Public security

Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensure the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being, survival, and prosperity.
The public safety issues that a municipality, county, regional, or federal jurisdiction may handle include crimes (ranging from misdemeanors to felonies), structure fires, conflagrations, medical emergencies, mass-casualty incidents, disasters, terrorism, and other concerns.
Public safety organizations are organizations that conduct public safety. They generally consist of emergency services and first responders such as law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical services, security forces, and military forces. They are often operated by a government, though some private public safety organizations exist where possible.
Framework
Organized crime and international terrorism are hardly deterred by geographical, linguistic, or financial barriers. The latter has largely contributed to public security becoming an important political and economic issue, nationally as well as internationally. Politics, public organizations and businesses closely collaborate to guarantee public security and maintain a stable environment for economic prosperity.
Although public security significantly contributes to the attractiveness of a location, the productivity of its people, and hence the overall success of an economy, the sector frequently suffers from low budgets, limited resources, and inadequate information systems. Large events, pandemics, severe accidents, environmental disasters, and terrorist attacks pose additional threats to public security and order.
The police, federal police and border authorities nonetheless need to warrant the security of the country as a fundamental prerequisite for the domestic political ability to act. The quality and scope of potential threats have changed significantly, and the tasks and general framework for the police, federal police and border authorities have changed accordingly.
Public safety organizations
National
Federal law enforcement agency
Criminal investigation department
Border patrol
Gendarmerie
Ministry or department of interior, justice, or public safety
Regional
County police
Sheriff or constable's office
State trooper or provincial police
Local
Police department or marshals
Fire services
Emergency medical services
Local government
Municipal public affairs office
Sub-sectors
Law enforcement
National or federal police
Regional, state, and local police
Intelligence and information sharing
Intelligence services
Secret services
Emergency
Emergency medical services
Fire service
Lifeguard
Police
Park ranger
Search and rescue
Justice
Courts
Judges
Juries
Lawyers and advocates
Forensic
Justice ministry
Prison officers
Interior
Border and port authorities
Coast guard
Customer services
Organizations
By nation
In Australia, Australian Institute of Public Safety, Australian Federal Police
In Brazil, National Secretariat of Public Safety
In Canada, Public Safety Canada
In France, Committee of Public Safety
In Japan, National Public Safety Commission (Japan)
In South Korea, Ministry of the Interior and Safety (South Korea)
In United Kingdom, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland only)
In United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, Department of Public Safety
In Mongolia, State Emergency Commission (Mongolia)
Formerly Public Security (Czechoslovakia) with Czechoslovakia
Airport security
Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International
Civil defense
Civil defense sirens
Common Alerting Protocol
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Emergency management
Emergency telephone number
Firefighting
Neighborhood Watch
Food safety
Guardian Angels
Good safety practice
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Natural disaster
No-go area
Occupational safety and health
Office of Emergency Management
Personal protective equipment
Police
Public health
Public safety network
Risk
Road traffic safety
Safety engineering
SafetyLit
See also
Homeland security
Justice
Law enforcement
Societal security
References
External links
Murray N. Rothbard: The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts aus For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
Emergency services
Crime
Law enforcement
Justice
Security
Public safety communications