In order to realize the full extent of the importance of normative regulation of private security in Serbia, we have to get to know the very genesis of privatization of security jobs because the private security sector in Serbia has been articulated only recently since adopting the relevant legislation at the end of 2013, the Law on Private Security and the Law on Detective Activity were adopted, prior to which this area had for a long time been in the normative interregnum. The importance of normative regulation of private security in Serbia is multifaceted; it is accepted in all segments of society, from the security point - its presence is essential both in the private and in the public sector; it reduces public spending and is of particular importance for the development of society as a whole. Today, private security in Serbia is at a critical juncture with the growing trend and a normative legal framework regulating the functions, responsibilities, control and other activities of private security factors. All this suggests that the legislative framework of private security in the Republic of Serbia is inevitably part of the guarantee of full professionalization of activities of private security, wherein the state appears as a guarantee of these activities through normative regulation of this area. In this regard, the paper points to the special normative base of private security components and the current state and tendencies of legal regulation of private security in Serbia.