Modern society often faces 3Cs: change, competition, and customer. The main issue of today's police science study, therefore, circles around how public police effectively cope with the radically changed environment. As one of the workable and appealin...
Modern society often faces 3Cs: change, competition, and customer. The main issue of today's police science study, therefore, circles around how public police effectively cope with the radically changed environment. As one of the workable and appealing policy tools to reform the police, the privatization has been not only strongly supported in terms of a theoretical study, but also widely used in practice all over the world. The privatization can be seen on the two perspectives. One is political, the other practical. This study examines on the very practical one, how contracting out, most widely used as the privatization alternatives, is perceived and put into practiced in the field of police services.
However, Policing has been widely regarded as an exclusively public-sector activity conducted by sworn officer, but a large and increasing share of the aggregate demand for public safety and security is being handled by the private sector. This study is intended to examine recent shifts toward privatization of policing. It focuses on the contents and limits of the shifts, their advantages and danger, and their effects. Although some people regard police services as inappropriate for privatization, most everyone else have persuasively considered that many police services are not public goods or, at least, not pure public goods.
This study is basically aimed at enhancing public police productivity and customer satisfaction through the adoption of result-oriented management system.
We can consider that there are three types of privatization with respect to policing, that is, user-financed police services, contracting out, and some degree of service shedding. And also we can not help paying attention to the major barriers to police privatization include concern about control and accountability, union opposition, equity, free-ride, attitudes of police officer, legitimacy, and legal restrictions.
Nowadays there has been little progress in privatizing police services. So this study also aimed at minimizing the potentially harmful aspects of privatization and also try to find ways to clarify roles and improve coordination among the public, private components of policing. This study concludes with a look to the future of privatization, including an identification of critical issues to this current shifts. In conclusion, the weighing of equity and legitimacy against utilitarian aspects of privatization is not a matter of either public or private decision making alone.
As society changes, so must policing. Acceptable solutions to satisfying the public's needs for security are bound to consist of a widely varied mix of public and private alternatives. And it is needed to enhance the ability of police and private to accomplish their primary mission, to serve and protect the public.
This study suggests as follows: The success in contracting-out is highly dependent
the success of privatization of police services is highly dependent on the higher competition, the effective prevention of the contractor's opportunistic behaviour, the increased rationality of decision-making, the appropriate watch-dog role of relative committee to the contractors, the higher cost-efficiency, the lower resistance, the higher measurability of outcomes, and on the higher spill-over effect in discontinued services when the services are stopped to be supplied with.