| North Carolina has company police[1] that are required to go through the same state police academy training as all other officers. This seems to be one of the fairest models amongst the states for private police. I first found out about this at the famous Biltmore Estate where they have their own company police dept. It made sense when explained that the estate is 8000+ acres and it could take 30+ mins for the nearest deputy to respond and find where they were needed. The company police are already on site and know the estate in and out. In almost all states there are private police statues for rail roads, universities, FedEx[2], etc. Of course every government agency or authority wants it's own police force leading to things like FBI Police[3] or Georgia World Congress Center Authority Police[4]. It seems clear to me that any time you have a large private space, be it a mall, theme park, college campus, etc., there will be need for private police. What happens when there is no company police statute is that businesses hire off-duty local police, leading to things like the NYPD Paid Detail Unit[5]. It's far more worrying to me to have public police working off duty for private interests, than having private police who's jurisdiction are limited to their private property. [1] http://www.ncdoj.gov/getdoc/cda6467e-77ce-4f5e-bb46-502e15c7...
[2] http://www.semissourian.com/story/132255.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Police
[4] http://www.gwcc.com/about/Safety.aspx
[5] https://www.nycpba.org/archive/nydn/03/nydn-030810-ot.html |