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University of Southampton
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2004
Abstract: With the transition to democratic governance in South Africa in 1994, the public service was identified as the key sector requiring transformation. This involved refashioning the types of delivery offered to the public and a complete renovation of labour relations practices and institutions within public service organizations. The police were expected to dramatically change their labour relations framework and practices to allow for increased ‘worker’ participation in decision-making processes and enhanced performance management. This article examines attempts at transforming police labour relations in one unit of the South African Police Service. Existing legacies of authoritarianism and police disciplinary customs and a lack of directive leadership from management have seriously limited this attempt at transforming police labour relations. This, in turn, has h ered the unit’s transition towards operating in accordance with the community policing framework that is supposed to guide the practice of the ‘new’ South African Police Service.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2006
DOI: 10.1375/ACRI.39.1.71
Abstract: Scholars and practitioners now recognise the importance of ‘governing through networks’ if policing agendas are to be promoted effectively and democratically. Central to such an agenda of networked governance is the identification or creation of community-based structures and processes that can be harnessed by, and linked to, other forms of governance in furtherance of security outcomes. However, notions of community have generally been limited to the ‘communities’ outside of police organisations. This article explores the idea of a police union as ‘a community of interest’. We suggest that police unions are ‘communities’ that have the potential to impact significantly on the governance of security. As ‘insider groupings’ police unions are engaged in complex networks of police management, policy decision-makers and civil society groupings both at the national and international level. Given their organisational status, police unions have the potential to constitute themselves as active, forward-thinking social agencies within policing network arrangements. But, in order to do this they need to move beyond the demands of their conservative social base and their preoccupation with industrial issues and embrace the changing world of policing. In addition, they may need to network with a range of agencies beyond the security industry such as social justice groupings and the broad trade union movement.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2000
DOI: 10.1108/13639510010333705
Abstract: This paper examines the implementation of new management techniques in Australian police services since the late 1980s, within an international context of demands for greater public sector efficiencies and accountability. Through an examination of police organisations in Queensland and New South Wales, the paper demonstrates that the impetus for organisational change, particularly in the context of employment practices has largely been driven by revelations of entrenched corruption and police misconduct. As a result, organisational goals of accountability and cultural change have been the critical influences on the restructuring agenda. The paper argues that management strategies should be suited to the specific organisational settings within which they are being applied. It suggests that the process of restructuring and the emphasis on changing employment practices have led to greater potential for conflict between management and police officers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1332/030557317X14957211514333
Abstract: This article explores the use of evidence and varieties of knowledge in police decision making. It surveys official government policy, demonstrating that evidence-based policymaking is the dominant policy-making paradigm in the United Kingdom. It discusses the limits to social science knowledge in policymaking. The article explores four ideas associated with the notion of ‘experience’: occupational culture, institutional memory, local knowledge and craft, drawing on data from four UK police forces. We discuss the limits to experiential knowledge and conclude that experience is crucial to evidence-based policing and decision-making because it is the key to weaving the varieties of knowledge together.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2006
Abstract: This (normative) article explores the importance of police unions in the quest for democratic policing. The authors argue that if we are to expect police to behave democratically, it is important for police themselves to experience democratic engagement within the organizations in which they work. That is, if police are expected to defend democracy, they should not be denied basic democratic rights such as the right to collective bargaining and the right to freedom of association. The authors contend that police unions, through networking with other social justice groupings and through encouraging democratic practice, constitute a real forum for the promotion of democratic policing. For this potential to be reached, however, police unions need to identify with broader labor movement trends toward community unionism.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-01-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 28-02-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-01-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13624806231184825
Abstract: This article draws on Incident Reporting System data from the National Offender Management Service over a ten-year period (2004–2014) and limited, small-scale interviews with four custodial managers. Pat Carlen's work (2008) on imaginary penalities provides the theoretical framework for an assessment of the reporting, recording and initial response to sexual assaults in prisons in England and Wales. The article argues that the recording of sexual assaults became part of a response to new management systems that emphasised compliance, process and audit rather than realising safety in custody. Although the data shows substantial levels of initial activity among staff it is, in essence, practice without prospect. The article suggests that outcomes generally for sexual assaults in prisons in England and Wales are uncertain. Incident reporting has become a bureaucratic process ‘or paper shadow’, which Goffman described as showing ‘what has been done by whom, what is to be done, and who last had responsibility for it’ (Goffman 1961: 73).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Publisher: Portico
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2000
DOI: 10.1080/713655344
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-07-2008
DOI: 10.1108/09534810810884849
Abstract: Efforts by police organisations to unionise and to increase their social and labour rights is an international phenomenon, and one that is becoming more vigorous in the Southern African region. However, many governments are wary of police unions and limit their rights, or refuse to recognise them at all. This paper aims to discuss the issues involved. The paper draws on face‐to‐face and telephone interviews, as well as e‐mail correspondence, with police unionists from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and the USA. The efforts of the unions involved gave impetus to the formation of the International Council of Police Representative Associations (ICPRA), in September 2006. Two of ICPRA's aims are to assist and advise police unions all over the world and to provide the international police union movement with a voice for influencing policing futures. In South Africa, the Police and Civil Rights Unions is assisting police in the subregion and has become a symbol of what is possible for police even in repressive states. The paper illustrates how, in a rapidly changing police labour environment, police unions have the capacity to confront existing (undemocratic) occupational cultures, to promote organisational accord and to forge positive reform.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2007
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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