Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership

The global contract security market now totals over $200 billion, with the number of private security officers exceeding that of public law enforcement officers.But this wasn’t always the case. Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership presents the unique stories of 15 industry legends, who transformed the industry from early private detective and small night watch companies into large-scale contract security companies.The large-scale companies include, but are not limited to, Pinkerton, Burns International, The Wackenhut Corporation, Guardsmark, Wells Fargo, and U.S.Security Associates; as well as today’s leading security companies, Allied Universal, Securitas, G4S, Prosegur, and GardaWorld. The book begins in the nineteenth century, with early U.S. legendary detectives: Allan Pinkerton and William Burns.Then, the book focuses largely from the mid-twentieth century to the present, where successive generations of legends built large-scale contract security compa