Originally published as Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management Volume 25 Number 1, 2002
ISBN: 1 84663 010 X
Guest Edited by: Lawrence F. Travis III
This Special Issue focuses on the development and implementation of community policing around the world.
Articles from a diverse group of scholars offer a timely assessment of police strategies internationally. This issue also contains the regular features, ‘‘Perspectives on policing’’ and an Internet resource review.
Contents:
Teamwork – not making the dream work: Community policing in Poland
In January of 1999, following the philosophy of community oriented policing, the Polish National Police restructured its organization. This article presents results of two phases out of a larger research project conducted with the Polish police and community members representing diverse environments including college students, politicians, and media representatives.
Between a rock and a hard place: RCMP organizational change
This article examines how the collision of neo-liberalism and regionally specific social forces have created a specific manifestation of community based policing. The merger of neo-liberalism and community policing has taken place under common conditions of downsizing, fiscal downloading and organizational restructuring. These conditions have not, however, led to a consistency of application.
Personalized policing: Results from a series of experiments with proximity policing in Denmark
Describes the emergence of proximity policing – a Danish version of COP – and evaluates a series of experiments with implementation of the concept. The design and scope of each experiment is described, and their degree of implementation is assessed.
Community-oriented policing in Germany: Training and education
This article presents data from two surveys and arguments in favour of a restructuring of the police service, in general, and police training in particular. The authors contend that to keep up with an ever-changing world, the police has to become more versatile itself, without losing sight of its core functions: protection and security provision.
Dutch “COP”: Developing community policing in The Netherlands
Dutch policing has followed the three generations of community policing identified elsewhere. The paper outlines the three waves, arguing that progressive Dutch society has influenced policing styles, giving Dutch policing a strong social orientation. The material draws on action research projects from the 1970s and 1980s and current innovations with special attention to developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht in which the authors are involved as researchers or consultants.
Community policing in Israel: Resistance and change
The Israeli National Police began to implement community policing on a large scale in January of 1995. In this paper the main findings of a three year national evaluation of community policing in Israel that was initiated by the Chief Scientist’s office of the Israeli police are discussed.
Community policing and the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
In deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland the question of police reform cannot be divorced from broader political issues. This article looks at the connections between police reform and the political process, in the particular context of the recommendations of the Patten Report, which put forward a framework for a fundamental reform of policing in Northern Ireland.
Community policing in the Caribbean: Context, community and police capability
This article examines community policing as a relatively new policing feature in the Caribbean. It compares the key expectations of such policies with the officers’ understanding of what such policing means to them. The community policing policy is then assessed against the background of public opinion.
Keeping up appearances?: A community’s perspective on community policing and the local governance of crime
This article summarizes and discusses findings of roundtable discussions on the opinions of the citizens of two Belgian (Flemish) cities about the policing and security policy in their cities. Citizens question the organizational and cultural readiness of their local police forces for the full-scale development of community policing.
Local security management: Policing through networks
Anglo-American community policing has been implemented in Finland since 1996 but there has been a long tradition of the community policing style, called the village police, since the 1960s. The police enjoy a great deal of public confidence, the welfare society has been stable, with no significant social divisions and rather low crime, and therefore there have been no urgent needs or pressures for policing reform.
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