace Security 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VI
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Evaluate security problems within private and public institutions and cultivate applicable
security measures.
2. Analyze contemporary security investigation tactics.
3. Examine intellectual property and security measures taken to protect business intelligence and
proprietary information.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 9:
Investigations, Intelligence Operations, and Reporting
Chapter 10:
Institutional Security, Disaster Recovery, and Executive Protection
Unit Lesson
General Overview
When people hear the term investigation the first thing that comes to mind is what they saw on a dramatized
crime show or TV program. In actuality there are several types of investigations. There are human resource
investigations that investigate issues related to employee backgrounds, workplace violence, employment
discrimination, worker compensation, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, substance abuse, and wrongful
termination. There are also personal injury and property damage investigations, and criminal investigations
which include undercover investigations. Another aspect of criminal investigations is business crime
investigations which involves investigations concerning crimes committed against businesses by employees
(e.g., fraud and embezzlement), crimes committed against businesses by outsiders (e.g., arson and robbery),
and crimes committed by individuals on behalf of businesses (e.g., tax evasion and commercial bribery).
Information collected in investigations is derived from various sources which “include physical evidence,
specialized databases, victims, witnesses, suspects, records, informants, and the Internet” (Ortmeier, 2013, p.
212). Once information is gathered it is then analyzed. The analysis of physical evidence is associated with
forensic science and criminalistics. Such analyses are traditionally conducted in the laboratory. DNA testing is
one of several analysis techniques used by forensic scientists. Other techniques include psychological
profiling, anthropological strategies, forensic accounting, biology, chemistry, ballistics testing, and many more.
Every investigation is governed by a code of conduct. Both private and public law enforcement and security
agencies are governed by investigative statutes which govern overt and covert investigative techniques (e.g.,
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of
1988). While the fourth amendment to the Constitution only restricts government conduct, private and
nongovernment employees may also have an expectation of privacy if their employers knowingly or knowingly
create an expectation of privacy among their employees.
Intelligence operations are not limited to criminal investigations. They also include business intelligence
operations, which is also ...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS FOR CRIME PREDICTION IN URBAN SPACESmlaij
This work presents research based on evidence with neural networks for the development of predictive
crime models, finding the data sets used are focused on historical crime data, crime classification, types of
theft at different scales of space and time, counting crime and conflict points in urban areas. Among some
results, 81% precision is observed in the prediction of the Neural Network algorithm and ranges in the
prediction of crime occurrence at a space-time point between 75% and 90% using LSTM (Long-ShortSpace-Time). It is also observed in this review, that in the field of justice, systems based on intelligent
technologies have been incorporated, to carry out activities such as legal advice, prediction and decisionmaking, national and international cooperation in the fight against crime, police and intelligence services,
control systems with facial recognition, search and processing of legal information, predictive
surveillance, the definition of criminal models under the criteria of criminal records, history of incidents in
different regions of the city, location of the police force, established businesses, etc., that is, they make
predictions in the urban context of public security and justice. Finally, the ethical considerations and
principles related to predictive developments based on artificial intelligence are presented, which seek to
guarantee aspects such as privacy, privacy and the impartiality of the algorithms, as well as avoid the
processing of data under biases or distinctions. Therefore, it is concluded that the scenario for the
development, research, and operation of predictive crime solutions with neural networks and artificial
intelligence in urban contexts, is viable and necessary in Mexico, representing an innovative and effective
alternative that contributes to the attention of insecurity, since according to the indices of intentional
homicides, the crime rates of organized crime and violence with firearms, according to statistics from
INEGI, the Global Peace Index and the Government of Mexico, remain in increase.
Artificial Intelligence Models for Crime Prediction in Urban Spacesmlaij
This work presents research based on evidence with neural networks for the development of predictive crime models, finding the data sets used are focused on historical crime data, crime classification, types of theft at different scales of space and time, counting crime and conflict points in urban areas. Among some results, 81% precision is observed in the prediction of the Neural Network algorithm and ranges in the prediction of crime occurrence at a space-time point between 75% and 90% using LSTM (Long-ShortSpace-Time). It is also observed in this review, that in the field of justice, systems based on intelligent technologies have been incorporated, to carry out activities such as legal advice, prediction and decisionmaking, national and international cooperation in the fight against crime, police and intelligence services, control systems with facial recognition, search and processing of legal information, predictive surveillance, the definition of criminal models under the criteria of criminal records, history of incidents in different regions of the city, location of the police force, established businesses, etc., that is, they make predictions in the urban context of public security and justice. Finally, the ethical considerations and principles related to predictive developments based on artificial intelligence are presented, which seek to guarantee aspects such as privacy, privacy and the impartiality of the algorithms, as well as avoid the processing of data under biases or distinctions. Therefore, it is concluded that the scenario for the development, research, and operation of predictive crime solutions with neural networks and artificial intelligence in urban contexts, is viable and necessary in Mexico, representing an innovative and effective alternative that contributes to the attention of insecurity, since according to the indices of intentional homicides, the crime rates of organized crime and violence with firearms, according to statistics from INEGI, the Global Peace Index and the Government of Mexico, remain in increase.
