Security guards could become the new bobbies on the beat / The Times, August 27 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4616088.ece
"Private security staff, council wardens and football stewards may be given the power to issue on-the-spot fines for public disorder. A Home Office plan, which chief constables are considering, comes after an admission that in some parts of the country people see police enforcement as excessive."