MELCHIOR, Philippe

La construction d'une nouvelle doctrine de sécurité - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1999

Both in its conception and its organisation, the maintenance of public order has undergone profound changes in recent decades. The inital phenomenon has been a development in private security services. Furthermore, the State continues to assume its tradition role of maintaining order, but in new ways. In France, recent reforms centre the new doctrine of security upon notions of partnership and proximity. Finally, beyond the State, the international dimension of criminality is on the increase due to the development of migratory flows and to the possibilities opened up by new information technologies and communication. In the light of this new phenomenon only an organised fight waged at a global level would seem capable of being effective