"CSIS is able to participate in close collaboration with the private sector on a legal
and practical level. First and most significantly, the CS1S Act, developed in a different
era with a different threat environment, expressly does not permit the sharing of
intelligence with the private sector. Although operational policies have been developed
to govern the sharing of information with the private sector."
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Wow—We are here already. The eight weeks goes really fast.
What’s next for law enforcement? I included the article Toward a New Professionalism in Policing, because it outlines Travis’s view of where policing is going: (1) Increased Accountability, (2) Legitimacy, (3) Continuous Innovation, and (4) National Coherence. (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/232359.pdf) I remember reading this article in March 2011, and wondering how these themes would play out throughout the country. There is no question we are in an era of increasing accountability for the police and the justice system as a whole. We covered accountability in this course extensively.
Additionally, we spent a week covering the need for increased police legitimacy and there continues to be significant growth in this area. In fact, the President’s 21st Century Policing Task Force report spoke directly to the need for increased legitimacy and provided clear recommendations. Copy this link to web browser: (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/taskforce_finalreport.pdf). Re-building trust in policing is vital for real progress of criminal justice in the United States, and there are continuous innovations being developed to lower crime and build trust with the community. The law enforcement practices that rely on high rates of arrest and stiff punishments are being abandoned across this country. This is especially true for drug use and low level crimes. Hopefully, the innovations of restorative justice and substance abuse treatment continue to improve to meet the increased need to handle these low level criminal offenses without courtroom based interventions. Finally, National Coherence is occurring throughout the country through increased establishment of best practices/standards for law enforcement and the increased use of regional law enforcement task force groups.
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· Police must function in accordance with the law.
· Police conduct must be regulated by a professional code of conduct.
· The highest priority of policing is the protection of human life.
· Police must serve the public and are accountable to the public and must communicate their action to the public to establish the legitimacy of police action.
· A central focus of policing is the prevention of crime.
· Police must act in such a way as to respect human rights.
· Police must act in a nondiscriminatory manner. (Text book, page 353)
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1. THE PRIVATE SECURITY IN BRAZIL: SOME ASPECTS RELATED TO THE MOTIVATIONS,
REGULATION AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SECTOR
André Zanetic
ABSTRACT
The growth of private security verified in many countries in the middle of twentieth century displays
important questions about state responsibility in relation to the security. In Brazil, where the growth
is very significant mainly in the last two decades, not much is possible to know about the real
dimension of the sector and about the conditions that carried out this appearance and expansion.
Taking into consideration approaches observed in the international literature and the data relative to
this sector, this work analyze the Brazilian regulatory framework, showing the implications about
some more problematic features.
Key-words: Private security; policing; crime; regulation.
INTRODUCTION
There has been a boom in several different countries, as from the middle of the 20th century, in the
activities of private security services. This raises serious questions as to the responsibility of the
State for security, as to the mechanisms for the regulation and control of these services and their
social, political and economic impact. In Brazil, where the most notable growth in these activities
has taken place over the last two decades, little is known regarding the true dimensions of the
sector, or as to the way in which the activities function or their impact on crime or in terms of the
feeling of security thus engendered.
From this context, important changes are happening due to the transferring of the responsability of
the security from the public sector to the private sector. These changes has reflected, especially, an
economic logic of the expansion of this kind of services, which is creating important changes in the
regulatory framework, in the authorization and provision of the policing and in the spaces under
jurisdiction of the police.
Since their official beginnings in 1969, the private security services have presented linear growth in
this country. Their main period of expansion has occurred since the 90s, and has been
characterized by the increasing number of private security companies, of the number of watchmen
on the streets and the evident development of the electronic security device industry. There has
been a similar growth in the number of related training courses, of firms dedicated to the transport
of values, as well as a proliferation of unofficial security companies and of electronic security
services.
