Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Community-Oriented Policing in Turkey

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (14) ◽  
pp. 1946-1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bulent Uluturk ◽  
Ahmet Guler ◽  
Musa Karakaya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Work Orientation ◽  
Community Oriented Policing ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Orientation Training ◽  
Turkish Police

The current study aims to analyze the historical development of community-oriented policing (COP) in Turkey as well as exploring officers’ attitudes toward COP and examining factors related to their attitudes. The current research is based on a survey of 405 Turkish police officers. We focused on officers’ demographic characteristics, work orientation, training, the level of participation in decision-making, and perception toward public as a way of understanding officers’ attitudes toward community policing. Our research suggests that majority of organization members have favorable attitudes toward community policing and support it in general and in their own department. The results indicate a positive relationship between participation in decision-making, service work orientation, officers’ relationships with citizens, and police officers’ attitudes toward community policing. Furthermore, the study assesses the effects of police culture on officers’ attitudes in a highly centralized police agency and discusses the policy implications of our findings.

Community policing: training, definitions and policy implications

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Personal Service ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Information Element ◽  
Community Oriented Policing

This study surveyed 198 police officers of a single police department in Texas regarding their attitudes about the practice of community‐oriented policing (COP) and its characteristics. Training on COP, rather than training duration, was found to affect officers’ attitudes toward accepting COP programs. Using Cordner’s four definitive dimensions of community policing (i.e. philosophical, strategic, tactical, and organizational) as a model, findings indicate that officers have familiarized themselves with the tactical dimension the most, especially the police‐citizen partnership and problem‐solving elements, while giving lowest priority to the information element of the organizational dimension. Others including the broader police function, personal service, and positive interaction elements are also less emphasized. The study reveals several problems the officers see as setbacks in implementing community policing and concludes that all of the COP characteristics must be looked at in the context of a whole system rather than as separate individual elements.

Community Policing in Comparative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques de Maillard ◽  
Jan Terpstra
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
International Diffusion ◽  
Community Oriented Policing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policing ◽  
High Level

Community (oriented) policing has become one of the most popular models of policing worldwide. After its initial implementation in many Western countries, community policing has also been transferred to transitional societies, which often lack strong democratic traditions. The international diffusion of community policing should not make us forget that community policing comes in all shapes and sizes and is highly varied in its operations. After having defined the concept and analyzed its rise in Anglo-American countries, this diversity is illustrated by scrutinizing its implementation in different national configurations: a continental European country relatively open to Anglo-American influences (the Netherlands), socially homogeneous countries with a high level of trust in the police (the Nordic countries), a centralized country with an administrative Napoleonic tradition (France), and postconflict societies (South Africa and Northern Ireland). These various national trajectories highlight the common drivers and barriers in community policing reforms: political priorities (through emphasizing crime fighting or zero tolerance policing), socioeconomic disparities and ethnic tensions (which may imply a history of mistrust and vicious circles between the police and some segments of the public), professional identities and interests (disqualifying community police officers as “social workers”), and organizational resources (managerial procedures, lack of training and human resources) that may hinder the reform process. These diverse experiences also draw attention to the variety of context-dependent factors that impact the fate of community policing reforms. Political climates, police–government relations, socioeconomic inequalities, and police traditions may differ, which requires further analysis of the various political, historical, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts of specific community policing reforms.

scholarly journals The “Gray Zone” of Police Work During Mental Health Encounters

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Wood ◽  
Amy C. Watson ◽  
Anjali J. Fulambarker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
Police Responses ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Core Features

Although improving police responses to mental health crises has received significant policy attention, most encounters between police and persons with mental illnesses do not involve major crimes or violence nor do they rise to the level of emergency apprehension. Here, we report on field observations of police officers handling mental health-related encounters in Chicago. Findings confirm these encounters often occur in the “gray zone,” where the problems at hand do not call for formal or legalistic interventions. In examining how police resolved such situations, we observed three core features of police work: (a) accepting temporary solutions to chronic vulnerability, (b) using local knowledge to guide decision making, and (c) negotiating peace with complainants and call subjects. Findings imply the need to advance field-based studies using systematic social observations of gray zone decision making within and across distinct geographic and place-based contexts. Policy implications for supporting police interventions are also discussed.

