In Security:
The New Age of Policing

Length: 1 hour

Produced by: CBC TV
Producer: Christopher Sumpton
Director/Writer: Robin Benger
Editor: Christopher Sumpton
Narrator: Peter Desbarats
Cinematography: John Westheuser
Format: SD
First Airing: January 22, 1998 - CBC Witness

Synopsis :
(1998) Examines the growing privatization of law enforcement. They are the New Enforcers: The private Police. Officers hired by private interests to police us all.

• Private security has mushroomed in the last twenty years.

• In Canada the number of private security guards and officers has increased by 129 percent.

• Security guards now out number police by 4 to 1.

• The private security business is a billion dollar industry.

Description:
In security looks at this phenomenal growth across North America.

The documentary gains unprecedented access to Canada's most aggressive private police force as it contracts in the richest and poorest parts of Toronto.

The documentary examines how private police and private security are elbowing out the public police who are suffering from budget cuts and loss of public confidence.

The documentary also travels to parts of the United states, where private police now out nuimber public police by 8 to 1. its reports on one security company that now patrols 50 Florida communities and provides private security for millionaires, corporations, commuters and convicts.

"In Security:The New Age in policing" lifts the lid off a revolution in policing.... a revolution that most people are unaware of.