INTERNAL COMMUNICATION IN POLICE FORCE

2012 ◽  
Vol 163 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Tomasz HOFFMANN
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Current Management ◽  
Vertical Relationships ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Adequate Communication

Internal communication is the cornerstone in police force. It improves its functioning, and also provides a framework for internal communication processes taking place in this organization. Without adequate communication in its various resources, police force is no longer useful. Hence, effective management requires the use of appropriate communication tools to support current management, the use of the appropriate methods of communication, motivation and support system using communication tools to identify the development needs of managers.The purpose of this paper is to present the essence of internal communication and its perception by police officers themselves. The author’s intention was to identify the function of internal communication in terms of informing and communicating between police officers. Furthermore, the author focuses on the communication processes that occur in the vertical relationships between individuals and the organizational units of police force. This is supported by the interviews carried out in the City Police Headquarters in Poznań.

scholarly journals Police reform in Scotland: What can we learn from the experiences of front-line officers?

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Hail
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Stratified Sample

Little is known about how front-line police officers navigate major structural reforms within their organization. The findings presented in this paper were collected as part of the first ever empirical study of the newly created Police Service of Scotland between October 2013 and June 2014. The findings discussed here are pertinent to the wider academic literature in that they fill the current gap in knowledge on how front-line police officers experience major structural reforms at a police operational level; by exploring the ways, if any, reform impacted on the routine delivery of local policing. This paper focuses on three main themes which emerged from the analysis of 68 interviews conducted with a stratified sample of serving police officers; front-line police officers, their supervisors and managers across two geographically distinct case study areas in Scotland. The paper highlights police officers’ concerns around a lack of front-line involvement in either the planning or implementation of reform, the pace at which the changes associated with reform were rolled out and the internal communication processes adopted throughout the reform journey, all of which they claim impacted negatively on their daily routines. This unique data was collected using a variety of qualitative and ethnographic research approaches including non-participant observations, walking interviews, documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews at the precise time major structural reform was being implemented across Scotland.

Kontrola i ewidencja mieszkańców Łodzi . Księgi ludności stałej i niestałej oraz księgi domowe (1864–1914)

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-317
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Chiefs ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Police Reports ◽  
The City ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
City Police

Despite changings forms and implementing provisions concerning registers, the essence of the record keeping system remained unchanged from 1810 until 1931. The record keeping duty lay with municipalities and communes, but in larger cities in particular record keeping was supervised by the police force. In the second half of the nineteenth century in Łódź it was precinct inspectors (from 1867 Land Guard officers) who provided city police chiefs with reports containing data on the number of permanent and non-permanent residents. Analysing the records and reports submitted to the police, I present how the authorities attempted to control the residents and what information about them they sought in particular. The police reports also provide an insight into the extent to which police officers were able to keep the registers in line with their recommendations and instructions. I point to the possibilities offered to scholars by an analysis of population registers. The registers to be found in the police-wartime section of the City of Łódź Records are one of the most complete collections of this type in Poland. I focus on the registers of permanent and non-permanent residents kept from 1864 and based on a detailed form.

Policing the British Empire on the Bund: The Origin of the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Cao Yin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
Modern Shanghai

Red-turbaned Sikh policemen have long been viewed as symbols of the cosmopolitan feature of modern Shanghai. However, the origin of the Sikh police unit in the Shanghai Municipal Police has not been seriously investigated. This article argues that the circulation of police officers, policing knowledge, and information in the British colonial network and the circulation of the idea of taking Hong Kong as the reference point amongst Shanghailanders from the 1850s to the 1880s played important role in the establishment of the Sikh police force in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Furthermore, by highlighting the translocal connections and interactions amongst British colonies and settlements, this study tries to break the metropole-colony binary in imperial history studies.

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.

“Laying Hands” and Learning to Touch and Grab in the Police Academy

2019 ◽  
pp. 446-468
Author(s):  
Brian Lande
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Hands On

Research on the formation of police officers generally focuses on the beliefs, accounts, and categories that recruits must master. Becoming a police officer, however, is not simply a matter of acquiring new attitudes and beliefs. This article attends to an unexplored side of police culture—the sensorial and tactile education that recruits undergo at the police academy. Rubenstein wrote in 1973 that a police officer’s first tool is his or her body. This article examines the formation of the police body by examining how police recruits learn to use their hands as instruments of control. In police vernacular, this means learning to “lay hands” (a term borrowed from Pentecostal traditions) or going “hands on.” This chapter focuses on two means of using the hands: searching and defensive tactics. It describes how instructors teach recruits to use their hands for touching, manipulating, and grabbing the clothing and flesh of others to sense weapons and contraband. It also examines how recruits are taught to grab, manipulate, twist, and strike others in order to gain control of “unruly” bodies. It concludes by discussing the implications of “touching like a cop” for understanding membership in the police force.

Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Singh
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Police Corruption ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Political Economic

This book provides a unique study on the lower ranks of the Afghan police force due to the lack of empirical evidence of what attributes to the causes, practices and consequences of corruption in this institution. The book is divided into a number of sections. It commences with an understanding of how corruption, and narrowly police corruption, impact on the police force, state legitimacy and the strategies in place to mitigate such problems as part of broader security and post-conflict reconstruction initiatives. The theoretical framework comprises political, economic and cultural drivers of police corruption by drawing on semi-structured interviews with elites and a survey and structured interview conducted with street-level police officers. The findings infer that weak oversight and low pay are causes of police corruption which intensify bribery and roadside extortion. The lack of professionalism, partly due to short and unclear training, and patronage are deemed as meanings of police corruption. In terms of motivation, there is no sense of pride in Afghan policing to fulfil a clear mandate. Moreover, non-meritocratic recruitment is prevalent which exacerbates local influences, loyalties and job buying in either high-drug cultivating or urban areas. To curb patronage, police officers are rotated to distant provinces but economic hardship is further increased when catering for large families with fewer breadwinners. The book concludes that the problems with police corruption and failure to combat it results in low public confidence and state illegitimacy which can support violent opposition groups to create further instability in war-torn societies.

scholarly journals Consistencies and Discrepancies in Communication Between Parents and Teenage Children About Sexuality

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (64) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresita María Sevilla ◽  
Juan Pablo Sanabria ◽  
Linda Teresa Orcasita ◽  
Diana Marcela Palma
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Barriers To Communication ◽  
Children’S Expectations ◽  
Socializing Agents

Abstract The family is one of the most important socializing agents in adolescent sex education. However, multiple barriers to communication within families have been identified. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize and understand the processes by which parents and their adolescent children communicate about sexuality. Two questionnaires were completed by 711 fathers/mothers and 566 male/female students in 21 schools in Cali (Colombia), and 15 discussion groups were formed. The results showed that conversations about sexuality focused on protection for women and on sexuality promotion for men. Furthermore, it was found that greater fluency exists in father/son and mother/daughter conversations. The largest discrepancy between parents and teenagers was the adults' belief that it is sufficient to mention certain topics in a directive manner and the children's expectations that parents will discuss the value and dynamics of the sexual experience. Embarrassment and lack of communication tools hinder communication processes.

Trials of loyalty: Ethnic minority police officers as ‘outsiders’ within a greedy institution

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby Peterson ◽  
Sara Uhnoo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Police Organization ◽  
Security Officers ◽  
Minority Officers ◽  
New Recruits

In this article we interrogate how ethnicity interfaces with the police culture in a major Swedish police force. While addressing administrative levels, in particular police security officers’ screening of new recruits, we focus on the role that loyalty plays in defining how ethnicity interacts with mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the structures of rank-and-file police culture. The police authorities, perceived as ‘greedy institutions’, demand and enforce exclusive loyalty. We argue that ethnic minority officers are rigorously tested as regards their loyalty to their fellow officers and to the police organization, and the demands made on their undivided loyalty and the misgivings as to their unstinting loyalty act as barriers to inclusion in the organization.

Communication Processes of Information Technology Executives in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela K. Hollman ◽  
Sonja H. Bickford ◽  
Janet L. Lear
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Chief Information Officers ◽  
Information Technology Management ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Successful Technology

This article seeks to explain the key variables of internal communication processes of information technology executives, specifically chief information officers (CIOs), at higher education institutions. By understanding the key variables that influence the IT communication process, leaders and administrators, such as the CIO, can better communicate with their stakeholders leading to a successful, technology-integrated organization. While others have sought to model this business-IT relationship using communication as one part of a model, this study focuses upon only the CIO communication process adding value to current information technology management literature. This exploratory pilot article offers empirical insights about how CIOs communicate within their own team and up through the executive ranks of an organization. It suggests that CIOs can be divided into two categories; these two categories, keying off of communication variables, appear to directly affect the ultimate success or failure regarding the integration of technology into the mission and vision of the organization.

scholarly journals Stress, Leadership Style and Internal Communication Among Teachers of a Higher Education Institution

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 518
Author(s):  
Maurício Benício Valadão ◽  
Valdir Inácio Do Prado Júnior ◽  
Sebastião Benício Costa Neto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Private Institution ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

This article aimed to understand the relation stress, leadership style and internal communication between management and teachers of a higher education private institution in the city of Goiânia-GO. To achieve this, the exploratory method was used, relying on the contribution of such teachers in a focal group. Through the results found, it is understood that the institution must elaborate a number of considerations towards the relation stress and internal communication. To do so, it is highlighted: the comprehension that the lack of a well structured internal communication fosters stress; and the use of strategies that contribute to the implementation of an effective internal communication. Estresse, Estilo de Liderança e Comunicação Interna entre Docentes de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior Este artigo buscou compreender a relação estresse, estilo de liderança e comunicação interna entre chefia e docentes de uma instituição de ensino superior privada na cidade Goiânia-GO. Para a sua consecução foi utilizado o método exploratório, contando com a contribuição dos docentes em um grupo focal. Por meio dos resultados encontrados, entende-se que a instituição deve elaborar um conjunto de considerações acerca da relação estresse e comunicação interna. Para tanto, destacam-se: a compreensão de que a falta de uma comunicação interna bem estruturada fomenta o estresse; e a utilização de estratégias que contribuam para a implementação de uma comunicação interna efetiva.

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