Private security guards allowed to arrest and identify people in public
Thursday, December 12, 2013 @ 2:38 PM
PRIVATE security guards now have the jurisdiction to identify, search and arrest people in public – duties that until now have only ever been carried out by the police.
It would also mean they had the legal power to arrest a person at a sports event, in a shopping precinct or practically anywhere public without having to call the police to do so.
The new Private Security Law has been amended over 70 times already but now has votes in favour from the PNV and the CiU, although the socialists and left-wing Izquierda Plural are against it, considering it would merely lead to privatisation of State protection services.
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