Essays on Public Security

Question 1

1.1 In her taxonomy, Joh (2005) describes private policing as law enforcement activities offered through agencies owned and controlled by private individuals. That said, unlike their public counterparts, private police officers concentrate on property loss, preventive techniques, private justice, and safeguarding personal interests. As such, these entities mainly operate as parallel entities, each focusing on their individual duties in law enforcement. This taxonomy is both useful and an excellent beginning in the categorization of various forms of private policing as explained below. On the one hand, some of the existing classifications include publicly contracted, protective, intelligence, and corporate security ...

Introduction

Nowadays, both the public and private safety and security has been a major problem in most developing countries. We often blame the government for the lack of safety, effective police forces, as well as operational law enforcement systems that should cater the needs and security of the population. At times, even our police task forces are liable for the crimes, corruption, and the lack of leadership that the society experience under such kind of governance. A hundred percent public safety and security seemed to be unimaginable to achieve; however, with the right kind of police reforms and effective police ...

Terrorism is one of the variants of tactics of political struggle, associated with the use of ideologically motivated violence.

The essence of terrorism is violence with the intent to intimidate. The subject of terrorist violence – individuals or non-governmental organizations. The object of violence – the authorities in the face of the various civil servants or the society in the face of individual citizens (including foreigners or officials of other states). Also, private and public property, infrastructure and lifelines. The purpose of violence is to achieve desirable for terrorists, developments, revolutions, destabilization of society, war with a foreign country, independence of a particular territory, the fall of the prestige of power, political concessions from the authorities, etc. The definition of ...

The police force in the Republic of China is popularly known as the ‘people’s police agencies’ or the ‘public security agencies’. The Police Force was formed in October 1949 as the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The responsibility of MPS was for counter subversion, counterintelligence, surveillance, protection of military and economic installations. Other responsibilities include registration, routine police administration and investigation of criminal acts (Ebbe, 2000).

The overall structure of the criminal justice is entrenched in the constitution. At the top is the State Council (the central government). The second in command is the Ministry of Public ...

National security is the prime object and the most important purpose of government. Citizens get into a social contract to ensure that their life and property are safeguarded by the government. Public security is one of the most challenging issues that affect the governance of both western Nations and the developing countries. Without a peaceful and conducive environment the economy will not thrive, and the area will scare way investors. A case in point is Syria. When the Middle East country plunged into civil war, multinational corporations pulled out of the country. Syria is an illustration of a government that failed to ...

Private security is mostly associated with the modern age. However, the concept of private security dates back to over three hundred years ago. At the moment, private security occupies a central place in the security apparatus of the United States. Private security has been defined as an industry involved in the provision of the requisite personnel and equipment necessary for the prevention of loses occasioned by human error and emergencies, but with a view to making profits (Nalla, 2001). The major difference between private security system and the mainstream public security system usually availed by the government is that the former ...

United States and China

I. Legal System The United States criminal legal system is based on the British Common Law system. Common law refers to those laws that are created and imposed by judges in the absence of specific a specific code or applicable statute defining the law (LaFave, 2000). Accordingly, during the early years of the nation when a judge was faced with a criminal activity that was not covered by a statute, he would use precedent, or refer to the decisions of similar cases, for guidance. Absent statute and precedent, the judge would simple use his best legal, professional and personal judgment to make ...

Organized Crime in the United States and its impact to the US Criminal Justice System

The United States of America has its fair share of problems when it comes to maintaining national security and stability against international and domestic threats. The federal government has to contend to the threat of various actors wishing to destabilize the country either through fear or terror or through illicit activity that paralyzes the country. One of the most crucial threats the US government faces today are the transnational organized crime groups which endangers the country from within its borders and through the rest of the world. The problem with this threat is the fact most of these organize ...

Introduction

The western civilization has been fueled by the technological inventions that have flooded commodities in the market since mid-18th century. The Technological vibrancy of the west has been influenced by laws that seek to protect the intellectual property rights of the inventors and scientists. The British Statute of Anne 1710 was the first recorded copyright law in the world; it gave exclusive ownership rights to printers of books. The law prohibited the copying of books by other printers. With the development of modern technology the scope has been extended to motion pictures, maps and sound recording. Copyright laws have ...

Introduction

The government of USA is putting in every effort into ensuring security and safety of the country from crime and terrorism. The public agencies responsible for law enforcement continue engaging in their normal activities of preventing and responding to criminal activities. They are also aided by private security agencies, who engage in equally similar activities. In the US, the estimated number of private security entities is 90,000 with a total of 2 million officers in the service (Cooke, 2014). Private security service providers have been recognized for being the first individuals who respond to a security situation, for example, during ...

