Güvenlik Bilimleri Dergisi

Öz

ABSTRACT

Specialization for private security officers
is essential in terms of public safety. The public authority responsible for
private security services is empowered to make the necessary arrangements in
this respect in accordance with the public interest. Locations where security
services are provided by private security officers should be classified on the
basis of "service branch" and these local specialties should be
defined. Next, the curriculums to be used in order to gain specializations
specific to the service sector should be prepared for the duties to be assigned
with the titles of "specialist private security officer" in each
service branch. Because education is the first and most important means of
specialization. However, leaving curriculums to the initiative of the supply
actors in the private security services prevents them from attaining the aim of
increasing the quality of these services. Curriculums, related processes,
expertise requirements etc. should be institutionalized by legal arrangements. In
this framework this study focuses on the importance and benefits of providing
expertise in private security services, and presents a model suggestion for
training and qualification processes that can contribute to the
institutionalization of specialization.