Police Family Dynamics

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Megan O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Community Support ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Performance Teams ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Police Forces

Chapter 5 describes and analyses the day-to-day encounters between Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and police officer colleagues. These encounters are important to consider in order to understand fully PCSOs’ occupational experiences. The pluralized public police in England and Wales are often described as a police ‘family’. However, just how functional and harmonious a family this is is shown to be variable between and within police forces. The chapter considers the reasons for this from within a dramaturgical framework, to appreciate fully the nature and organization of these face-to-face interactions. In particular, Goffman’s concepts of performances, teamwork, and regions will be used. The chapter argues that police officers and PCSOs operate as separate performance teams, rather than as one unified one, and that the relationships between these teams varies. In some areas, the teams worked in a complementary way, whereas in others, the relationship was competitive.

scholarly journals Where should police forces target their residential burglary reduction efforts? Using official victimisation data to predict burglary incidences at the neighbourhood level

Crime Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hunter ◽  
Bethany Ward ◽  
Andromachi Tseloni ◽  
Ken Pease
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Crime Reduction ◽  
Residential Burglary ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Neighbourhood Level ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Terrain Modelling ◽  
Modelling Approach ◽  
Police Forces

AbstractExpected crime rates that enable police forces to contrast recorded and anticipated spatial patterns of crime victimisation offer a valuable tool in evaluating the under-reporting of crime and inform/guide crime reduction initiatives. Prior to this study, police forces had no access to expected burglary maps at the neighbourhood level covering all parts of England and Wales. Drawing on analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales and employing a population terrain modelling approach, this paper utilises household and area characteristics to predict the mean residential burglary incidences per 1000 population across all neighbourhoods in England and Wales. The analysis identifies distinct differences in recorded and expected neighbourhood burglary incidences at the Output Area level, providing a catalyst for stimulating further reflection by police officers and crime analysts.

scholarly journals The postcode lottery of safety: COVID-19 guidance and shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for UK police officers

2021 ◽  
pp. 0032258X2110187
Author(s):  
Camilla De Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Police Forces

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes to police working practices involving the enhanced wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE), and ways of working inside and outside of police stations. The safety guidance released by the various government agencies has been conflicting, confusing and unhelpfully flexible, and there are significant discrepancies between some of the 43 forces of England and Wales. This article draws on primary interview data with 18 police officers from 11 UK police forces to explore the problems that officers faced in accessing appropriate PPE and the difficulties in obtaining and understanding accurate coronavirus health and safety information.

scholarly journals Understanding the Motivations, Morale, and Retention of Special Constables: Findings from a National Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 670-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Callender ◽  
Kathryn Cahalin ◽  
Sam J Cole ◽  
Luke Hubbard ◽  
Iain Britton
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Police Forces

Abstract Special Constables have an established history within British policing. The Special Constabulary has represented an under-researched aspect of policing, with motivations to join, morale, factors relating to length of service and reasons for leaving being poorly understood. This article draws upon data from a national survey of Special Constables undertaken across all police forces in England and Wales. The analysis illustrates differences in motivations, dependent on age, and length of service, with younger Special Constables viewing the role as a pathway to future paid employment as a Regular police officer. The results contradict perspectives that attribute attrition from the Special Constabulary primarily to changes in personal circumstances for Specials, demonstrating how such changes are less important than satisfaction with the experience of being a Special Constable. The article concludes by identifying the significance of the findings for future policy and practice in respect of the Special Constabulary.

