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Why Some Organisations Prefer Contract to In-house Security Staff

In: Crime at Work

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  • Mark Button

    (University of Portsmouth)

  • Bruce George MP

Abstract

This paper considers one of the main security strategies used by organisations to increase the risk to offenders: the employment of contract security officers. It explores briefly the structure of the contract guarding sector and then moves on to examine in depth the reasons for using contract security rather than inhouse. It shows that some of the reasons for choosing contract include: the cost benefits of doing so, the ability to hire expertise, the greater flexibility offered, compulsion, to transfer liabilities, the higher standards offered, the prestige and image of the contractor, and problems with in-house security. The chapter then considers the potential impact of statutory regulation on this sector. Different forms of regulation may affect the decision to use contract and in-house security, which may ultimately have an effect on the overall standards of the sector and therefore the risk to offenders. Finally, the paper offers some views on related issues that require further research and a perspective on the model of regulation that should be introduced by the British government.

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  • Mark Button & Bruce George MP, 1998. "Why Some Organisations Prefer Contract to In-house Security Staff," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Martin Gill (ed.), Crime at Work, chapter 0, pages 201-213, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37783-7_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230377837_14
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