THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM (COUNTERING THE TERRORIST THREAT)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61837/mbuir030225104bKeywords:
terrorism, terrorist threat, private security sector, private protection agencies, counterterrorismAbstract
Among the many challenges of security and threats that people of the modern society are facing, terrorism has emerged as one of the leading problems for all security structures and no country is immune to it. In addition to the government security agencies that are ready and mandated to actively oppose any security challenge, including terrorism, private agencies are also an unavoidable factor which deals with protection of facilities, spaces and people in them and are a part of the overall security system of a country. Irrespective of limitations in legal authorizations to perform their assigned work, private protection agencies - as the bearers of activities of the private sector security - are of particular importance for the overall security system because they have the necessary resources - human, technical and material – to be of invaluable help to the state security authorities for the prevention of any security threat, and that includes terrorism. Even though the private security sector is limited in its activities to a certain space/facility and cannot act outside of it, it can provide significant support to the government authorities in the prevention, suppression and thwarting of terrorist activities, but also in eliminating the consequences after an attack. Therefore, the private security sector is an unavoidable factor in combating this security phenomenon.
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