NCJ Number
228569
Journal
Security Journal Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Dated: October 2009 Pages: 302-316
Date Published
October 2009
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This paper reports on interviews conducted with security managers at the European level and a review of relevant European Union (EU) policy documents in an attempt to improve strategic dialogue on crime and terrorism in the EU and partnership between private and public sectors.
Abstract
In 2005 and 2006, the European Commission felt there was no overarching structure, bringing together public and private sector interests to discuss pan-European Union (EU) cooperation against all aspects of terrorism and other serious crime. This report focuses on this strategic partnership and reports on attempts by the European Commission to formalize at EU level a high-level forum for such discussions. A study was conducted interviewing a small number of senior security managers and their public sector opposites. Drawing on their experience, interviewees considered that closer cooperation could be pursued at European level through the facilitation of a closed group or trusted forum involving senior security managers from the private sector. The report draws upon these interviews as well as EU policies to articulate some options for the initial work plan for such a forum. The results were a political tilt in ownership within the European Commission, the relinquishing of the public-private security. The report suggests that security cooperation, previously conceptualized as public-private (public sector lead), should be understood as private-public, as security serves economic concerns. Table and references