ASIS International - ANSWERProfessional organization of private security professionals
Bow Street Runners - ANSWERPrivate investigative unit formed by Henry Fielding in mid-1700s in England
Certified Protection Professional - ANSWERProfessionals certification awarded to security professionals...
ASIS International - ANSWERProfessional organization of private security professionals
Bow Street Runners - ANSWERPrivate investigative unit formed by Henry Fielding in mid-1700s in
England
Certified Protection Professional - ANSWERProfessionals certification awarded to security
professionals by ASIS international
Minimum Standards or Guidelines - ANSWEREfforts to increase the professionalization of private
security employees by requiring them to meet specific standards prior to employment.
Moonlighting - ANSWERWhen police officers work in private security jobs during their off-duty hours
Ethics - ANSWERThe practical, normative study of the rightness and wrongness of human conduct.
Ethics, Codes, or values statements - ANSWERFormal statements of businesses or organizations
representing their ethical and values standards
Hallcrests Reports - ANSWERThe first comprehensive studies of the US private security industry.
Industrial Defense Program - ANSWERFederal program established in 1952 to oversee, advise, and
assist defense-related facilities; now known as the National Industrial Security Program
National Industrial Security Program - ANSWERFederal program established in 1952 to oversee,
advise, and assist defense-related facilities, formerly known as the National Industrial Defense
Program
, Pinkerton National Detective Agency - ANSWERPrivate detective agency established by Allan
Pinkerton in the 1850s
Pinkerton Protective Patrol - ANSWERAgency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1857 to provide
watchman services for businesses and private individuals
Private Security Industry - ANSWERThe industry that provides private and corporate security
programs to the United States
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004 - ANSWERLaw passed in 2004 giving
employers the ability to request criminal background checks from the FBI to process criminal history
records for candidates for security job positions.
Questors - ANSWERRome created the first specialized investigative unit call questors or "trackers of
murder"
Railway Police Acts - ANSWERLaws established in many states in the 19th century giving the railroad
industry the right to establish a proprietary security force.
Thief-takers - ANSWERIndividuals who served as a form of private police in 16th/17th/18th century
France and England.
ASIS International Employment Survey - ANSWERYearly survey of managers and professionals in the
private security industry regarding salaries paid to proprietary and contract security employees
ASIS International US Salary Survey - ANSWERYearly survey on the salaries of professionals and
management employees in the private security industry
Contract Security - ANSWERExternal companies hired to provide security
Council on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation (CLEAR) - ANSWERProfessional organization
involved in licensing and regulatory reform in the private security industry.
Covert - ANSWERundercover
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