These changes have bringing some important questions that have been discussed between
researchers, policy makers and society in general: In what way does the expansion of these private
security services affect the exercise of the individual rights of the users of the areas under the
surveillance of those companies (factories, company offices, organs of government administration
and semi-public spaces such as shopping malls, residential estates and others)? What is the
relationship between the private security companies and the public in semi-public spaces? From the
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2. point of view of public security, what is the cost/benefit ratio regarding the sharing of responsibility
for the policing of the areas and installations with private firms? More private security means less
crime for society in general, or only for those for pay directly for these services? Does the increase
in the activities of the private security services constitute a new threat to the rights of less favored
groups in such a profoundly socially differentiated society as we have in Brazil? What is the effect of
private security on the public‟s sense of insecurity?
In order to discuss some of these questions, this article has two central issues as a centre of the
analysis: the spread of private security, not only in terms of its size (in number of companies,
officials and segments), but mainly about the assumptions and motivations of the spread of this
services; and the regulatory framework that gives the regulation, control and supervision of the
sector, paying special attention to the social implications regarding to some of the most important
features.
THE SPREAD OF PRIVATE SECURITY
Only to locate the general set of the private security industry, the services that are officially allowed
to operate are compounds:
1. By companies selling services of surveillance, patrolling or escorting;
2. By departments and divisions of internal security created into companies, institutions and other
public or private spaces (which is named “in house security”); and also
3. By companies that offer training to professionals who work in the area of security.
Officially, there are six distinct segments in this area: Surveillance; Transport of Values; Security
Personnel; Training Course; Armed escort; and In house Security. Beyond these segments defined
by the law, it is also important to emphasize that the evolution of technology and social dynamics
have changed very quickly the possibilities of protection. So, there is today a lot of new equipment
for prevention, like the great variety of equipments of electronic security.
While private security grows linearly in the country since its official appearance in 1969, there are
some important gaps related to the numbers that represent the dimensions of the sector,
particularly with regard to the number of existing guards.
According to the Federal Police Department, which is formally responsible for the authorization,
supervision and control of the sector, at the end of 2005 the country had about 1.28 million of
private guards officially registered. Meanwhile, according to the National Federation of Enterprises
of Private Security and Transport of Values - FENAVIST, considering the most common areas of
activity of private security - surveillance and in house security, there are 557.5 thousands of private
guards in the same year.
While data from the DPF consider all registered professionals, including those who were dismissed
from their jobs, the data of FENAVIST consider only the professionals who are actually in operation,
thus representing a more realistic estimate. The difference in the data shows, therefore,
unemployment and the high turnover of professionals in this sector, which is marking its low
professionalization in a general way.
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3. Both sources, however, presents only the formal universe of private security, excluding therefore
the entire numbers represented by the illegal universe of companies, like collective groups that act
outside the law and police which have worked as private guards (which is also illegal in Brazil). By
comparison, in 2003, according to the Ministry of Justice, the contingent of public security forces
was about 506,411 people.
Despite important gaps to be filled with regard to the organization of such information, the rapid
expansion of the sector is significantly convincingly. According to the literature and other available
information on the sector, attention should be called to three aspects which may be seen as the
main factors leading to the growth of the security market: i) the increase in criminality (especially in
the specialization of criminal activities); ii) the perception of violence and the increase in insecurity,
and iii) the changes in the use of the urban space and the circulation of the population in the great
cities.
The development of urban and of corporative crime, as also the perception of violence and the
increase in insecurity as from the 80s are themes frequently referred to in the academic literature
specializing in the field of crime (Kant de Lima, Misse e Miranda, 2000). In the Latin-American
context the decade of the 80s was characterized by the epidemic proportions of the increase in
cases of murder, by the increase in violence associated with criminal action, by the intensification of
corporate crime and also by the increasing awareness of violence and crime.
Seeing these points more closely and reviewing some relevant data on these issues, it was
possible to identify some fundamental processes responsible for the expansion of private security.
Besides the development of urban crime and the perception of violence, factors that are more
present in the literature, there are at least three other key:
- Firstly, the development of new patterns of trade, housing, work and leisure, with the emergence
of large private spaces open to the public (such as shopping malls, cinemas, nightclubs, stadiums,
etc.) and the vast spread of residential condominiums, which require large private investment in
security.
- Secondly, the large growth of the safety business, which relates primarily to the specialization of
crime and can be seen on the intense specialization of resources and security technologies used in
industrial and commercial centers.
- Thirdly, the fact that the public sector is one of the main contractors of private security services,
concentrating about 40% of guards hired.
