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The foundation of the current private security systems may be credited to Alan Pinkerton. Born in Glasgow in 1819 Pinkerton worked for a sort time as the Cook County Deputy Sherriff before in 1849 being the first detective appointed in the Chicago Police department (Dempsey, 2010). Pinkerton also went on to investigate mail thefts as a special U.S. mail agent in 1850 (Dempsey, 2010). It was in the early 1850's that in partnership with Edward Rucker he started up his on private detective agency, located in the North-West of the country (Dempsey, 2010). After only a year his partner left, at which time the firm was renamed the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, with the tag line 'the eye that never sleeps' (Dempsey, 2010). It was this slogan which led to the term 'private eye' to refer to private investigators (Dempsey, 2010; Burstein, 1999). The agency was highly successful and became the first national private detective agency (Dempsey, 2010). The tasks and roles that the agency fulfill expanded, the fir was hired by the railroads to patrol their trains, the firm was also a pioneer in hand writing analysis, and proposed the centralizing of criminal records to aid with identification of suspects.

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Pinkertons were also the firm to hire a female detective; Kate Warne, who started work as a detective in 1856 (Dempsey, 2010). Personal protection was added to the portfolio in 1857 with the formation of Pinkerton Protective Patrol (Dempsey, 2010).

In the Civil War the firm offered private services to the government, including intelligence gathering and the protection of President Lincoln. The firm is credited with saving the life of Lincoln by identifying an assassination plan during covet intelligence work identifying threats to the railroads (Fischel, 1996).

Pinkertons was not the only private security firm to emerge, the latter part of the nineteenth century also saw other firms established. The need was also supported with the Railway Police Acts 1865, giving railroad the ability to protect themselves (Dempsey, 2010). The two main rivals were Binks Inc., created with the aim of protecting payroll governments, and in 1909 there was the founding of William J. Burns Inc., which went on to become the investigative unit of the American Banking Association (Burstein, 1999).

In the Private Security Task Force Report three factors were identified as ongoing drivers for the development of the industry, these were ineffective.....

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