Private Security Exam 1 – Chapters 1–3, 2026 – Security
Studies Study and Review Material
ASIS International - correct answer ✔✔ Professional organization of private security
professionals
Bow Street Runners - correct answer ✔✔ Private investigative unit formed by Henry Fielding in
mid-1700s in England
Certified Protection Professional - correct answer ✔✔ Professionals certification awarded to
security professionals by ASIS international
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ The practical, normative study of the rightness and wrongness of
human conduct.
Ethics, Codes, or values statements - correct answer ✔✔ Formal statements of businesses or
organizations representing their ethical and values standards
Hallcrests Reports - correct answer ✔✔ The first comprehensive studies of the US private
security industry.
Industrial Defense Program - correct answer ✔✔ Federal program established in 1952 to
oversee, advise, and assist defense-related facilities; now known as the National Industrial
Security Program
Minimum Standards or Guidelines - correct answer ✔✔ Efforts to increase the
professionalization of private security employees by requiring them to meet specific standards
prior to employment.
, Moonlighting - correct answer ✔✔ When police officers work in private security jobs during
their off-duty hours
National Industrial Security Program - correct answer ✔✔ Federal program established in 1952
to oversee, advise, and assist defense-related facilities, formerly known as the National
Industrial Defense Program
Pinkerton National Detective Agency - correct answer ✔✔ Private detective agency established
by Allan Pinkerton in the 1850s
Pinkerton Protective Patrol - correct answer ✔✔ Agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1857
to provide watchman services for businesses and private individuals
Private Security Industry - correct answer ✔✔ The industry that provides private and corporate
security programs to the United States
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004 - correct answer ✔✔ Law passed
in 2004 giving employers the ability to request criminal background checks from the FBI to
process criminal history records for candidates for security job positions.
Questors - correct answer ✔✔ Rome created the first specialized investigative unit call questors
or "trackers of murder"
Railway Police Acts - correct answer ✔✔ Laws established in many states in the 19th century
giving the railroad industry the right to establish a proprietary security force.
Thief-takers - correct answer ✔✔ Individuals who served as a form of private police in
16th/17th/18th century France and England.
Studies Study and Review Material
ASIS International - correct answer ✔✔ Professional organization of private security
professionals
Bow Street Runners - correct answer ✔✔ Private investigative unit formed by Henry Fielding in
mid-1700s in England
Certified Protection Professional - correct answer ✔✔ Professionals certification awarded to
security professionals by ASIS international
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ The practical, normative study of the rightness and wrongness of
human conduct.
Ethics, Codes, or values statements - correct answer ✔✔ Formal statements of businesses or
organizations representing their ethical and values standards
Hallcrests Reports - correct answer ✔✔ The first comprehensive studies of the US private
security industry.
Industrial Defense Program - correct answer ✔✔ Federal program established in 1952 to
oversee, advise, and assist defense-related facilities; now known as the National Industrial
Security Program
Minimum Standards or Guidelines - correct answer ✔✔ Efforts to increase the
professionalization of private security employees by requiring them to meet specific standards
prior to employment.
, Moonlighting - correct answer ✔✔ When police officers work in private security jobs during
their off-duty hours
National Industrial Security Program - correct answer ✔✔ Federal program established in 1952
to oversee, advise, and assist defense-related facilities, formerly known as the National
Industrial Defense Program
Pinkerton National Detective Agency - correct answer ✔✔ Private detective agency established
by Allan Pinkerton in the 1850s
Pinkerton Protective Patrol - correct answer ✔✔ Agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1857
to provide watchman services for businesses and private individuals
Private Security Industry - correct answer ✔✔ The industry that provides private and corporate
security programs to the United States
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004 - correct answer ✔✔ Law passed
in 2004 giving employers the ability to request criminal background checks from the FBI to
process criminal history records for candidates for security job positions.
Questors - correct answer ✔✔ Rome created the first specialized investigative unit call questors
or "trackers of murder"
Railway Police Acts - correct answer ✔✔ Laws established in many states in the 19th century
giving the railroad industry the right to establish a proprietary security force.
Thief-takers - correct answer ✔✔ Individuals who served as a form of private police in
16th/17th/18th century France and England.
