QUALITY CRITERIA FOR THE PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENt
QUALITY CRITERIA FOR THE PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: In the past decades it is evident that the modern mega trends: globalization, urbanization, digitalization etc., and the new forms of security risks and threats had influenced and moderated the organization of state security. The increasing security risks driven by natural and geopolitical calamities have increased the role of private security services, vis àvis state security. Private security companies are recognized as a relevant non-state security actor and, active participant to complement the traditional (state) security constituents in providing security. Moreover, private security employees are part of the security continuum who have always complimented state security efforts, and this has become particularly the case in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, where PSS workers have stepped up, as frontline workers, to guarantee public safety and health. Private security provides security of individuals and property at private and commercial buildings, public spaces, events and provides protection of critical infrastructure. However, aiming at efficient and effective use of the full potential of the private security sector there still is a clear need for determination of the quality criteria for the private security that will consider both, the security concept and the corporate concept of the private security companies providing services and of companies’ with e in-house security. Hence, the main tendency of this article is to elaborate on the significance of defining quality criteria for the private security sector. The theoretical explication will cover the wider concept of private security with the definition of terms and meaning and current state in practice. The main focus will be to analysis of the quality criteria for the private security identified by the Confederation of European Private Security Services (CoESS) and Uni-Europa, i.e. private security employees training, recruitment and retention; security management; professional capacities of the company for providing private security; broader legal framework and special regulations and social responsibility. Moreover, the quality criteria will be elaborated within the existing challenges of the contemporary global and security environment. The final goal of this article will be to systematize the scientific knowledge in the field of quality of the private security.

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