The Individual Security of Polish Police Officers in the Context of the Usage of a Stun Gun as a Means of Physical Coercion. A Study Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (28) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Marcin Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Security ◽  
Stun Gun ◽  
Police Forces

The increasing brutalisation of society results in Polish police officers becoming increasingly exposed to threats to their lives and health. In 2016, 311 assaults on police officers took place. A secure police officer equals a secure state and its citizens. This is why it is so important for Polish police forces to be in possession of proper means of physical coercion which ensure their safety while on duty. The Act on means of physical coercion and firearms of 5 June 2013 specifies the range of the means of physical coercion permissible for use by police officers. However, the most important of these are individual means with which a police officer is equipped. Research conducted among Polish police officers demonstrates which individual means of physical coercion available to them are used most frequently for the purpose of ensuring safety on duty. Undoubtedly, the key measure is the object designated by the said law to incapacitate people using electricity, colloquially referred to as an electric stun gun, a stunner or a taser. This measure of direct coercion, present in the equipment of the Polish Police since 2007, is gaining in importance, as evidenced by the conducted research and the data on the use of electric stunner by police officers.

Implementing a Police Foundation Degree—Insights from South Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-361
Author(s):  
Colin Rogers ◽  
James Gravelle
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Similar Type ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Police ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In ◽  
Police Forces

AbstractThe recent announcement by the College of Policing in England and Wales that policing is soon to become a degree entry profession should come as no surprise. For the past decade or so, a professionalization agenda has slowly pushed police forces in England and Wales to recognize that policing is irrevocably changing. Police officers now need to be equipped with higher educational skills, abilities, and knowledge to allow them to function in a complex landscape. However, attempts have been made in the past to establish degree or similar-type programmes involving partnerships between police forces and different universities, with varying levels of success. This article explores a foundation degree programme in a partnership between a local police organization and the University of Glamorgan. It explores the rationale behind the implementation of the programme, its content, and its aims and objectives. It also critically examines the positive and negative aspects of such a programme, and will have resonance for the future.

scholarly journals RELIGIUSITAS DAN KEDISIPLINAN PADA ANGGOTA POLRI

Proyeksi ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Erni Dwi Octaviani ◽  
Amrizal Rustam ◽  
Rohmatun
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Relationship

Kedisiplinan adalah salah satu metode yang diterapkan dalam lingkungan Kepolisian. Dedikasi dan kedisiplinan yang tinggi dari anggota POLRI untuk menjadi lebih profesional sangat diperlukan untuk mencapai tujuan dan peranan POLRI. Salah satu yang mempengaruhi kedisiplinan adalah religiusitas yang dimiliki oleh seorang anggota POLRI. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara religiusitas dengan kedisiplinan pada anggota POLRI. Hipotesis yang diajukan adalah ada hubungan positif antara religiusitas dengan kedisiplinan pada anggota POLRI, dengan populasinya anggota POLRI yang bertugas di Kepolisian Resort (Polres) Kendal. Metode pengambilan sample yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling dengan jumlah sample 50 orang. Tehnik  analisis data yang digunakan yaitu analisis korelasi produck moment. Hasil analisis data diperoleh nilai korelasi rxy  = 0,747 dengan p = 0,000 (p < 0,01). Hal ini menunjukkan hubungan positif yang sangat signifikas antara religiusitas dengan kedisiplinan pada anggota POLRI, artinya makin tinggi religiusitas anggota POLRI, maka makin tinggi kedisiplinan anggota POLRI, sebaliknya makin rendah religiusitas anggota POLRI makin rendah pula kedisiplinan anggota POLRI. Dengan demikian hipotesis dalam penelitian ini diterima. Kata kunci: kedisiplinan, religiusitas  RELIGIOSITY AND DISCIPLINE AMONG POLICE OFFICERS  Abstract Discipline is one of the manners applied in the police environment. Dedication and high discipline of members of the police in order to improve professionalism is required to achieve the purpose and role of police. One that affects the discipline is religiosity of the police member. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between religiosity and discipline among police officers. The hypothesis proposed was that there is a positive relationship between religiosity and discipline on police officer at the Police Resort (Police) Kendal. Sampling method used was purposive sampling with a sample size of 50 people. Data analysis technique used was product moment correlation analysis. The results of analysis of data obtained correlation values rxy = 0.747 with p = 0.000 (p <0.01). This showed a very significant positive relationship between religiosity and discipline on police officer. It means that the higher the religiosity of Police, the higher discipline on police officer. Thus the hypothesis in this study was accepted. Keywords : discipline, religiosity

