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Chapter 1 reviews the budgetary requirements of state and local governments for homeland security and suggests how restructuring both security and emergency services and greater use of public–private partnerships could address a significant portion of such needs. Specifically, governments could shed services that are private in nature, contract out public services that could be more efficiently provided under market conditions, charge cost-based prices for services that are provided free or at nominal prices by governments like ambulance services, require businesses and other organizations to have security insurance, and provide incentives for private sector involvement. Private managerial talent and security officers as well as capital could be enlisted to provide effectively the excess demand for manpower and capital when homeland security events occur.
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Hakim, S., Blackstone, E.A. (2009). The Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security. In: Hakim, S., Blackstone, E. (eds) Safeguarding Homeland Security. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0371-6_1
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