Exploring the Duration of Police–Citizen Encounters

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengyan Dai ◽  
Xiaochen Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Community Oriented Policing ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Police Community Relations

Abstract Modern policing policy and practices emphasize the philosophy of community-oriented policing and the principles of procedural justice to improve police–community relations. Using this theoretical framework, this study examines the duration of police–citizen encounters involving domestic and non-domestic conflicts. A sample of 262 encounters from the systematic social observations in Cincinnati was analysed. The multivariate models show that officers spent less time interacting with the citizens in the lower social class and spent more time on the encounters involving assaults. Community policing specialists spent more time interacting with citizens. Considering citizens’ voice is also associated with longer duration. Policy implications of these findings are discussed.

Correlates of Chinese Police Officer Decision-Making in Cases of Domestic Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (11) ◽  
pp. 1556-1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinting Wang ◽  
Brittany E. Hayes ◽  
Hongwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Extralegal Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Police

The purpose of the current study is to uncover whether extralegal factors play a significant role in Chinese police officers’ decision-making in response to a hypothetical incident of domestic violence (DV). Data were collected from a sample of Chinese police officers located in southwestern China. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between the attitudes and beliefs of police officers and their decision-making in DV (i.e., recommend putting suspect into custody, victim into custody, and mediation; N = 514). The results suggest extralegal factors associated with culture do exert a significant effect on police officers’ decision-making in cases of DV, but the extent may be minimal. Policy implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Empowering Women in Blue Uniforms—Gender and Police in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanta Singh ◽  
Sultan Khan
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
South African Police Service ◽  
Female Police Officers ◽  
South African Police ◽  
Female Officers

Gender in the police force has received scant attention by researchers, although there are complex social dimensions at play in how male and female law enforcement officers relate to each other in the workplace. Given the fact that males predominate in the police force, their female counterparts are often marginalised due to their sexual orientation and certain stereotypes that prevail about their femininity. Male officers perceive female officers as physically weak individuals who cannot go about their duties as this is an area of work deemed more appropriate to men. Based on this perception, female officers are discriminated against in active policing and often confined to administrative duties. This study looks at how female police officers are discriminated against in the global police culture across the globe, the logic of sexism and women’s threat to police work, men’s opposition to female police work, gender representivity in the police force, and the integration and transformation of the South African Police Service to accommodate female police officers. The study highlights that although police officers are discriminated against globally, in the South African context positive steps have been taken to accommodate them through legislative reform.

"The Reality and Expectation of Mechanisms of Community-Oriented Policing for Reducing Crime in Palestine: A Field Study According to Police Officers’ Viewpoints"

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Abdulnasser .A Kaddomy
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Oriented Policing

هدفت هذه الدّراسة إلى التّعرف على ظاهرة إطلاق الأعيرة النّاريّة في المناسبات الاجتماعية في المجتمع الأردني، وتحديد المناطق التي تنتشر فيها هذه الظاهرة، والدوافع الكامنة وراءها من وجهة نظر سوسيولوجية، وأنواع الأسلحة الأكثر استخدامًا وأكثر المناسبات شيوعًا لاستخدامها، إضافة إلى القوانين والتشريعات الناظمة لحمل الأسلحة النّاريّة والآثار السلبية لتلك الظاهرة على المجتمع. وتكوّن مجتمع الدّراسة من مجموع سكّان قضاء برما ـ محافظة جرش البالغ عددهم (11.000) نسمة لعام 2015م، حيث تم أخذ عينة عشوائية بلغ حجمها (220) مفردة، خضعت جميعها للتحليل الإحصائي، وتم استخدام الرزمة الإحصائية للدراسات الاجتماعية (SPSS) لإيجاد قيمة المتوسطات الحسابية والانحرافات المعيارية لإجراء التحليل الإحصائي، واستخدمت الدّراسة اختبار (Chi_SquareTest). وخلصت إلى أنّ إقليم الشمال الذي يقع فيه مجتمع الدّراسة احتلّ المرتبة الثانية في انتشار هذه الظاهرة بعد العاصمة عمان؛ حيث كانت فئة الشباب الأعلى في إطلاق الأعيرة النّاريّة، وكانت الأسباب الشخصية أهم الدوافع الكامنة وراء تلك الظاهرة وكان الرشّاش الأوتوماتيكي المتوسط السلاح الأكثر استخدامًا في المناسبات الاجتماعية وفي مقدمتها نتائج التوجيهي.

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