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This 3 page paper discusses the evolution of security services from ancient times to today. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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security is like now and how it was handled in the past, and how the role of security has changed over time. Discussion First of all, this subject is too
broad because there are many kinds of security. There is physical security, such as that provided to the President, heads of state, celebrities and other persons. There is the security
provided by guards for a building or installation. There is internet security; there is security provided by personnel at airports, seaports and train stations-the list is endless. All security has
the same basic mission, however: there is a person, place or product that needs to be protected, and people with specialized training in security are hired or assigned to protect
it. This concept is as old as humanity: when man decided that some things were worth protecting from the predations of others, security was born. History of security services: Security
goes back to the Code of Hammurabi, the ancient Babylonian king who was the first to codify a set of laws. His legal code, which was developed around 2000 BC,
was "designed to regulate the behavior of people to one another and to society as a whole" (Brislin, 1998, p. 1). Even more importantly, perhaps, the Code described what punishment
would be used against someone who violated these laws: "The old saying an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth is generally accepted to have been initiated
in this code" (Brislin, 1998, p. 1). In other words, the punishment for a crime was to be proportional to the crime committed. Between 500-600 BC the Greeks "developed
procedures and implemented systems to protect strategic roads leading to and from their cities and to protect their vital interests from potential enemies"; later, the Roman army, the most powerful
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