Thus, according to other data of the National Federation of Private Security Companies and
Transport of values – FENAVIST, on the year 2005, the public sector, the banks, factories and the
services sector together account for 86,1% of the watchmen hired in 2005. The public sector
accounts for 38.3% of the hiring of guards, followed by banks, with 21.4%, other private sector
companies, with 13.9%, industries, with 13.7%, and finally the services sector, with 12.7% (among
the service sector are included residential condominiums, 4%, shopping malls, 3.2%, hospitals and
laboratories, 2,3%, schools and educational institutions, 1.8%, and business condominiums, 1.5% -
related to the total contracts).
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4. Another relevant issue is that the security features used individually (or residentially), according with
some victimization surveys, are effectively equipments consumed by a considerably smaller portion
of the population of large cities, contrary to what might think.
The most important question that arises of these observations is that they seem to contradict the
view of the concentration of such services in large homes and condominiums, as pointed by most of
the Brazilian literature, which characterized this process as the existence of a trend of dominant
groups to the gradual isolation of the poorest parts of society. In summary, beyond the increase in
crime and in the feeling of insecurity, private security has as the presuppositions of its expansion
the existence of new patterns of the use of and circulation of the population in the urban space
which has motivated the creation of spaces under surveillance for which reinforced full-time security
is felt to be desirable.
Although this aspect may have been understood as the occupation, by private security activities, of
spaces whose responsibility pertains to the public sector, little comment has been made on the
presence of the new security resources as a need created by the multiplication of the number of
these spaces, where, despite their belonging to the jurisdiction of the State, the responsibility for the
security has been attributed to the owners.
Thus, contrary to the image disseminated by the means of communication, and shared by some
researchers, who have dealt with the problem (Caldeira, 2000; Kowarick, 2001), private security
activities have grown mainly in the corporate sectors and public institutions, to a much greater
extent than in contracts with residential estates or in individual expenses with protection resources
and services.
In view of these new needs, private security firms offer their services to attend to the existing and
more and more frequent social demands of our contemporary world, particularly in the large urban
centers, in which they have taken on functions more and more similar to those of the public security
services, thus raising important and problematic questions regarding the regulation of the sector.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
With regard to the regulating of the private security, the main finding was that, contrary to what we
might expect, the model that exists in Brazil is very similar to the existing regulatory models for the
sector in several contexts that we‟ve found in the international literature. If we hoped to find an
anomaly in the juridical organization of private security, given the rapid proliferation occurred in the
last twenty years, what we find, by contrast, was a model that keeps the key attributes in terms of
norms and international standards.
As in most countries studied, in which the specific regulatory model of the security services has
been organized by any government agency in the area of justice or security, in Brazil the regulation
is conducted by the Ministry of Justice through the Federal Police Department.
The profile of safety regulation in Brazil allows consider the model existent in the country as
comprehensive, but with low regulatory capacity. That is a model where the state not only regulates
industry workers, but also introduces substantive regulation to increase the standard and quality of
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5. services, create safeguards to protect the public and to protect national firms from foreign
competition.
Despite the gradual expansion of the scope of the model, Brazil has a great weakness in the
operation of its regulatory activity on the control and supervision of the sector in its various
segments. The problematic characteristics are not a few, and range from problems related to the
doubtful practical results, engendered by the legal structure of security regulations, to the absence
of a qualified structure, especially about investments in human and technological resources, on the
part of the organs responsible. It has leading to serious challenges concerning the efficacy of the
services, constitutional safeguards and the guarantee of citizens´ rights.
Among these problems, we can emphasize: the spread of illicit businesses, which represent a major
problem both for the safety of the population as to the business of regulated companies; and the
issue of lack of training and qualification of guards, generated by the difficulty in regulating and
efficient control of the activity, which created, at the beginning, a market of low professionalism,
education and income
CONCLUSION
This information shows some points that deserve attention. Beyond of give new contours to the
complex demands by the existing security services, where everyone seems to express concern
about the issue, also provide important clues about the various aspects that arise from the question
of private security. The accurate understanding of the allocation of resources and specific forms of
action for private services for the protection is necessary to face challenges related to the sector,
constituting itself as one of the dimensions upon which one should focus on the research and
actions related to the topic.
These challenges relate, on the one hand, the guarantees of rights with respect to services, in
particular against arbitrariness of the firms and their employees, and the way it gives the
relationship with the public. On the other hand, challenges are related to the quality and efficiency
of such services, with special attention to its impact in preventing crime, the gains obtained by
contractors and the general public and the possibilities of collaboration between public and private
forces, on which very little is known.
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