Policing: An International Journal: Volume 33 Issue 3

Officer's perception of organizational arrangements and preventive policing practice: An open‐system approach to South Korean police departments

Chang‐Hun Lee, Jung‐Mi Kim, Jong‐Gil Kim

The aim of the current study is three‐fold: it aims to empirically investigates the relationship between officers' perceptions on organizational structure and preventive policing…

An empirical exploration of the dimensionality of inter‐employee trust in police organizations

E.S. Ralston, S.A. Chadwick

The police force in the USA is a unique organizational type that combines structural traits of military and professional bureaucracy. The specifics of police work require high…

A street‐drug elimination initiative: the law enforcement perspective

James M. Frabutt, M. Kristen Hefner, Kristen L. Di Luca, Terri L. Shelton, Lynn K. Harvey

The purpose of this study is to elucidate the elements, developmental stages, and operational steps of an open‐air drug market intervention employed in two North Carolina…

Widening the scope on complaints of police misconduct

Kimberly D. Hassell, Carol A. Archbold

This study aims to examine the relationship between officer characteristics, productivity levels, situational context, the complaint process and allegations of police misconduct…

Policing and effects‐based operations: modelling methamphetamine

Zhivan J. Alach

The aim of this paper is to identify a way by which the concepts of effects‐based operations (EBO), an approach to problem solving derived from military thought, might be applied…

Interagency collaboration: An administrative and operational assessment of the Metro‐LEC approach

Julie Schnobrich‐Davis, William Terrill

The purpose of this paper is to examine an interagency collaboration (The Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council – Metro‐LEC), consisting of 42 law enforcement agencies that provide…

Making domestic violence arrests: a test of expectancy theory

Richard R. Johnson

The purpose of this paper is to use expectancy motivation theory to test the influence of organizational work environment on aggregate patrol officer arrest activity with regard…

The code of silence and disciplinary fairness: A comparison of Czech police supervisor and line officer views

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Tara O'Connor Shelley

This paper aims to explore how police officer rank affects the relation between the extent of the code of silence and views of discipline fairness.

Unanalyzed evidence in law-enforcement agencies: a national examination of forensic processing in police departments

Angela K. Reitler

Covert Human Intelligence Sources: The “Unlovely” Face of Police Work

David A. Licate

Editorial

Lawrence F. Travis

Reporting crime to the police, 1973-2005: a multivariate analysis of long-term trends in the National Crime Survey (NCS) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Angela K. Reitler

Australian Federal Police

J.W. Carter II