Policing: An International Journal: Volume 25 Issue 1

Between a rock and a hard place: RCMP organizational change

Curtis A. Clarke

Examines how the collision of neo‐liberalism and regionally specific social forces have created a specific manifestation of community based policing. The merger of neo‐liberalism…

Personalized policing: Results from a series of experiments with proximity policing in Denmark

Lars Holmberg

Describes the emergence of proximity policing – a Danish version of COP – and evaluates a series of experiments with implementation of the concept. The design and scope of each…

Community‐oriented policing in Germany: Training and education

Thomas Feltes

Presents data from two surveys and arguments in favour of a restructuring of the police service, in general, and police training in particular. Contends that to keep up with an…

Dutch “COP”: Developing community policing in The Netherlands

Maurice Punch, Kees van der Vijver, Olga Zoomer

Dutch policing has followed the three generations of community policing identified elsewhere. The paper outlines the three waves, arguing that progressive Dutch society has…

Community policing in Israel: Resistance and change

David Weisburd, Orit Shalev, Menachem Amir

The Israeli National Police began to implement community policing on a large scale in January of 1995. In this paper we describe the main findings of a three year national…

Community policing and the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary

Jim Smyth

In deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland the question of police reform cannot be divorced from broader political issues. This article looks at the connections between…

Community policing in the Caribbean: Context, community and police capability

Ramesh Deosaran

Examines community policing as a relatively new policing feature in the Caribbean. Compares the key expectations of such policies with the officers’ understanding of what such…

Teamwork – not making the dream work: Community policing in Poland

Maria Haberfeld, Piotr Walancik, Aaron M. Uydess

In January of 1999, following the philosophy of community oriented policing, the Polish National Police restructured its organization. This article presents results of two phases…

Keeping up appearances?: A community’s perspective on community policing and the local governance of crime

Tom Van den Broeck

Summarises and discusses findings of roundtable discussions on the opinions of the citizens of two Belgian (Flemish) cities about the policing and security policy in their cities…

Local security management: Policing through networks

Sirpa Virta

Anglo‐American community policing has been implemented in Finland since 1996 but there has been a long tradition of the community policing style, called the village police, since…