International Journal on Criminology Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2017/2018 | Page 7

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consultation with the trade union organizations of employees and
employers.”
Within the framework of its disciplinary mission, the CNAPS has used the
code of ethics (L. 631-8) to take up the question of abnormally low prices, winning
its case before the administrative tribunal of Toulon in April 2016 and establishing
a major precedent. The Council would like to see this precedent become settled
law, either through similar decisions by other administrative tribunals or through
confirmations by higher administrative courts.
In any case, the title of this conference at Paris Descartes University leads
us directly to the topic of the economics of security. Unlike political approaches
to private security, however, this line of research is not particularly developed in
France, within either universities or business schools. This is strange for a sector
in which companies and executives consider themselves, and conceptualize themselves,
in both political and economic terms. This conference gives a chance to
restore balance, in a sense, by paying closer attention to economic approaches to
private security.
To introduce this conference on “Contractual Issues in Private Security,”
we will go through from the simplest matters to the most complex, starting from
questions of terminology before passing to those of education and, finally, of enforcement.
Firstly we must examine, from the point of view of contractualization,
how private security emerged.
CONTENTS
1. Historically, “Contractualization” in Security Has Been a Factor in Professionalization.
2. Do Contractual Issues Only Concern “Contract Security”?
3. “Contract Security” Means “Clients and Customers.”
4. Strategic and Practical Approaches to Contractual Issues by Public Authorities.
5. Contractual Issues or Economic Issues?
6. Contractual Issues or Legal Issues? But: Both Providers and Customers ...
7. Appendix 1: Code of Ethics for Natural and Legal Persons Engaged in Private
Security Activities.
8. Appendix 2: Extract from the Decision of the Administrative Court of Toulon
(3 rd Chamber) No. 1401533 of April 21, 2016.
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