A Study on the Partnership of the Japanese Police and Private Security

The security law and security industry of Japan have a great impact on Korea. In a modern sense, there are little large disparities between the two nations in the history and development of private security. However, the way they look at private security is not the same in large part. In Japan, private security companies are highly regarded by Japanese people as organizations that guarantee their safety, owing to the efforts of private security companies themselves, the National Security Association and civic groups. Private security has especially been approved and supported since it was decided in the anticrime cabinet council in December, 2003, in line with the action plan for the realization of anticrime society to boost private security as an industry to ensure people's safety in daily routine life by curbing crimes that might pose a threat to peaceful life. Afterwards, there has been a dynamic collaboration between the Japanese police and private security in terms of education, crime prevention, disaster prevention/restoration and everyday life safety. As for Korea, the necessity of cooperation between private security and the police is increasingly stressed, and it's required to strengthen their partnership to ensure successful crime prevention in consideration of Japanese partnership cases. In Japan, the police, civic groups, the security association and security companies make every effort to satisfy Japanese people's safety needs in diverse ways and take disaster-prevention measures as well.

일본 경찰과 민간의 협력에 관한 연구

일본의 경비업법과 경비산업이 한국에 많은 영향을 미쳤다. 현대적 의미의 민간경비에 대한 역사와 발전과정은 양국간에 큰 차이가 없는데도 불구하고 실질적으로 민간경비에 대한 인식은 차이가 크다. 일본의 민간경비와 경찰의 협력은 교육, 범죄예방, 방재 및 복구, 생활안전 등의 면에서 활발하게 이뤄지고 있다. 한국에서도 민간경비와 경찰의 협력이 더욱 필요한 시점이다. 일본의 협력사례들을 참고하여 한국에서도 범죄예방을 위한 민간경비와 경찰의 협력을 강화해야 할 것이다. 일본의 경우 경찰과 시민단체 경비업협회 경비업자 등은 국민의 안전욕구를 적극적으로 충족시키기 위해 다양한 방범, 방재활동을 전개하고 있다.