Academic debates

, 1

Access

, 3

Allowance

, 104

Amazing Grace

, 130

Annual police reports

, 89–93

Apartheid police culture

, 24

Apartheid-based social institutions

, 25–26

Archaeological approach

, 4

Archaeology

, 85–86

Archives

, 4, 85–86

Automatic vehicle locators (AVLs)

, 75, 80

Avoidance

coping

, 104–105

of danger

, 104–105

Baile

, 38

Biehl, Amy Elizabeth

, 35

Bourdieu model

, 5–6

Bourdieusian approach

, 6, 28, 31

Bullet Resistant Vests (BRVs)

, 57, 67–74

detectives

, 71–72

TRT

, 72–74

Vispol

, 70–71

Bulletproof vests

, 68

Capital

, 5, 57

Casspirs

, 76

Cells

, 42

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)

, 28

Ceremonies

, 127–140

memorial services

, 132–133

order of events and narratives

, 130, 132–133, 140

SAPS funeral

, 128–129

SAPS protocols

, 127–128

South African funerals

, 127

Closed-circuit television (CCTV)

, 42

Cluster Crime Combating Forum (CCCF)

, 60

Coercive violence

, 94

Colonial police institutions

, 21

Communities

, 21

Community Police Forum (CPF)

, 139

Community Service Centre (CSC)

, 43, 49–50

Comrades

, 21

Conflict

, 83

Contradictions

, 150–152

Cop culture

, 8

Counter-insurgency strategy

, 22

Crime Administrative System (CAS)

, 86

Crime prevention

, 27

Crime Prevention Units (CPUs)

, 49–50

Cultural capital

, 14–15

Cultural knowledge model

, 13

Culture

, 8

Danger

, 1–3, 7, 22–23, 103, 147–148

allowance

, 104

Bourdieu model

, 5–6

contradictions

, 150–152

engagement with

, 110–116

Foucault model

, 3–4

juxtapositions

, 152–154

money

, 104

occupational responses to danger

, 104–109

organisational response to danger

, 104

overlap

, 154–155

in SAP

, 24–32

Sarbin model

, 7

spaces and places of

, 12, 15, 36, 47

tracing

, 11–12

Death

, 35

Department of Community Safety (DOCS)

, 38

Department of Correctional Services (DCS)

, 138

Detectives

, 64–65, 71–72, 79, 81, 98, 100, 108

headquarters

, 87

unit

, 50–51

Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks)

, 87–88

Directorate of Police Safety (DPS)

, 84

Dirty work of democracy

, 23

Discourse

, 3–4

Disposition

, 5

Dockets

, 86, 88–89

analysis

, 79, 85

Doxa

, 5

Driving

, 36

Ducking approach

, 105

Dumping ground

, 39

Easing

, 105

Edgework

, 18

Edgeworkers

, 108–109

Engagement with danger

, 110–116

Equipment

, 58

Ethnography

, 74

Excused avoidance

, 105–108

Fear

, 100–101

Fields

, 5, 57, 148–149

Fieldwork

, 83

Firearms

, 57–58, 67

detectives

, 64–65

TRT

, 65–67

Vispol

, 61–64

Firearms Liquor and Second-hand Goods Control unit (FLASH unit)

, 49–50

Formal organisation

, 8

Foucauldian approach

, 148

Foucault model

, 3–4

Frontline officers

, 104

Funerals

, 127–140

Gender

, 35–36

Genealogical analysis

, 4, 148

Global positioning system (GPS)

, 75

Goldstone Commission

, 22

Habitus

, 5, 57, 148–149

in action

, 15–18

Homicides

, 2, 83

Identity

, 94

Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID)

, 95–96

Informal organisation

, 8

Inside spaces

, 43–47

Insider

, 6

Institute of Security Studies (ISS)

, 84–85

Interpersonal violent crime

, 23

Interviews

, 48

Isixhosa

, 33–34

Juxtapositions

, 152–154

Khayelitsha Commission

, 26–27

Language

, 52

Legitimacy

, 21

Material artefacts of police work

, 57–58

Memorialisation

, 119

ceremonies

, 127–140

physical monuments

, 119–123

SAPS National Police Monument

, 120–121

SAPS Western Cape Police Monument

, 121–123

spontaneous memorials and monuments

, 140–144

theorising police funerals, memorial services and monuments

, 123–127

Memorials

, 127–140

monuments

, 119–120

services

, 132–133

Metro Police Departments and Traffic Departments

, 138

Militarisation

, 149–150

Monuments

, 119–120

Multi-Disciplinary Committee (MDC)