European Union Law on Free Movement of Goods, Customs Duties, and Internal Taxation

Qstn 1: An Italian measure banning the import of sheep from Germany and Austria where there have recently been outbreaks of the highly contagious Mutton Flu, a disease which could potentially be transmitted from animals to humans. Notably, the European Union boasts of its ability to react quickly to in response to disease outbreaks that may lead to further infection. As the world largest trade front, Pirker (2012) states that the Union has established measures that protect the nations’ livestock and humans from contracting diseases from export of animals and animal products. Measures include a harmonized surveillance among other controlled ...

These days, people are facing life difficulties that make them more vulnerable. Life requires a lot of risks to make a living and to fight against hunger. Although, there are many reasons for drug addiction, hard work these days is becoming a major cause for many people. Lots of abusers try to get money to buy drugs. Although, Saudi Arabia is a very religious and conservative country with a “dry law”, Saudi Arabians are keen on using whiskey and hashish. This is a wealthy nation, in which a certain percentage can easily afford it. Nevertheless, drugs should be illegal in the country to reduce the proportion ...

Philosophy

Morality is a very important concept in human life. It is a guiding principle on what is right and wrong. Without ethics, life can be so challenging because everyone will have to behave the way they want without thinking about the interests and welfare of others. In medicine, it is essential for each and every practitioner to comply with the standard ethical requirements expected of this profession. This should be done in compliance to the Hippocratic Oath which they commit themselves to, upon the completion of their training. Thus, it is true that without ethics, the medical practitioners will not act ...

Private security refers to an industry motivated by the making of profits to avail necessary personnel and equipment so as to prevent losses occasioned by human error or emergencies. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics defines private security companies as those that primarily engage in provision of guard and patrol services. Some of the services provided through private security include prevention of unauthorized entry, access control, theft and fire prevention, roving patrol and bodyguard services. In discharging these functions, private security plays the role of aiding in security especially where the security availed by the state is inadequate. ...

Abstract

The U.S position in respect to prestige, stature, reputation and respect has declined in a dramatic way especially in Latin America. To some extent, the weakening of this relationship can be associated with the economic competition that the United States has been facing from other fast developing and developed countries. The U.S military invasion of countries in Latin America leaves those countries more stable but weakens the relation U.S-Latin America relation. The economic gains that U.S has been obtaining in this region have reduced even with the policies that have established by the Whitehouse Occupants. The U.S needs to re-establish ...

Habeas Corpus, Explained

According to Fallon and Meltzer (2007), the writ of habeas corpus serves as a protection against unlawfully made arrests. The US Constitution states that it “shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it” (U.S. Const. art. I, § 9). Therefore, habeas corpus serves as a remedy against unwarranted arrests stated under the US Constitution and it shares relevant connections to other constitutional civil rights protections. The use of habeas corpus is highly relevant to other civil rights such as fair trial and due process. ...

Human trafficking is the second largest globally organized crime that occurs without most people realizing that it is happening. It refers to the illegal trade of humans involving the act of recruiting, and movement of individuals from one nation to another for exploitation purposes. Most individuals get into the trade through flattery or compulsory means, promised employment with better pay while others through the abduction and transportation to desired destinations where they undergo exploitation and used against their will. The main purposes of human trafficking entails forced labor, sexual exploitation, organ transplant, production, and trade of drugs. Declaration of ...

The paper is based on the article written by Ken Peak an Assistant Professor in the magazine The Police Chief of October 2012 with the titled, “community policing and CompStat: Merged or mutually exclusive?”. It is published monthly by the University of Nevada, Reno. The double terrorists attack on the government buildings i.e. the Pentagon House and the World Trade Center on 9th November 2001 changed the operations of the police in the United States of America. The government and communities realized the need to come up with new and sophisticated strategies to counter terrorist threats in the ...

Security is an important facet of the society. The maintenance of security has traditionally been viewed as the responsibility of the State. This means that most of the security firms and personnel within the State have been traditionally been controlled by the government. However, in recent times security threats have changed the conceptualization of security. In the traditional setting, security threats were viewed as being enemy countries and therefore security concerns were seen as a state versus state issue (Nemeth, 1995, p.27) The State was hence given the social contract to protect its own population from security threats that were ...

Prisons are perchance the most important instructions, second only to the court, with regards to the judicial system of any nation. Served with the chief duties of rehabilitation and punishment, there are a plethora of programs in use in the prisons to help them meet their mandate. However, it is a common occurrence that a good percentage of released prisoners always get rearrested for similar or variant crimes within three years of release. To this effect, a plethora of programs have always been devised to help in preventing released prisoners from reverting to crime (recidivate) with a good number of measures also taken with ...

Abstract

Hunan province is one of the largest provinces of china. It is a province endowed with many mineral resources. This region is characterized by intense Industrial activities. The Hunan province is plagued with several socioeconomic problems. These problems include pollution, unemployment, power shortages, health issues and drug abuse among others. The government of Hunan has put forward strategies and measures to counter these socioeconomic problems. The government has established ways of helping peasant workers to acquire employment. Laws and regulations are also put in place to deal with pollution and drug abuse. Hunan government has expanded the power production capacity ...