Development of private policing can mainly be located within the Apartheid era security governance system  From security governance perspective, skewed law enforcement saw a large number of autonomous groups that arose to deal with township crime, frustrated that the state police did so little to protect their residents or investigate crime  From socio-political perspective, the focus is on profound experience of factional violence that characterised the transition era  From law enforcement perspective, the focus is on infiltration of the law enforcement sector - the issue of corruption sticking out Precipitating factors for growth of informal security structures
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