Police Management Research Articles

The Effect of Police Management on Crime and Officers’ Behavior: Evidence from Compstat

The Effect of Police Management on Crime and Officers’ Behavior: Evidence from Compstat

Mindful police leadership: Opening essential new pathways to 21st-century police leadership and culture

Canadian police managers are facing a series of daunting new challenges that will require significant personal resources to address. Growing research suggests mindfulness training, meditation, and other related contemplative practices appear to benefit leaders in other professions; however, little is known about how these practices may, or may not, be helpful for police leaders. This article contributes to this understanding by sharing results from an exploratory qualitative study that asked senior police leaders who self-identified as regular meditators to discuss how their practices might influence their leadership. Guided by a reflective thematic analysis approach and utilizing NVivo Qualitative Data Analysis Software, data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 11 Commissioned Officers from a large Canadian police service were analyzed for themes. Broadly organized by influence on job performance, relationships, and well-being, eight distinct themes were developed: enhanced calmness and self-control; better clarity and decision making; improved focus and efficiency; enhanced presence with others; improved conflict resolution practices; greater compassion and empathy; reduced harmful stress; and enhanced resilience and work/life integration. These results begin to extend the literature on mindful leadership from other workplace contexts into the realm of police leadership and suggest that meditation and mindfulness are beneficial practices that may open new and essential pathways towards 21st century police leadership and culture.

Structural Reform of Police Organization at Village Level Government in Bandung Regency, West Java Province

The research aimed to enhance the Police's performance in delivering exemplary community service and harmonize the National Police's structure with the Village/District Level Regional Government. The study employed qualitative description with SWOT and ASOCA Analysis. In Bandung Regency, there's a notable security vulnerability. The data indicates: 1) Potential disturbances exceed 70%, 2) Disorder threshold surpasses 60%, and 3) Actual disruptions are above 30%. Addressing this and to achieve structural synchronization between the National Police and the Regional Government, a strategy is devised titled "Structural Reform of the Police Organization at the Village Government Level." This aims to optimize police performance, resonating with the National Police's 2005-2025 Grand Strategy. SWOT analysis reveals 1) Strength in Leadership, 2) Weakness in Organizational Structure, 3) Opportunities within the Legal Framework, and 4) Threats from misalignment with the Village's Regional Government. ASOCA Analysis emphasizes several factors. Internally, it points out the Police Leadership's ability and members' loyalty. It stresses the importance of harnessing police resources and an Organizational Performance Improvement Program. There's a highlight on the intellectual prowess of police members and their potential to act creatively. Externally, the community's aspiration for better police service is noted. The Bandung Regency's distinct culture and traditions play a role. Challenges persist, like the misalignment of the organizational structure with geographical realities and limited flexibility in local Police management. Community participation and educational levels remain concerns. Lastly, the Village Police follows a "Line and Staff Organization" model. This aligns with the higher-level organizational structure, emphasizing task decentralization and role clarity, ensuring a robust hierarchy and efficient task delegation.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF POLICE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

The subject matter of the study is the conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological foundations of legal and economic aspects of administrative and legal support for the management of police activities in the context of economic integration. Methodology. The study uses general scientific and special methods of cognition. The dialectical method was used to analyse the essence of police management in the context of economic integration in both the legal and economic dimensions in a wide range of parameters. The analysis provided the basis for a multidimensional study of all the characteristic features of police management in the context of economic integration in economic and legal etymology. The synthesis created the basis for generalising the characteristic features of this police activity as a law enforcement agency. The formal legal method allowed for an accurate interpretation of the legal provisions defining the general and special legal framework for administrative and legal support of police management in the context of economic integration. The article aims at defining the essence of administrative and legal support for management of police activities in the context of economic integration and developing proposals for its improvement. The results of the publication show that the administrative and legal support of police management in the context of economic integration covers a number of comprehensive measures in various areas of activity of the relevant police unit, primarily aimed at ensuring economic security. The paper identifies areas for improving the administrative and legal support of police management in the context of economic integration, with a significant emphasis on lawmaking. Conclusion. In the context of economic globalisation, so-called transnational crimes play a significant role, including the creation of and participation in organised criminal groups, corruption offences, obstruction of justice, and money (income) laundering. The National Police of Ukraine is taking a number of measures to counteract unlawful manifestations in the economic sphere, which are largely components of transnational crime, by implementing appropriate management measures. In the context of administrative and legal support of the National Police, the article examines the structural elements of transnational crime and the powers of the police in this area. Some aspects related to combating crimes committed by organised groups and criminal organisations, corruption offences, economic crimes and the prevention of economic crime were highlighted. In order to overcome the negative manifestations of economic crime in the conditions of economic integration, relevant measures have been proposed, including: participation in legislative work, which should primarily incorporate the best practices of the international community in this area; development of the concept of service activities, which mediate the form and content of law enforcement activities in the economic sphere; improvement of management activities in combating manifestations of corruption in the economic sphere; creation of a qualified personnel potential in the relevant units of the National Police, whose activities are aimed at ensuring economic security in accordance with the above directions, etc. The paper provides proposals for improving the legislative definition of the concept of economic security and delineating the competence of national security entities in this area, including police units.

