As of November 04th 2026 a total number of 2612 registered security companies and firms are operating in Australia . Only 18 % of such had a contactable email address only 27 % had a contactable phone number only 26 % had a website . If these statistics are not earth shatteringly disturbing enough then the statistical fact that the private security sector in Australia during year 2023 did employ 2.1 % of the total workforce should not only arouse and evoke more than just disturbance but something more like an overwhelming sense of incredibility given that security personnel do not actually produce anything with it being highly questionable and debatable whether they provide any meaningful service at all .

There were an estimated total of 76 security firms operating in Australia somewhere before year 1990 and a known total of 1152 security firms operating in Australia before year 2010 . It is thereby regarded laughingly as a growth industry by those without much per se in the manner of worthy thinking ability . Also it should be unsurprising that a significant portion of current security personnel do possess an employment background of police or military or prison officer with the unsavory distasteful undesirable regulatory mentality to match .

Before the year 1990 a reasonable amount of the security work did involve cash delivery protection be it for bank or retail or the large workplace payroll . Direct wage and salary payment to a nominated bank account and the increasing use of the credit card for small regular daily purchase transactions along with the various non cash methods for periodic bill payment have all been the instigators that have brought change to that former security sector . Security work currently does involve a higher amount of surveillance by mainly network camera along with a lesser amount of highly visible associated patrol duty .

Because security staff serve as a de facto police they have likewise acquired a similar poor public image . However this so called security industry could be upon the very verge of an impending change that may eventuate and culminate in fast rapid well deserved general decline particularly regarding the sheer number ridiculously engaged in such unimportant and unnecessary meaningless paid employment and occupation . That certain impending beneficial change for society as a whole may well immerge from a most unlikely source in an equally most unlikely manner . It should also provide the impetus for a seriously major cull and reduction in the number of police . If this hinted change does arise it shall render the present dictatorial authoritarian mentality to the historical scrapheap of things past .