Community Policing in Contested Settings: The Patten Report and Police Reform in Northern Ireland

2008 ◽  
pp. 117-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aogn Mulcahy
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Police Reform

The PSNI and ‘Community Policing’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hearty
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
The Core ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Irish Republicanism ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
The Impact

This chapter critically evaluates how the interaction between memory politics and police reform processes shapes current views of community policing within Irish republican communities. Establishing the overarching context of post-conflict police reform within which opposing narratives on community policing are pieced together, the chapter critiques the impact that changes in police symbolism, police composition and the nature of the core policing function fulfilled by the PSNI has had on views of policing within working class republican communities. It examines how the Patten programme of police reform has interacted with individual and collective memory to fashion opposing narratives on community policing. The chapter suggests that there are currently two competing master narratives on community policing that prevail within modern Irish republicanism; the ‘critical engagement’ narrative proffered by those in favour of policing that uses the memory of past ‘suspect community’ policing by the RUC to frame itself with assertions of newness, change and of the primary policing function now being to provide a policing service to local communities and the ‘cosmetic reform’ narrative espoused by those who continue to reject post-Patten policing in Northern Ireland that uses memory in a more ideologised manner in order to dismiss police reform as an attempt to normalise ‘British’ policing in Ireland.

scholarly journals ‘The Hero Stuff’ and the ‘Softer Side of Things’:  Exploring Masculinities in Gendered Police Reform in  Timor-Leste

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Marianne Bevan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Capacity Building Programme

<p>This thesis investigates how New Zealand and East Timorese police officers involved in United Nations’ police reform understand and conceptualise masculinities. It explores how these conceptualisations compare to how masculinities are defined and outlined in United Nations’ gender policies. The United Nations have increasingly attempted to address gender in their policing work; however, within these policies, gender has continued to be equated with women and women’s issues while men’s gender identities remain invisible. My research contributes to emerging discussions about how an understanding of masculinities could be better incorporated into gendered police reform. I explore this through the case of the New Zealand Police Community Policing Pilot Programme (CPPP), a capacity building programme carried out within the wider United Nations Police mission in Timor-Leste. By speaking to New Zealand and East Timorese police officers, this research articulates how police officers themselves conceptualise policing masculinities and interpret how masculinities are framed in gender policy. My research finds that within both the East Timorese Police and the New Zealand Police involved in the CPPP, there is evidence of a variety of policing masculinities. These findings highlight the fluidity of masculinity and the processes that police officers can go through in order to challenge problematic constructions of masculinity. This provides important theoretical and practical insights into how positive masculinities can be promoted through gendered approaches to police reform. By investigating the ways in which the police interpret the United Nations’ approach to gender, this research finds that the continued framing of gender as a women’s issue in policy acts as a barrier to the police seeing masculinities as part of gendered reform.</p>

Police Reform in Northern Ireland

2000 ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Joanne Wright ◽  
Keith Bryett
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Police Reform

An institutional perspective of neighbourhood policing reform in austerity era England and Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-243
Author(s):  
Jack Greig-Midlane
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Managerial Roles ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
The Impact

In the austerity era in England and Wales, both socio-economic change and shifts in the policing field have triggered a range of police reform narratives. For resource intensive manifestations of community policing, police disinvestment in England and Wales has led to concerns of a swing away from neighbourhood security functions and proactive police work and toward crime management functions and a more reactive approach (Punch, 2012; IPC, 2013). The paper uses an institutional perspective of change in police organisations (March and Olsen, 2011; Crank, 2003) to highlight the importance of values and narratives in processes of reform, mediation, and resistance. The empirical element of the paper explores how changes in the austerity era impact on the reform and delivery of ‘Neighbourhood Policing’ and cultural storytelling in an English police force. The analysis reveals a discursive struggle over the principles and delivery of neighbourhood policing. Police in policymaking and managerial roles subscribe to narratives that suggest Neighbourhood Policing can be reformed to be more scientific, efficient, professional, and effective to counter the impact of austerity, but this is challenged by street level accounts of the impact of austerity on delivery as well as the distinctive cultural values of Neighbourhood Policing Teams.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Richard Martin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter introduces the reader to the book’s central endeavour: to make sense of, and critically examine, the social and cultural dynamics that animate human rights law in contemporary policing. The chapter introduces the reader to the general and specific context in which this project takes place. It begins by drawing attention to the emergence of human rights as a normative vision and regulatory basis for police reform across the world and considering the issues that arise from this phenomenon for scholars of human rights and criminal justice. The chapter proceeds to describe and explain the book’s case study of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, situating the study within the country’s post-conflict society, before summarizing how the book develops across its nine substantive chapters.

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