To the question of examining of individual and personal characteristics of a traffic police officer

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
Юлия Жимирикина ◽  
Julia Zhimirikina
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the presented research is to identify the relationship of individual and personal characteristics of a police officer with his professional tasks. The object of the study is to identity of a police officer. The subject of research is the individual and personal characteristics of a police officer. The hypothesis of the study is the assumption that the individual and personal characteristics of a police officer in his professional tasks generally affect the success of their professional activities. Research methods were analysis and systematization of the scientific and psychological literature on the subject of the research; analysis of documents (reference legal acts regulating the activities of internal affairs bodies, etc.); empirical research methods, namely individual conversations, included observation in the course of practical activities of police officers of various profiles. The novelty of the work consists in expanding, supplementing and refining scientific views on the relationship of the individual and personal characteristics of a police officer with the professional tasks being solved. The theoretical and practical significance of the research consists in the analysis of the existing approaches to the study of individual and personal characteristics, in the analysis of the specific features of the motivational - need and value sphere of the employee of the State Traffic Inspectorate; identifying the dependence of the success of professional activity on the individual and personal characteristics.

scholarly journals Police Amalgamation and Reform in Scotland: The Long Twentieth Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Davidson ◽  
Louise A. Jackson ◽  
David M. Smale
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Model Set ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Police Forces

This article examines shifting debates about police amalgamation and governance reform in Scotland since the mid-nineteenth century in the light of the creation of a single police service (Police Scotland) in 2013. From a proliferation of 89 separate police forces in 1859, the number had been reduced to 48 by 1949 and eight in 1975. Yet the move towards a single police service was far from inevitable, as comparison with England and Wales demonstrates. The idea of a ‘single’ or national force was mooted from the 1850s onwards in moments of unrest, disorder and emergency, but for most of the twentieth century it remained anathema. For the Scottish Office and Home Office as well as for many police officers, the move towards larger policing units was seen as desirable on the grounds of economy, efficiency, and professionalisation. Yet the assumption that ‘local’ control of police forces through municipal and county councils best enabled accountability and hence legitimacy remained intact until the 1960s, whilst the regional model set up in 1975 persisted for forty years. The article explores the reasons for this, focusing on the changing dynamics of the relationship between central and local government across the last 150 years.

Police Community Support Officer Culture in a Pluralized Field

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Megan O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Occupational Culture

This penultimate chapter of the book brings together the research described so far and analyses its significance for an understanding of the occupational culture of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) within the pluralized field of public policing. The two phenomena of institutional undermining and complementary/competitive teams discussed previously in the book are combined through a theoretical framework developed by Chan (1997) to analyse police officer and PCSO culture. This highlights the processes of developing and enacting an occupational culture through storytelling, and it highlights its artefacts (two distinct aspects of occupational culture which are often conflated). Both PCSOs and police officers experience these processes and generate cultural artefacts. The chapter explores how these processes and artefacts for the two groups, while at times appearing similar, have significant differences, which reveals a unique PCSO occupational culture.

Speaking Truth to Power

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Dabney ◽  
Richard Tewksbury
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Intelligence Collection ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Confidential informants have long occupied central role in the criminal investigation efforts of law enforcement authorities. Yet, there exists minimal contemporary scholarship to help illuminate the complex relationships and roles associated with covert intelligence gathering. This book draws upon a rich array of fieldwork and face-to-face interviews with police officers to provide insight into the confidential informant phenomenon. This concept of the police-citizen information exchange is set forth to account for the broad rubric of intelligence collection done by police. A four-part framework is provided to organize the exchange types based upon the motivations and goals that underlie the relationship. The utility of confidential informants is thoroughly explored, with attention focused on the potential benefits and pitfalls that follow. Detailed consideration is given to how officers recruit, nurture, and manage confidential informants. We argue that the police-citizen information exchange has become deeply woven into the fabric of contemporary policing, beginning with vice crime enforcement but emanating outward, so much so that scaling it back warrants a series of daunting practical considerations.

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