Abstract
The roots of corporate security in the USA can be traced back to a stout Scot named Allan Pinkerton who left Glasgow in 1842 and immigrated to Chicago. Originally a barrel maker, Pinkerton performed his first bit of sleuthing five years later when he stumbled upon a ring of counterfeiters and helped the local police crack the case. He joined the police department and shortly later became its first detective. In no time, he opened his own detective agency and the Pinkerton Detective Agency was on its way to becoming part of American history. The Pinkerton agency uncovered a plot and protected Abraham Lincoln from an assassination. Pinkerton personally served as head of the Union Intelligence Service—a precursor to the US Secret Service—during the Civil War. The agency was called in to apprehend the first train robbers in America, shortly after the Civil War ended. It went on to chase down Jesse James, the Younger Gang, and Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. Pinkerton pioneered many of the methods and procedures used in law enforcement today.
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