Sector policing and public accountability

Dixon, Bill; Stanko, Betsy

doi:10.1080/10439463.1995.9964722

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“…75-77). The resistance to change is in a certain way quite similar to difficulties in reform experienced by many other police agencies (Bennett, 1994;Dixon & Stanko, 1993;Guyot, 1991;Lurigio & Rosenbaum, 1994).…”

Section: Limitations To Organizational Changesmentioning

confidence: 90%

An Institutional Analysis of Organizational Change

Jiao

Lau

Lui

2005

International Criminal Justice Review

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After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. This article examines the change of the Hong Kong Police (HKP) and related issues during this transition. Based on an institutional perspective, it is argued that the HKP's paramilitary traditions greatly constrain changes. Where change has occurred, it has been induced by an extrainstitutional impetus that is strong enough to overcome institutionalized obstacles. The analysis examines the HKP's paramilitary traditions, how it has been transformed from a systematically corrupt and oppressive colonial force to a professionalized agency at the time that the above transition process began, and how it has responded to its changed environment. The institutional perspective is used to explain the challenges the HKP faces during the transformational process and to discuss the general implications of the HKP experience for understanding organizational change.

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Section: Limitations To Organizational Changesmentioning

confidence: 90%

An Institutional Analysis of Organizational Change

Jiao

Lau

Lui

2005

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…The problem is the relief don't consider that anything which isn't rushing around in a car is work'. (group discussion 1) Conununity police are vulnerable to use as a pool of reserve labour (Dixon and Stanko, 1993). The CP inspector served as substitute relief inspector on demand, just as his constables were often delegated to relief cover.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community Policing: Fighting Crime or Fighting Colleagues?

Fielding

2001

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Community policing continues to enjoy much favour as a principal alternative to traditional, law-enforcement-oriented policing. A large body if research suggests, however, that it confronts a range if organisational obstacles. These obstacles arise largely from the endurance if an organisational form developed to support a law-enforcement-oriented approach, and which has engendered both working practices and an occupational culture inhospitable to the pursuit of community policing. Drawing on field research in the London Metropolitan Police and Surrey police forces, the paper identifies key obstacles to the delivery if community policing. It also indicates some of the conditions under which successful community policing can be achieved. These entail both changes in the organisational environment in which community policing is placed, and changes in prevailing conceptions if the nature and role if community policing. In particular, it is argued that community policing needs to move emphatically away from approaches based on community building and 'outreach', and towards a construction of community policing based firmly on its role in crime control.

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“…The operational policing review (OPR) of 1990 in Great Britain (as cited in Loveday, 1995) revealed differences between the perceptions of the public and the police of what should be the top problems for the police to focus on. In the study of Dixon and Stanko (1995) some respondents thought that police problem solving should extend beyond the confines of traditional definitions of crime. Citizens often worry about minor crimes, daily incivilities that disrupt and destroy the neighbourhood's daily life (Dixon & Stanko, 1995).…”

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“…In the study of Dixon and Stanko (1995) some respondents thought that police problem solving should extend beyond the confines of traditional definitions of crime. Citizens often worry about minor crimes, daily incivilities that disrupt and destroy the neighbourhood's daily life (Dixon & Stanko, 1995). In OPR (1990, as cited in Loveday, 1995 the public consistently favoured a view of police work as being in contact and working with local citizens above a view of the police as 'crime fighters'.…”

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What citizens think about the police: assessing actual and wished‐for frequency of police activities in one's neighbourhood

Salmi

Voeten

Keskinen

2005

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The aim of the study was to find out what were citizens' assessments of actual and wished-for frequencies of 12 police activities in two typical Finnish neighbourhoods. Data were collected from 3271 adults and 986 young people with a mail questionnaire. Actual and wished-for frequencies were separately analysed using Homals. Both analyses produced a dimension indicating the assessed (actual or wished-for) frequency of police work, disregarding the content of the 12 police activities. In addition, each analysis produced a dimension describing the tendency to give a 'don't-know' answer. The latter two non-substantive dimensions were interpreted as indicating that the general level of knowledge of police activities was not high among the citizens. When comparing the frequency assessments of ongoing police activities and the wishes concerning these activities, it was found that citizens wished the police to increase all cited activities, particularly foot patrolling, helping and supporting victims and giving crime prevention advice. Citizens appeared to be responsive to the activities related to community policing and preventive police work. All four dimensions were related with background characteristics of respondents (age, gender, city and living conditions), but these relations were not strong.

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Sector policing and public accountability

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

An Institutional Analysis of Organizational Change

An Institutional Analysis of Organizational Change

Community Policing: Fighting Crime or Fighting Colleagues?

What citizens think about the police: assessing actual and wished‐for frequency of police activities in one's neighbourhood

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