Content (Syllabus outline)
• Theories and definitions in the field of security
• On scientific research of private security industry in the world and in Slovenia
• Security deficit of the state, outsourcing and privatization of security jobs
• Pluralisation of policing and expansion of “non-police police” organizations
• Manifestations of private security industry:
o Private security companies
o Private detective activity
o Private military companies
o Private intelligence activity
o Security consulting companies
o Industry of mechanic and electronic technical devices for control and protection
• The role of private security industry in national security system
• Employment of private security industry by states (governments) and international organizations in international crisis response operations
• Private security industry – international perspectives
• Legal, organizational and functional regulation of private security industry in RS: forms/licences, areas of work and tasks; measures, rights, duties and entitlements of private security personnel and private investigators
• Oversight over private security industry
• Professionalization of private security in RS
• Research findings
Readings
• Sotlar, A. (2022). Zasebnovarnostna industrija, 1. letnik, magistrski študijski program Varstvoslovje (Zbrano študijsko gradivo). Fakulteta za varnostne vede.
• Button, M. in Stiernstedt, P. (2018). Comparing private security regulation in the European Union. Policing and Society, 28(4), 398–414.
• Britovšek, J. in Sotlar, A. (2014). Zasebna obveščevalna dejavnost. Varstvoslovje, 16(3), 278–295.
• Dvojmoč, M., Erčulj, V. in Sotlar, A. (2022). Tasks and competences of a private eye in a small society: the case of private detectives in Slovenia. Security Journal. 10.1057/s41284-022-00344-3.
• Dvojmoč, M. in Sotlar, A. (2018). Profesionalizacija zasebnega varstva v Sloveniji. Varstvoslovje, 20(3), 358–380.
• Kopač, E., Fritz, M. in Garb, M. (2014). Vojaška privatizacija in Slovenija. Varstvoslovje, 16(3), 242–263.
• Sotlar, A., Modic, M. in Dvojmoč, M. (2022). Normative legal regulation of private detective services in Slovenia – research-based proposals for legislative changes. International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 9(4), 366–381.
• Wakefield, A. in Button, M. (2014). Private policing in public spaces. V R. Kane in M. Reisig (ur.), The Oxford handbook of police and policing (str. 578–588). Oxford University Press.
• Zakon o detektivski dejavnosti (ZDD-1). (2011). Uradni list RS, (17/11).
• Zakon o zasebnem varovanju (ZZasV-1). (2011). Uradni list RS, (17/11).
• Pravilnik o izvajanju zakona o detektivski dejavnosti. (2011). Uradni list RS, (85/11).
• Pravilnik o izvajanju zakona o zasebnem varovanju. (2011). Uradni list RS, (100/11).
• Uredba o obveznem organiziranju varovanja. (2012). Uradni list RS, (80/12).
• Uredba o obveznem organiziranju službe varovanja na javnih prireditvah. (2010, 2011, 2016). Uradni list RS, (22/10, 17/11, 52/16).