Enhancing Knowledge-Based Professional Management of Auxiliary Police in Mega-cities: Challenges and Solutions

Enhancing Knowledge-Based Professional Management of Auxiliary Police in Mega-cities: Challenges and Solutions

Are organisational responses by police forces appropriate to adequately safeguard police officer wellness? A review of the scientific evidence

PurposeA central tenet for safer communities is having a healthy police force. This study aims to understand what police forces should and need to be doing to safeguard police officer wellness by examining the existing scientific evidence on police well-being.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Articles, this paper has adopted a case study approach to examine effective practices and approaches for safeguarding police officer wellness.FindingsThe research presented in this paper yields fours themes, providing contemporary evidence for responding to and safeguarding police officer wellness.Practical implicationsThis paper yields several implications for policy and practice. An evidence-based approach to be adopted by policing organisations for dealing with police officer wellness. An improvement to police officer support and prevention of stigma towards those who are suffering from poor mental health. Training for police managers in dealing with police officer wellness. Continuous monitoring and evaluation of police organisation efficacy in dealing with police officer wellness.Originality/valueMuch has been written about police officer mental health and well-being over the past decade, yet arguably, there has been limited attention paid to assessing the evidence and making sense of what this growing volume of research is advocating. This paper seeks to address this deficit in the research and provide a review of the published research with regards to police wellness.

Preferences of the Lesser Poland Police Management Staff in Terms of the Styles Used to Manage Officers

Preferences of the Lesser Poland Police Management Staff in Terms of the Styles Used to Manage Officers

Integration of Metaverse Technology Into the Police Academy Education and Training System

This study explores the potential of integrating the metaverse into police colleges for education and training purposes. The metaverse, considered a futuristic educational platform, is investigated for its viability. The study employs a two-pronged approach involving a review of 13 relevant studies and a survey to gather qualitative data on metaverse usage. The findings reveal a strong willingness to embrace the metaverse, dissatisfaction with current police education programs, inadequate preparedness of cadets after training, and various potential applications of the metaverse in police education, sports training, military training, professional policing, and data management. Recommendations include metaverse adoption in police institutions, thorough risk assessment, and comprehensive training for educators.

POLICE RECORD MANAGEMENT: IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY POLICE PERSONNEL IN THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE

This paper primarily sought to determine the extent of effectiveness of police records management in the first congressional district of Zamboanga del Norte. This study employed a quantitative method which included descriptive-survey and descriptive-correlational. There were thirty (30) respondents in the study. Frequency count and per cent, weighted mean, Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal-Wallis H Test, and Spearman rank-order correlation were the statistical tools used in the study. The study revealed that the level of respondents' perception level on the attributes of records management, specifically in records creation, records retention and disposition, records storage and maintenance, records access and retrieval, and appropriate use of technology and records management programs is “very much effective" rating. However, the level of respondents' perception level on archival records is "much effective." Moreover, the problems encountered by police personnel in managing police records are not serious and the extent of the factors precipitating the police personnel problems encountered in managing police records is to the least extent. Furthermore, there was no relationship between police record management attributes and record management problems. It signifies that the police records officers' highly effective management of police records had nothing to do with their less severe management issues. In other words, police officers who claimed to be highly competent at handling police records did not necessarily have major issues doing so. Keywords: Police personnel records management, recordkeeping

Blockchain-enabled police management framework for securing police data

Blockchain-enabled police management framework for securing police data

Hot climates in urban South Asia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi

Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few people working in the outdoor spaces of the South Asian city today understand or experience shade in these terms. Rather shade is something that must be claimed, alongside other rights and entitlements. Moreover, shade alone is insufficient as it cannot reduce the exposure of bodies to harmful ambient radiations and overall thermal discomfort. This paper makes three broad propositions for outlining a theory for the social study of shade in the South Asian city. By paying closer attention to the ways that outdoor workers negotiate shade in Karachi, this paper opens up for analysis a wider spectrum of claims-making activity in changing South Asian urban climates. It places workers’ search for shade in the broader context of shade policing and urban management aimed at creating spatial as well as social order. Finally, this article emphasises key directions and questions for future research.

