Private Security Exam 1 Questions With
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What is Private Security? - answer✔a for-profit industry that provides personnel, equipment, and
procedures to prevent losses caused by human error, emergencies, disasters, or criminal actions.
What do consumers seek protection against? - answer✔man-made and natural risks
What is the emphasis on in private security? - answer✔man-made risks such as theft, fraud,
accidents, and employee disloyalty.
What does private security provide? - answer✔a stable, safe environment for people to work and
visit.
how many phases are there of private security? - answer✔four
first phase - answer✔individuals or small groups come together to find collective security to
protect individual needs
second phase - answer✔they realize that they needed rules and laws to maintain safety and
security
third phase - answer✔they discovered that some community members would not obey the rules
fourth phase - answer✔a means to compel the observance of rules was established
why did past civilizations fail - answer✔because there were no police, only the rulers army that
would come in after there was already a major problem
How would ancient people see protection? - answer✔by moving onto cliffs and into caves
What protected water or access to water? - answer✔boats or drawbridges
What protected castles - answer✔moats or gates
What was security sought through - answer✔isolation, increasing visibility, and limiting access
statute of westminster - answer✔formalized the duty of all citizens of England to act on behalf of
the community by practicing criminal justice and apprehending offenders
Watch and ward - answer✔provided town watchmen to patrol the city during the night to
supplement the constable
hue and cry - answer✔if anyone resisted capture b the watchmen they would cry out and the
citizens were expected to assist in their capture
assize of arms - answer✔require men ages 15 to 60 to keep a weapon in his home to help keep
the peace
Henry Fielding - answer✔a lawyer who became Chief Magistrate of Bow Street
What did Henry Fielding fight for? - answer✔reform and defied current laws by releasing
prisoners convicted of only petty crimes and found alternatives to the death penalty
What is Henry Fielding best known for? - answer✔establishing the Bow Street Runners
Bow Street Runners - answer✔originally 6 honest citizens that Fielding chose to form a
volunteer amateur police force
What did the Bow Street Runners later become? - answer✔the first detective agency in England
What was Sir Robert Peele? - answer✔a home secretary
Who said "The art of crime, if it may be so called, has increased faster than the art of detection" -
answer✔Sir Robert Peele
what was the first official police force? - answer✔The metropolitan police of London
Who was often targets of threat? - answer✔stage coaches carrying money, goods, and travelers
What two companies were created to protect stage coaches east of the Missouri River? -
answer✔American Express
Who created the American Express - answer✔Henry Wells and William Fargo
Where did American Express work? - answer✔east of the Missouri river
Where did Wells Fargo work? - answer✔west of the Mississippi river
Why was it hard to protect on railroads? - answer✔railroads passed through numerous states and
jurisdictions.
What resulted in response to thefts on railroads? - answer✔Railroad police
Allan Pinkerton - answer✔a key figure in establishing the railroad police and private, contract
security forces
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