Private Security

Studies

Ordered in reverse chronological order (most recent on top):

 

Why regulate manned private security?
Report published on February 1, 2008 by Jorma Hakala, Vice-President of the CoESS Working Committee Guarding and member of the Finish CoESS member federation, ASSI, on the reasons and requirements for private security regulation as expressed by representatives of governments, industry associations and academia. The report comprises a structured summary presentation of the 'reasons and goals' argumentation used by different interest groups to support statutory regulation of private manned security services.
- Availabe in English as a PDF File. [606 KB]

Facts and figures of the private security industry in Spain
Report published by APROSER, the Spanish private security association, member of CoESS, on 10 December 2007
- Available in Spanish as a PDF file. [3.7 MB]

The Regulation of Manned Private Security - A Transnational Survey of Structure and Focus.
- Available in English as a PDF file. [193 KB]

Development of a European Educational Toolkit for three Private Security Activities/Profiles : Mobile Patrolling - Alarm Response Centres - Airport Security
a publication developed with the financial support of the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (January 2007)
- Full text available in English [PDF, 11.534 KB (!)] and Romanian [text only, PDF 434 KB]

Overview of the legislations governing Cash in Transit (Private Security) in 10 new EU member states who joined EU on 1st May 2004 Final Report of a CoESS / UNI-Europa Joint Report (September 2006)
- Full text available in English, French and German [PDF, approx. 610 KB each]

Scope of analysis in view of the comparative study of Cash in Transit legislation within 25 eu member states
- Tables Cash in Transit legislation available in English (1.25 MB), French (1.35 MB) and German (1.35 MB). (zip files, containing 35 PDFs each).

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“Inventory and evaluation of private security sector contributions” (PDF, 240KB) - Research Project Assessing Organised Crime: testing the Feasibility of a Common European Approach in a Case Study of the Cigarette Black Market in the EU. The document assesses the (potential) role of the private security services for the gathering and processing of information of organised crime. (August 2005)

A comparative overview of the legislations governing the Cash in Transit private industry in 15 EU members - Final Report of a CoESS / UNI-Europa Joint Report (October 2004)

• Full text available in English, French and Spanish;
• Tables Cash in Transit legislation available in English, French and Spanish.

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Panoramic Overview: All information with regard to the legal, social and economic situation of the private security industry in each of the 25 EU Member States can be found in the following documents.

Full Text available in English:

• Panoramic Overview of the Private Security Industry in the 25 Member States of the European Union - Part 1 (PDF, 2247 KB)
• Panoramic Overview of the Private Security Industry in the 25 Member States of the European Union - Part 2 (PDF, 2282 KB)
• Panoramic Overview of the Private Security Industry in the 25 Member States of the European Union - Part 3 (PDF, 2005 KB)

Summaries available in Italian, Spanish, German, French, Danish and Romanian.

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European Training Manual. Preventing occupational hazards in the private security sector (manned guarding and surveillance services). (July 2004)

Full text available in English (PDF, 1826 KB), French (PDF, 1847 KB), and Hungarian (PDF, 2953 KB).

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Health and safety in the private security sector: identifying the risks (February 2004).

Full text available in English, German and Spanish.

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Code of conduct and ethics for the private security sector (July 2003).

Full text available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish.

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SPOT Private security and work organisation (March 2003).

• Final report in English.
• Country Reports in English available for Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom.

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A comparative overview of legislation governing the private security industry in the European Union - Final Report (2002):

• Full text available in English (PDF 172 KB), and French (PDF 291 KB).
• Summaries available (PDF) in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish

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Best Value Manual: A Manual for public authorities awarding contracts for guarding services (June 1999).

Full text available in Greek, German, French, Finnish, English, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Italian and Hungarian.

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European Vocational Training Manual for Basic Guarding.

Full text available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian (1999) and Dutch, Lithuanian, Finnish, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek, Danish (2004)

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