The Impacts of Guanxi: Drug Policing Under Police Professionalisation in China

Guanxi is a ubiquitous, intricate, and enduring characteristic of Chinese society and permeates virtually every aspect of Chinese life. Drug policing is no exception. This study attempts to clarify the concept of guanxi and illustrate how guanxi affects police professionalisation in China through observing drug policing conducted by two Anti-Drug Squads and one Anti-Drug Corps in Jixiang City in China and interviewing 25 anti-drug police officers. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. This article defines guanxi as a long-term, interpersonal, and transmittable relationship that is connected by ganqing (affective bonds) and renqing (instrumental bonds). It involves mianzi (face and reputation) maintenance and social reciprocity. It highlights the importance of the Guanxi Base, which has often been omitted in previous literature. It argues that guanxi may result in unfair police management and give rise to renqing cases that undermine police professionalisation and the rule of law. Furthermore, it is argued that police professionalisation may bring about some resistance to political interference, particularly when it violates the law. However, guanxi operates smoothly within legal boundaries during drug policing.

The police officer’s interpretation of public safety, cooperation skills and the definition of public safety problems in Fejér County based on interviews with police leaders

Aim: As part of the doctoral research of Árpád Budavári, the authors investigated the understanding of security, the definition of security problems and the willingness to cooperate of police officers by surveying the police officers of the Fejér County Police Headquarters in 2021 and 2022, and by interviewing police managers. The interviews were also used to examine the organisational change needs of police managers.Methodology: According to the hypothesis of the research, a police reform focusing on the decentralization, demilitarization and depolitization of the police is not the necessarily way to renew the Hungarian police force. The police show signs of cooperative problem solving with the communities of society, and the intervention needs can be identified, which can lead to the development of the problem sensitivity and cooperative competences of the police. The interviews with 19 heads of the county police headquarters, which were conducted to examine these hypotheses, form an evaluable unit in themselves, which are summarised in this paper.Findings: The county's police leaders show a unified image in that they pay attention to the signals coming from the protected communities when dealing with public safety problems, their cooperation skills with the communities have developed and have become part of their daily work. They rate the large number of central tasks as a significant difficulty. At the same time, there is a lack of unity of will and demand for change in the police organisation, neither in terms of the fact of change nor in terms of the way it should be implemented.Value: The experience of the interviews can be used as an input for the police diagnosis of the present conditions and the needs for change by exploring the police officers' willingness to cooperate and their attitude to change.

협력적 위기관리 경찰활동에 관한 탐색적 연구

To minimize the damage caused by natural and social disasters, the government will come up with a reform of the existing disaster safety management system. Establishing an organic system of cooperation between police, firefighting, and local governments to enhance the on-site response will be in the central issue of the reform. Furthermore, the rapid changes in security environment and the increased possibility of uncertain large disasters make it necessary to systematically enhance police activities at each stage of crisis management. In addition, a leadership approach centered on police activities and police management capabilities will be crucial for successful crisis management. By examining the crisis management system in the U.S. and Germany, this paper draws implications for the role of police in the crisis management system in South Korea and claims that cooperative police leadership is essential for that system. Moreover, this paper provides with a list of capabilities necessary for police activities in crisis management as a basis for the future development of police capabilities model for crisis management.

Resilience policing and disaster management during Australia's Black Summer bushfire crisis

Policing landscapes are being transformed by disaster risks associated with climate change. ‘Resilience policing’ is described as an emergent model of security governance that builds upon established state-based community policing traditions to support the management of these complex risks and hazards. The assumption is that established policing capabilities might be harnessed to enhance disaster resilience. Empirical research on resilience policing is lacking however, and it is unclear whether this model is truly innovative, or simply a progression of established community policing models. This article explores these questions by considering how local police contributed to disaster management activities in a remote rural community which was directly impacted by Australia's catastrophic Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20. Our qualitative, empirical case study illustrates how institutionalized learnings, organizational and systemic reforms, and everyday policing activities enhanced the absorptive and adaptive capabilities of police as emergency responders, emergency management networks, and local residents. Our analysis indicates that a resilience policing model, anchored in existing community engagement and partnership-working methods, may hold promise as a means of enhancing the adaptative capacity of police and improving alignment between policing and emergency management networks. Less optimistically, it reveals potential obstacles to adapting this template for use in complex policing environments, sustaining institutional focus and adaptive capabilities amidst poly-crises, and aligning policing roles and mandates with transformative climate adaptation agendas.

