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  2. Security company - Wikipedia

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    A private security guard on duty at a factory Private guard escort on a merchant ship, providing security services against pirates. A private security company is a business entity which provides armed or unarmed security services and expertise to clients in the private or public sectors.

  3. Pinkerton (detective agency) - Wikipedia

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    Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

  4. International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service ...

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    The Code is a non-state mechanism and is therefore intended to be supplementary to state legal oversight of private security providers. It has been designed to apply in complex security environments, meaning any areas experiencing or recovering from unrest or instability, whether due to natural disasters or armed conflicts, where the rule of law has been substantially undermined, and in which ...

  5. Security management - Wikipedia

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    Security management includes the theories, concepts, ideas, methods, procedures, and practices that are used to manage and control organizational resources in order to accomplish security goals. Policies, procedures, administration, operations, training, awareness campaigns, financial management, contracting, resource allocation, and dealing ...

  6. Security detail - Wikipedia

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    A security detail, often known as a PSD (protective services detail, personal security detachment, personal security detail) or PPD (personal protection detail), is a protective team assigned to protect the personal security of an individual or group. PSDs can be made up of multiple federal and state government organisations, military personnel ...

  7. Biological organisation - Wikipedia

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    The basic principle behind the organisation is the concept of emergence—the properties and functions found at a hierarchical level are not present and irrelevant at the lower levels. The biological organisation of life is a fundamental premise for numerous areas of scientific research, particularly in the medical sciences.

  8. Public security - Wikipedia

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    Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensure the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against ...

  9. Secret society - Wikipedia

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    The exact qualifications for labeling a group a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, the denial of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals ...