ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Australian Federal Police, Counter-Terrorism, Forensic Science
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A number of factors have been suggested to explain the rise and expansion of private policing in recent years. Property, securing information in the context of the newer communication technologies, and acting as personal body guards. Importantly, private policing is intrinsically linked to user-pays market forces. Accordingly, while public police are expected to act in the public interest, private security is expected to act in the private interest of its clients" (wilson et al. Not surprisingly, these differences in objectives give rise to major questions regarding training, activities and accountability of each form of policing, as well as how each intersects and communicates with the other. Funding for these services comes almost exclusively from state and territory government budgets, with some specific purpose grants provided by the commonwealth. Personnel are divided appropriately to the most effective position - traffic and operations support (e. g. traffic support and protective security) research) state emergency responses) internal investigations (e. g. internal security and internal investigations)