Community policing and security management in Nigeria: A study of Abuja arterial routes and satellite settlements-Lugbe and Chika

The pattern of policing in Nigeria is still at the abysmal stage as many still see the police as enemies while the police are still overtly caught on tape, daily abusing and infringing the rights of citizens and extorting them whether on traffic, in motor parks or at police stations. This study leveraged on structural functionalism theory to interrogate the nexus between community policing and security management in Nigeria. The study focused on the Abuja arterial routes and satellite settlements of Lugbe and Chika. Study employed survey research design through a structured five point Likert scale questionnaire to elicit responses from 400 respondents as guided by Taro Yamane sampling technique. The study analysis tool was the ordinary least squares simple linear regression technique. Finding from the study revealed that community policing has significant impact on security management in Nigeria. The Study concluded that Intelligence gathering and surveillance must be constantly undertaken, which is important in order to ensure that law enforcement agents are proactive and can reasonably predict potential insecurity threats with near perfect accuracy rather than being reactive. The study recommends that government must devote attention to security intelligence, capacity-building to meet the global best practice and acquisition of modern technology. This will be attainable when the culture of good governance that makes responsiveness and accountability to the community a norm, particularly by law enforcement agencies.

Overlapped Bayesian spatio-temporal models to detect crime spots and their possible risk factors based on the Opole Province, Poland, in the years 2015–2019

Geostatistical methods currently used in modern epidemiology were adopted in crime science using the example of the Opole province, Poland, in the years 2015–2019. In our research, we applied the Bayesian spatio-temporal random effects models to detect ‘cold-spots’ and ‘hot-spots’ of the recorded crime numbers (all categories), and to ascertain possible risk factors based on the available statistical population (demographic), socio-economic and infrastructure area characteristics. Overlapping two popular geostatistical models in the analysis, ‘cold-spot’ and ‘hot-spot’ administrative units were detected which displayed extreme differences in crime and growth rates over time. Additionally, using Bayesian modeling four categories of possible risk factors were identified in Opole. The established risk factors were the presence of doctors/medical personnel, road infrastructure, numbers of vehicles, and local migration. The analysis is directed toward both academic and police personnel as a proposal for an additional geostatistical control instrument supporting the management and deployment of local police based on easily available police crime records and public statistics.

Sexual violence against women remains problematic and highly prevalent around the world

BackgroundSexual violence is far more prevalent in most societies than is usually suspected in daily life. However, no study has systematically summarized the global prevalence rate and the major outcomes of sexual violence against women.MethodsWe directed a wide-raging search in the PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science, catalogs since the beginning to December 2022 for relevant reports about the incidence of sexual fighting touching females. The occurrence frequency was assessed with a random-effects model. The heterogeneity was estimated with I2 values. Differences by research features were assessed over subgroup evaluation and meta-regression.ResultsA total of 32 cross-sectional studies were included (a total of 19,125 participants). The pooled sexual violence rate was 0.29 (95% CI = 0.25–0.34). Subgroup analyses found that there was a higher rate of sexual violence against women in 2010–2019 period (0.33, 95% CI = 0.27–0.37), developing countries (0.32, 95% CI = 0.28–0.37), and interview (0.39, 95% CI = 0.29–0.49). The analysis found that more than half of women (0.56, 95% CI = 0.37–0.75) had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing sexual violence, and only a third of women considered seeking support (0.34, 95% CI = 0.13–0.55).ConclusionsNearly one out of every three (29%) women around the world has been a victim of sexual violence in their life. This current study investigated the status and characteristics of sexual violence against women, which could provide an important reference for police and emergency health services management.

Explaining Police Procedural Justice in a Democracy: An Expanded Internal-External Model

Since procedural justice was proposed, this vein of research has gained much popularity in scholarship, empirical supports, and theoretical advancement. Yet, research on the procedural fairness within police organizations, particularly on the underlying and mediating mechanisms between internal and external procedural justice, remains understudied. Relying on survey data collected from Taiwanese police officers, this study expands the current literature by testing the direct relationships between supervisor, organizational, and social supports and external procedural justice and their indirect connections through supervisor trustworthiness and self-legitimacy. Supervisor and social supports were found to directly boost officers’ commitment to external procedural justice. Perceived organizational support promotes external procedural justice through cultivating officer self-legitimacy. This study concludes by discussing cross-border research and pragmatic implications for police training and management.

Chinese police and its support for the use of force

This study examines patterns and determinants of police attitudes toward the use of force in China. Using police use of force scenarios to elicit officers’ opinions about force used by other officers, this study finds that the way officers view police use of force vary significantly by officers’ age, education, and police division to which an officer is assigned. Regression analysis demonstrates that officers’ adherence to traditional police subcultural themes—code of silence and aggressive approach to policing—are prominent predictors of attitudes supportive of the use of force. The positive association between educational attainment and police attitudes toward the use of force is discussed in relation to China’s socio-political environment. Policy implications for police recruitment, training, and management are discussed as well.