Issues Panel. The issues panel was facilitated by Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Co-Chair, Private Sector Liaison Committee, IACP, and included the following participants: • Xxx Xxxxxx, Chairman, Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. • Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Chief, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department • Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Immediate Past President, IACP • Xxxx Xxxxxx, Director, Global Security, Xxxxx and XxXxxxxx Companies, Inc. • Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx and Professor, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern Uni- versity • Xxx Xxxxxxxx, Intelligence Operations Specialist, Office of Law Enforcement Coordination, FBI • Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Superintendent, Indiana State Police Department • Xxxx Xxxxxx, Manager, Global Security Issues and Strategy, Global Security Department, Exxon Mobil The summary below, constructed around questions posed by the facilitator, combines observations made by both panel members and audience members. What is the current status of the relationship between public law enforcement and private security? It may be more negative than positive. There is much role confusion between the public and private sectors—for example, confusion about what will be done in an emergency. If a company’s plant suffers an explosion, it may immediately be declared a crime scene by police, and then the company’s security staff cannot respond as needed. Likewise, in the post-9/11 era, law enforcement officers show up to conduct risk assessments but often are not as knowledgeable about them as private security is. Relations are mixed. A city may simultaneously have some outstanding partnerships but also some counterproductive relationships. 9/11 helped in relationship building. The true measure of success, however, is whether a partnership accomplishes something and is lasting. Community policing calls on law enforcement to develop relationships with various sec- tors of the community. Police departments meet regularly with local clergy, business groups, neighborhood associations, and other groups. They do not seem to meet regu- larly with groups of corporate security directors and managers of security businesses. Given law enforcement’s stretched resources and additional burdens, there is no better time to develop new relationships with private security and find ways to work together. For the most part, the public sector tends to have the threat information, and the private sector tends to have control over the vulnerable sites. Law enforcement’s capacity to provide homeland security may be more limite...
