Opinion about Private Security Guards in Slovenia Given by Students of Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security: Comparison between the Years 2003 in 2017

Področje zasebnega varovanja je urejeno z Zakonom o zasebnem varovanju (ZZasV, 2011), ki ureja pravice in dolžnosti različnih subjektov zasebnega varovanja. Ključni akter zasebnega varovanja so zasebni varnostniki. To so osebe, ki neposredno opravljajo naloge zasebnega varovanja in lahko pri svojem delu uporabljajo ukrepe, določene v ZZasV (2011). V magistrskem delu smo ugotavljali, kakšno mnenje imajo študenti Fakultete za varnostne vede o zasebnih varnostnikih in predvsem, kako se je to spremenilo od leta 2003 do 2017. V raziskavi iz leta 2003 (Nalla, Meško, Sotlar in Bodiroža, 2004) so obravnavana vprašanja o strokovnosti in naravi dela varnostnikov, ki smo jih uporabili tudi v naši raziskavi (2017) in tako pridobili podatke za primerjavo ugotovitev obeh raziskav. Za leto 2017 smo s preverjanjem hipotez ugotovili, da študenti FVV menijo, da varnostniki svojega dela ne opravljajo zelo profesionalno, da ni razlike v mnenju med študenti in študentkami ter da imajo študenti s pozitivnimi izkušnjami z varnostniki boljše mnenje o njih kot tisti z negativnimi izkušnjami. V primerjavi z letom 2003 študenti FVV v letu 2017 zasebne varnostnike vidijo kot enako profesionalne, na drugi strani pa se jim njihovo delo zdi bolj pomembno, koristno in zahtevno (»narava dela varnostnikov«). Mnenje o profesionalnosti varnostnikov se torej ni izboljšalo, medtem ko se je mnenje o naravi dela izboljšalo, sprememb splošnega mnenja o varnostnikih pa ni mogoče ugotoviti. Lahko trdimo le, da se splošno mnenje o varnostnikih ni poslabšalo.The field of private security is regulated by the Private Security Act (Zakon o zasebnem varovanju, 2011), which regulates the rights and duties of various private security entities. The key actors in private security are private security guards. A security guard is a person that performs private security assignments and is allowed to use measures laid down in the aforementioned Private Security Act. This master’s thesis wished to determine the opinions of students of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security about private security guards in Slovenia and how these opinions have changed from 2003 to 2017. A survey from 2003 (Nalla, Meško, Sotlar and Bodiroža, 2004) asked questions about security guards’ professionalism and the nature of their work. The same questions were used to obtain data for the present survey, which enabled excellent comparison between these two years. The key research findings of 2017 are: students of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security are of the opinion that private security guards are not very professionalthere is no difference of opinion between male and female studentsand students with positive experiences have a better opinion of security guards, compared to students with negative experiences. Students in the 2017 survey view the work of security guards to be just as professional as it was in 2003, but they assess their work as more important, useful and hard (“nature of work”) than they did in 2003. Given the two above-mentioned findings it cannot be concluded that the general opinion about private security guards has improved since 2003, nor can it be disproved. It can only be concluded that students\u27 opinions of private security guards in Slovenia have not worsened