The importance of private interest for implementing person and property security

Abstract

The paper is prepared for the 7th international scientific conference ''Property, encumbrances on property: problems, solutions and opportunities", which will be held on 2 June at School of Business Administration Turiba (Riga, Latvia). The article is based on the empirical research conducted by the author and deals with the relation between private interest and public interest while implementing person and property protection, also the status of private security industry in Lithuania and private security influence for the quality of person and property safety. It may be argued that the link between private interest and public interest nowadays is very conspicuous. For this reason, the role of private security still is quite eclectic basically because of vagueness of its powers (Kalesnykas, 2002). It leads us to think that research is mostly more targeted towards legal aspects of activity of private security, whereas private policing is often a subject, which remains not discussed. The topicality of the empirical research of the importance of private interest for implementing person and property protection that follow it is topical because of two reasons: first, the development of private security market leads to its penetration into the public domain. Private security services now have the right to provide different services and actually are claiming the status of an individual policing subject. Therefore we note that the role of private security services is defined so nationally and the relevant legal mechanism still does not work smoothly; secondly, the line between relations of private interest and public interest, herewith private security services and police institutions, in the field of person and property protection is not clear. That's why there are juridical problems in co-ordination of the work between private security services and the police.