, 84

Murder rate

, 2

Murders

, 2

Necklacing

, 115–116

Nyala

, 75–76

Objectified cultural capital

, 57

Objective relations of power

, 57–58

Occupational behaviours

, 103

Occupational culture

, 5–6, 8–9, 147

Occupational responses to danger

, 104–109

Order of events and narratives

, 130, 132–133, 140

Organisational behaviours

, 103

Organisational culture

, 5–6, 9, 147–148

Organisational response to danger

, 104

Outside spaces

, 41–43

Overlap

, 154–155

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)

, 42

Participation

, 143

People and places

, 33–34

police

, 47–52

spaces and places of danger

, 36–47

township culture

, 52–55

Umhlungu!

, 33–36

Physical dockets

, 86

Physical monuments

, 119–123

Police

, 47–52

avoidance

, 104–105

brutality in South Africa

, 1

death

, 148

dockets

, 85–86

habitus

, 103

identity kit

, 57–58

monuments

, 120

murders

, 3, 147

organisations

, 3

practices

, 1

responses

, 5

Police Advisory Committee (PAC)

, 84

Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU)

, 137–138

Police culture

, 8–9, 36–37

occupational culture

, 8–9

organisational culture

, 9

Police Death Rate (PDR)

, 2

Police funerals

drama

, 126

and memorials

, 119

Police station

, 41–47

outside spaces

, 41–43

inside spaces

, 43–47

Police vehicles

, 74–82

detectives

, 79–81

TRT

, 81–82

Vispol

, 77–79

Policing

, 5

dangerous history

, 9–18

habitus in action

, 15–18

spaces and places of danger

, 12–15

tracing danger

, 11–12

Political freedom

, 23

Political violence

, 22

Politics

, 21

Power

, 6, 21

Professionalism

, 31

Public debates

, 1

Race

, 33–34

Racial legislation

, 22

Radió Teleifìs E´ireann (RTE)

, 125–126

Records

, 85–93

Reflexive approach

, 6

Reflexivity

, 31–32

Relationships

, 113–114

Reports

, 85–93

Respect

, 30, 93, 101

Rites

, 123–125

Rituals

, 123–125

Role-relationship

, 93–94

Rolls of honour

, 90

Routine violence

, 93–101

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)

, 11

Sangomas

, 52–55

Sarbin model

, 7

Sarbinian analysis

, 31–32

Self-critical knowledge

, 6

Service delivery protest

, 111–112

Shebeens

, 52–55

Site

, 11

Slagpaal

, 40

Smileys

, 52–55

Social Justice Coalition (SJC)

, 26

South Africa

, 22

South African funerals

, 127

South African Police (SAP)

, 21

danger in

, 24–32

power, politics, comrades and communities

, 21

South African Police Service (SAPS)

, 2–3, 21, 138

culture and place

, 28–31

firearms

, 59

funeral

, 128–129

history

, 21–24

National Police Monument

, 120–121

protocols

, 127–128

research on SAPS murders

, 84–85

roles, relationships and danger

, 31–32

tracing

, 24–28

Western Cape Police Monument

, 121–123

South African Policing Unit (SAPU)

, 138

Spaces and places of danger

, 36–47

Spectacular violence

, 93–101

Spontaneous memorials

, 127–140

and monuments

, 140–144

Station

, 27

Stormtroopers of Apartheid

, 22

Strategic avoidance

, 108

Symbols

, 125–127

Tactical Response Team (TRT)

, 19, 51–52, 65, 67, 72, 74, 81–82, 100–101, 108–109

Text analysis

, 91

Theories

, 3

Townships

, 33, 37, 41, 148

culture

, 52–55

sangomas, shebeens and smileys

, 52–55

Trade tools

BRVs

, 67–74

firearms

, 58–67

material artefacts of police work

, 57–58

police identity kit

, 58

police vehicles

, 74–82

Trust

, 113–114

Umhlungu!

, 33–36

Uncertainty avoidance

, 105

Uniforms

, 57

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

, 2

Vehicles

, 57–58

Very important people guests (VIP guests)

, 128–129

Vigil

, 110

Vigilante punishment

, 106

Vigilantism

, 106

Violence

, 1–2, 22–23, 28–30, 83

workers

, 22–23

Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU)

, 38

Visible Policing (Vispol)

, 19, 49–50, 61, 64, 70–71, 77, 79, 105, 108, 149

violence

, 96–98

Weapons

, 58–59

Western Cape monument

, 122

Western Cape Organisational Development Unit (WCOD)

, 86

Western Cape Province

, 83–84

Witchcraft

, 53–54