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The Private/Public Security Nexus in China The Private/Public Security Nexus in China Susan Trevaskes ODAY THE PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR IN CHINA IS BOOMING. AS OF DECEMBER 2006, almost four million authorized private security guards were operating, a T100% increase over the previous year.' The 2006 figure includes 930,000 security personnel who work for companies owned directly by China's public security bureaus (PSB), and three million personnel who work for companies moni- tored and managed by PSB. In 2006, security personnel helped to capture 162,000 individuals suspected of committing crimes or misdemeanors, and provided police with 220,000 sources of information related to crime incidents (Wang, 2007). It is reported that in 2006, security guards prevented potential theft of property worth 2.05 billion yuan (U.S.$260,000) (Ibid.) and private security companies made 7.5 billion yuan (U.S.$940 million) in profit. In Beijing, there are 76,000 registered security personnel, compared to 50,000 police, and 18 cities and provinces in China have more than 50,000 registered security guards. The areas with the fastest growing numbers of security guards are Guangxi province and Tibet, where the numbers have more than doubled in one year (Ibid.). The four million legitimate security personnel are the tip of a much larger private security iceberg. Millions of unregistered or "black market private security" (heishi bao'an) personnel oper- ate in uniforms almost identical to those of their authorized counterparts, and in some areas, the proportion of black market to legitimate guards is one to one.^ In 2004, the number of illegitimate security guards in Liaoning province reportedly outnumbered the 72,000 registered guards and in some areas the proportion of illegitimate to legitimate was two to one.^ The system of registered private security was established and is run entirely by China's police force in public security departments, bureaus, and sub-bureaus at the provincial, municipal, and county levels. This article surveys the complex relationship between the public/private sectors. It explores the tensions between two disparate interests, crime prevention and private profit, drawing the conclusion that security marketization—in an era of high crime and low public investment in crime prevention—has become a necessary but not unproblematic trademark of policing in today's China. SUSAN TREVASKES is a Research Fellow in the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (email: [email protected]). Among her research interests are the Chinese legal system and intercultural communication. 38 Social Justice Vol. 34, Nos. 3-^ (2007-08) The Private!Public Security Nexus in China 39 The Post-Mao Reemergence of Private Security China now lays claim to one of the world's largest contingents of security guards and to a history of private security that is among the world's oldest and most enduring. In imperial times, the monied classes saw private security guards as an economic necessity. Any movement of wealthy people and their possessions required the presence of bodyguards. Thus, while the system of policing is only about 100 years old in China, as is the separation of China's judicial and executive systems, private security guards have been an integral part of economic, political, and social life at least since the Song Dynasty in the 11th century."* But this long tradition accounts only minimally for the rapid rise of the private security industry over the last 20 years. The term bao 'an (private security) did not exist in imperial times. Security guard companies were referred to as biaoju, meaning "bureau of guards" and were private security firms registered officially at the local government level. Their main task was to protect the movement and material possessions of wealthy people within and between cities. They also provided public services for local governments on important occasions such as the Lantern and Moon Festivals. These tasks of the biaoju resonate with private security work today; they are officially registered with municipal governments, operate within a market economy, and their customers pay for their services. They have a stable organizational structure and have a contingent of employees that is at least nominally trained. Today they are hired by public and private entities to act as guards, to provide transportation protection, and to protect public order during specific public events. The specific tasks of private security firms in China range widely and include: • Guarding the entrances to government offices, community centers, entertainment venues, businesses, schools and universities, train stations, and airports; • Performing surveillance work to prevent theft, fire, or property damage in large venues such as storage facilities; • Patrolling private and public venues (public security agencies routinely employ private security to patrol public streets); • Performing armed guard transportation services, escorting money vans to and from banks; • Escorting dangerous goods such as explosives or chemicals; • Providing door guard activities for entertainment venues such as clubs, cinemas, Internet cafes, and car parks; • Acting as security personnel in hotels and shopping malls; • Guarding exhibits at commercial, museum, and art gallery exhibitions; 40 TREVASKES • Providing security services for one-off large sporting events and arts performances; • Retailing security-related equipment including surveillance materials, weapons, security doors, uniforms, and security vehicles; • Installing security cameras and security systems in public and private venues; • Acting as private bodyguards; • Performing security consultancy services; and • Performing parapolicing and other responsibilities that form part of, or are related to, the criminal justice system and are subcontracted out privately, including guard work in prisons, compulsory drug rehabilitation centers, and courts. Tasks include assisting prison officers, police, and court bailiffs in guarding defendants and prisoners (Liu, 2006: 3-126). Private security services have flourished in China over the last two decades for the straightforward reason that the growth in crime has far outweighed the amount of public resources put into the public security regime. Importantly, then, they are also expected to deal with disruptions of public order. In this respect, their rela- tionship with police and government is complex but congenial. Put simply, these parapolicing agencies are an indispensable armory of China's police force in an age of unprecedented social and economic transformation. Michael Dutton (2006:295) estimates that these firms perform around one-third of all police work in China's cities. In the city of Guangzhou in 2007, the government plans to employ 2,000 additional police officers and 3,500 additional private security officers. Guangzhou city already employs over 30,000 police officers. The Guangzhou Communist Party's politico-legal affairs secretary Zhang Guifang announced that 6,500 extra private security officers were recently recruited and are now referred to as "public order personnel" (zhi'an yuan). Their tasks are first to focus on community crime prevention and second to prevent robbery and muggings by creating a strong pres- ence on the streets. As he explained, "the function of these security officers is very important and the outlay [their wages] is relatively small.... This is also a good way to train them to become real police officers."^ The contemporary era of private security began with the establishment of the "Chinese Shekou Private Security Firm" in the special economic zone of Shenzhen on December 18,1984. Inl986, Premier Li Peng publicly encouraged the develop- ment of private security firms and by 1988, the State Council ratified a Ministry of Public Security report into the development of the industry. In 1990,700 officially registered private security firms employed 110,000 registered guards, expanding to 1,500 firms with 270,000 guards by 1997 (Liu, 2005: 5-6).^ Although the imperial-era system of biaoju has a long history, Chinese authori- ties turned to the West to develop the contemporary lexicon and system of private The Private/Public Security Nexus in China 41 security. As in Western nations, private security provision is considered a service industry, although private security firms are a specialized enterprise associated with the system for maintaining public order. Security companies operate as private firms that are required by law to register as businesses with legal entities. Despite these similarities with their Western counterparts, Chinese private security firms exhibit a striking difference—they work at the behest of China's politico-legal system. That they have flourished over the last 20 years is a consequence of what Dutton (2006: 295) calls "the commodification of security" in China's reform era. As he explains: The mass-line in security has become one vast network of tiny little workshops that repeatedly train cadres to think in terms of the market, the contractual relation, and the monetary reward. It is, in effect, marketization with a Maoist face. This marketization is a gift delivered via the contract from economic reform, and, as holds true for any gift, the only thing really given has been time. Time for the police to reform their own structure in line with the new demands of a modernizing China; time for them to shift tact and move from a preventative to a more responsive form of policing; time, too, for them to plug
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