Identifying the challenge in private security

Identifying the challenge in private security
The private security is a traditional occupation whose primary objective is to provide security to firms, individuals, institutions either through the use of technology or carrying out manual checkups. Today, private security is typically used in very many places, by people and organizations. Apart from protection of property, various firms use the private security services to conduct investigations and to protect the workers among other roles
Challenge
One main issue in facing the private security sector is the conflict that exists between the private security and the government law enforcers.
Abosang et al.,( 2015) states that there exists a recurrent conflict between the private security and the department that enforces the public law. Even if there is a need for the two sectors to cooperate, there is a great rivalry between the two groups and no group entirely trusts the other. According to (Aranas, 2012), the challenges the difficulties that exist can be traced to a few factors
One major factor is the undefined roles and responsibilities more so the private security. The public law enforcing sector is unfamiliar with the many sets of functions within the private security sector or with the specialists and technicians that perform these roles. It results in role conflict. In many cases, the public law enforcers have petite experience, and they lack specialized skills. Due to their limited knowledge, they make a lot of assumptions during their operations. This unfamiliarity results to mistrust and lack of respect between the two groups. The public law enforcers see the private security officers as ineffective in crime prevention, and crime mitigation functions.
Another possible reason could be the competition that exists between the two entities. As stated in by (Rojec, 2012) the key the collaboration between the two groups is a major hitch, owing to mistrust, lack of information sharing, and misinformation. The law enforcers feel that the officers in the private entity lack the necessary training and are a major challenge in the security forces.  On the other hand, the private security guards feel that the police officers have limited knowledge on dealing with the private security and therefore fail to appreciate the role played by individual officers to combat crime.
As a solution to this problem, both entities are responsible for sharing their knowledge and teaching each other on their knowledge. As noted in the 2004 National Policy Summit, both entities perform similar law enforcement conference and hence it is easy for them to train together. If the push and pull that exists between the two security groups will not be resolved, there will be anarchy and people will be vulnerable to attack. Both private security and public law enforcers work for the good of the people and therefore the people will be affected by the existing conflicts.  One approach is to have both groups share information and even attend similar training programs.
It is also important that they have face to face meetings from time to time. The growth in the private security has provided a ready workforce that can be outsourced to beef up security force when the situation demands. However, the government is rarely concerned about the nation’s capacity to produce such highly trained and qualified security force. On the other hand, such private security workers are never monitored and are left to follow orders from their employers. It is necessary to have armed people under government oversight to help control and monitor the use of firearms. Drucker, (2012).
References
Abosag, Ibrahim, Dorothy Aiwan Yen, and Caroline Tynan. "The dark side of business relationships: An overview." The Dark Side of CRM: Customers, Relationships and Management (2015).
Aranas, P. F. (2012). Smokescreen: The US, NATO and the Illegitimate Use of Force. Algora Publishing.
Drucker, P. (2012). Managing in the next society. Routledge.
Rojek, J., Alpert, G., & Smith, H. (2012). The utilization of research by the police. Police practice and research, 13(4), 329-341.