Community Policing

I have been involved in trying to deliver effective neighbourhoodpolicing for over 25 years and it has, at times, been a frustratingprofessional challenge. I joined Hampshire Constabulary in 1980as a young history graduate from Oxford University. The ConstabularyI joined was coming to terms with a huge influx of young officersas a result of the Edmund Davies pay awards that had significantlyimproved the pay and conditions of police officers. I founda police force that was in transformation. There were stillmany, particularly in senior management, who had been broughtup in     

Governance and Policing

The theme of this issue is governance, a term with multipleand often contested meanings. By governance, in its broadestsense, I mean those more or less systematic attempts to shapehuman conduct. In civil society, these can range from self-governancethrough prayer and exercise, family and commercial management,the organization of residential and religious communities, strugglesover turf by street gangs and organized crime networks, to paramilitaryand ‘terrorist’ networks. As radical feminists andevolutionary theorists argue, the core of collective governanceor state government is patriarchal. This is so whether or notthere is an effective sovereign     

Policing of Public Order

Most of this issue focuses upon the policing of public order,a police function performed universally, and yet strangely setapart from ‘normal’ policing. In some jurisdictions,it is the special role of dedicated anti-riot squads, but whetheror not it is performed by specialists or generalist officers,public order feels like a different type of policing. The obvious reasons for this is that most policing is a moreor less solitary activity, in which officers encounter membersof the public as individuals, whereas public order policinginvolves the     

论法国警务情报工作体制及对我国公安情报教育的启示

法国的警务情报工作具有自身特色,通过学习和研究法国经验,可以给我们带来如下启示:加强合作与交流、注重情报信息系统建设、突出情报分析的核心地位、确保情报信息安全对我国公安情报工作的重要性;同时,通过加强与实战部门联系、加强情报信息系统建设类的课程教学、加强情报分析的研究和教学、加强情报安全类理论的研究与教学以及优化师资队伍结构有助于提高我国公安情报教育水平。     

社区警务的社会学分析

20世纪70年代,社区警务出现于西方。在当今学术界社区警务依然是研究的重点。社区警务是一种新的预防犯罪的理念,它立足于社区,把警务工作的内容从打击犯罪转移到了预防犯罪。随着社区警务研究的不断深入,有必要对它进行社会学分析,以此来规范对社区警务的学术研究。社区警务是有组织的社会行动,是由各方社会角色扮演的社会互动过程,其本质是社会控制。     

Policing alienated minorities in divided cities

Minority groups frequently challenge the legitimacy of legal authorities, particularly the police. Without trust and legitimacy, the police encounter constant conflict and cannot function effectively. While past research has examined minorities’ perceptions of the police, national minorities provide an interesting and under‐investigated test case because of their inherent identity conflict with the state. The current research examines three factors to explain minority–majority disparities in views of the police: (i) police effectiveness and fairness; (ii) intergroup discrimination (termed relative deprivation in policing); and (iii) identification with the state. Findings from a survey of Jewish and Arab residents of nationally mixed neighborhoods in Israel (n = 394) suggest that while all of these factors account for minority–majority discrepancies in views of the police, perceptions of police fairness are particularly important. Furthermore, feelings of discrimination and low levels of identification with the state are less important than evaluations of fairness in explaining minorities’ negative perceptions of the police.     

上海社区警务建设刍议

上海公安机关在实施现代警务机制战略中以新一轮社区警务改革为核心,形成了警种联动、警社合作、警民沟通、外部考评四大工作机制,特别是在加强实体及网上警务室建设、推进警社合作、引入外部考评机制方面,为新时期密切警群联系、构建和谐警民关系奠定了坚实基础。     

Special Edition on Governance and Policing

This edition has a strong focus on governance and policing.Governance has been interpreted here with a broad meaning. Inthe case of Fletcher and Stenson's article on governance inLondon, it encompasses the whole process of government rangingfrom the Metropolitan Police's relationship with national andlocal government, their ability to control and influence theMetropolitan Police and the consequent complexity. Both thetheme and the article are timely. Not only has the UK Governmentin a Green Paper (Home