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Security - In the beginning!

Security, not unlike intelligence, can mean anything to everybody. Have a gander at this site. Here are some key concepts:
  • Freedom from risk or danger; safety
  • Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.
  • Something that gives or assures safety
  • Assured freedom from poverty or want
  • Precautions taken to ward off impending danger, to ensure against theft, espionage, etc
  • Measures taken by a business, activity, or installation to protect itself against all acts designed to, or which may, impair its effectivenes
  • A condition that results from the establishment and maintenance of protective measures that ensure a state of inviolability from hostile acts or influences.
  • Prevention of and protection against assault, damage, fire, fraud, invasion of privacy, theft, unlawful entry, and other such occurrences caused by deliberate action
So what? I wont bore with the details - yet, functionally, security breaks down into three functions:
  • protect - to guard
  • police - to enforce. Law and bylaw enforcement,
  • prevent- to deter
And then we see adjectives applied in an attempt to qualify the use of the word "security" (listed in alphabetical order): And then there is "safe and secure", as if the two words convey two different conditions. Do they? In a recent news release concerning the 2010 G8 Summit, RCMP Chief Superintendent Alphonse MacNeil declared that "Our top priority is creating security plans to establish the safest and most secure environment possible for the leaders, residents and visitors to the G8 Summit"
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Crime strategy should target social problems: police chief

By James Wood, The StarPhoenix June 10, 2010.

A provincial strategy to reduce violent crime should focus not just on policing and prosecutions but also on underlying social problems, said Saskatoon's police chief.

Clive Weighill said in an interview this week he is fully supportive of a violent crime reduction strategy, the development of which has been given to the minister of justice and minister of corrections, policing and public safety in new mandate letters last week.

But he said there needs to be a "multi-jurisdictional" approach that brings in the ministries of health, social services and education as well.

The public and social agencies also need to be involved in what he called a "much broader social strategy" than efforts that have targeted auto theft and break and enters in the past.

"We have to continue working with our partners, our social justice partners, in trying to alleviate this problem because, let's face it, a lot of these problems occur out of social conditions: Poverty, poor housing, racism, addictions, abuse. That's what's causing a lot of these problems and those are the issues we need to work on," said Weighill.

Saskatchewan Party Justice Minister Don Morgan said in a recent interview social agencies and other ministries need to be involved in the long-term solution to violent crime, although they aren't part of the specific mandate.
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