Research Paper on:
United States, United Kingdom, and Private Policing

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before there is little need for public police institutions. When one considers the extent to which criminal activity far outweighs law enforcements ability to maintain order, it is not  surprising to find citizens taking the law into their own hands by way of commercial security industry, the armed forces, local authorities, state departments and voluntary policing bodies (Button, 2002).  Private policing may have originated as a means by which to protect the citizenry over and above the limitations of governmental law enforcement, but even in contemporary society its  existence is met with a combination of expectancy and trepidation. "Those who argue against private policing often assume that it is only the police who ensure that laws are  observed at all, that there is a sharp demarcation between the policeman and the citizen. This disregards the role that individuals have always played in keeping order just by going  about their daily business" (Elliott, 1991, p. PG). II. THE GROWTH OF PRIVATE POLICING The notion of private policing has become a  necessary evil in todays ever-threatened global society; Britain and America have just stepped up its application over and above other nations. That criminal activity far surpasses law enforcements ability  to keep it in check is indicative of how vital private policing - "a complex of connections between formal and substantive powers, and between private and public activities, which the  sociology of policing has, by and large, failed to address (Johnston, 1992, p. 190) - has become as a viable alternative to help enhance an otherwise shorthanded guardian system.  However, as good as any given program might be, there are bound to be drawbacks that serve to impede the very objective it seeks to achieve. "There is an