Fostering Police Leadership Capacity in Solomon Islands: Understanding the Challenges to Organizational Reform

McLeod, Abby; Herrington, Victoria

doi:10.1093/police/pav046

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“…In this paper, we respond to the call for more research on how police leaders learn (Flynn and Herrington, 2015). Policing has changed due to new types of terrorist threats, new technologies, immigration and new forms of crime (Flynn and Herrington 2015;Martin and Mazerolle, 2015;Herrington and Colvin, 2015;McLeod and Herrington, 2016).…”

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How Police Leaders Learn to Lead

Filstad

Karp

Glomseth

2018

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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This article examines how Norwegian police leaders learn to lead and what constitutes police practices. Twenty-seven police leaders were shadowed during and interviewed about their daily practices of policing. We found that police leaders learn foremost through their experiences by practising leadership within the context of police culture. We therefore argue for a shift from teaching to acknowledging learning through practice instead of learning through practice constituting missed opportunities for learning and being ‘due to chance’. The Norwegian police culture and the Norwegian Police Service not being a learning organization will strongly influence what Norwegian police leaders learn. Consequently, Norwegian police leaders learn management more than they learn leadership. We argue for combining management and leadership in future police leadership practices We also argue for the importance of enabling police leaders to construct their manoeuvring space, acknowledging the importance of a manoeuvring space in police leaders’ learning to ensure their learning results in changes in established practices.

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How Police Leaders Learn to Lead

Filstad

Karp

Glomseth

2018

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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“…Internationally, the police faces new types of terror threats, new technology, immigration and new forms of crime, where the police literature argues that increased complexity and new ways of conducting police work strongly challenges police leaders capacity to learn (Flynn & Herrrington, 2015;Martin & Mazerolle, 2015: Herrington & Colvin, 2015McLeod & Herrington, 2016;Roberts, Herrington, Warwick, White & Day, 2016). In Norway, the terror attack at Utøya/Oslo in 2011 lead to the Norwegian Police Service (NPS) being heavily criticized for their leadership culture and attitudes.…”

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Learning how to lead police investigations

Nilsen

Aaserud

Filstad

2018

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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The aim of this article was to investigate how police investigation leaders learn leadership and whether the facilitation of learning activities and learning methods could bridge the well-known gap between the teaching and learning of leadership. Using action research, we conducted a 'ileader' learning pool' consisting of police investigation leaders, providing interactive and collaborative learning activities, that included reflection, knowledge sharing and social support. The participants were receptive to this learning initiative, but they also argued that "learning by doing" is most important because it allows for communication and cooperation with colleagues in the context of their everyday leadership practice. They acknowledged the need for reflection and argued that the pool provides important reflection time, which they lack in their everyday practice. They also found the learning methods, particularly the 'group supporting method' and the new network useful for their own leadership development. However, using these new learning methods 'back home' was more challenging. Also, Further, the participants did not have the time to prioritize and develop this new network. Providing learning methods and building a network takes time and must be relevant for their everyday leadership practice. The significant of their leadership practice and how to practically accumulate experience as the basis for reflection was thought, but still needs to be applied in their leadership. Bridging the teaching and learning gap is not just about providing learning and reflection methods, but it´s about learning how to apply new knowledge through experiences, where reflections ensures that learning in practice not being 'due to change'.

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Context-Specific Issues and Challenges of Policing in the Pacific

Watson

Howes

Dinnen

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Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies

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Issues and challenges are not uncommon to policing organisations across the globe. For those in Pacific Islands countries and territories (PICTs), common issues such as functioning in a limited or resource-constrained environment and adapting to continuously increasing stakeholder demands are further compounded by geographic context. The region presents unique policing spaces, which means that policing challenges characterised as normal or conventional must be dealt with alongside unconventional policing issues specific to PICTs with varied governance arrangements, strained resources, diverse cultures and traditions, reliance on external support, spaces that are policed by alternative means, and large and often fragmented jurisdictions. This chapter provides an overview of the challenges faced by police organisations in PICTs and shows that policing in these contexts is as much about improvisation as it is about discretion and professional practice. It establishes a context for later discussions about crime in PICTs; formal and informal policing roles across the region underscored by geography, tradition, culture, and religion; international policing agendas; and contemporary shifts in arguments about women in policing.

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Fostering Police Leadership Capacity in Solomon Islands: Understanding the Challenges to Organizational Reform

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

How Police Leaders Learn to Lead

How Police Leaders Learn to Lead

Learning how to lead police investigations

Context-Specific Issues and Challenges of Policing in the Pacific

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