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The training of police arrest and self-defence skills (ASDS), known as officer safety training (OST) in the UK, is assumed to produce highly skilled practitioners in the use of force. However, little is known about the nature and effectiveness of such training. The purpose of this study was to provide evidence concerning the structure and organization of OST, to begin a discussion about the effectiveness of training and to open up avenues for the development of training. Data were collected using a case study approach utilizing participant observation, interviews, and time-on-task analysis. Data suggested instructor-centric training based on behavioural education ideology where officers spent at least 50% of the time passive. Practice activities were organized without an agreed or consistent strategy that produced a curriculum delivered in a disjointed fashion resulting in unrealistic training that had limited officer engagement. The training also highlighted issues related to women officers with a ‘hidden curriculum’ reinforcing notions of women officers as different, inferior and objectified. The findings highlight a need to maximize practice time-on-task, which includes reality-based practice under pressure, and to review instructor-training provision, to ensure that instructors and those responsible for training are abreast of the latest developments in the training of ASDS, and more innovative pedagogy for the delivery of such training.
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The research question answered in this paper seeks to identify the role played by police in crime prevention. There are several parties involved in crime prevention. However, each one of them has unique roles that dictate overall success crime prevention. This research question is important since crime prevention is not the sole responsibility of the police. The latter largely plays the role of maintaining law, order and tranquility. Hence, even as we investigate the role of police in preventing crime, it is also worthy to note that each party in crime prevention cycle should execute his/her part well if efforts by police is to bear any fruits. Moreover, it will also be possible to clearly identify what has already been achieved by police in their quest to combat crime. Therefore, crime prevention by police may not be discussed in isolation or as a separate entity without integrating other stakeholders in crime prevention such as the immediate community. In a nutshell, while the police roles in crime prevention may be passive, the net outcome or overall expectation of the society is a peace and tranquility.
Crime prevention is a broader than lean concept as may have been perceived for long by the general populace. In simple terms, it entails either open or latent initiative used to eliminate, reduce or avoid crime within a given rural or urban setting. In crime prevention, there may be need to initiate and implement myriad effective policies. This can be undertaken by government of the day, individuals or other security-based agencies.
On the other hand, crime prevention is a broad issue that has many interested parties who are usually involved. Examples of such parties include correction centers, courts, individuals, government, police and other related agencies. These parties are supposed to work together with each of them performing their unique roles for purpose of attaining the same goal (crime prevention).
According to Ling et al. (2006), police, in any given community, may not be able to combat and prevent crime without the much needed help from immediate community. This calls for volunteers to offer assistance to police officers while they prevent planning and execution of crime. Indeed, it is the role of the police to create a closer and more cordial working relationship with members of the public through what is commonly known as community policing.
The role of police can also be defined within community level crime prevention program whereby police officers work as partners with a community. At the national level, police can devise crime prevention strategies and mechanisms that target major crime factors. This will undoubtedly reduce crime rate. On the other hand, obtaining volunteers who are always ready and able to work with the police depends on perceptions of citizens towards police officers and how they discharge their duties on a daily basis. As such, it is upon the top police executives to develop a capacity building and training program that will enable police officer right from the constable level to top management to deal with the ever rising crime rate. In any case, the primary mandate of any police organization has been to prevent and combat both current and emerging crime. they have done all that is possible over the years to make sure that there is crime reduction both in community levels and in the national levels.
The role of police officers in crime prevention in the twentieth century was carried out by the use of three strategies that helped them to control and prevent crimes. The operational strategies that were being used by police defined their roles in crime prevention and control. Random preventive patrol is one of the roles of police agencies used in crime prevention. In this role, police are supposed to be on patrol for the purpose of preventing criminal activities in a given area. The presence of police in patrol creates confidence in people and instills fear to criminals.
Another strategy that need to be implemented by police as one of their roles on crime reduction includes quick response to security alarms from the public quick response enhances trust and cooperation of members of the public on matters related to security. On the same note, police have the mandate of carrying out investigations on all crimes committed alongside apprehending culprits for the sake of guarding the rule of law. They can also be of great help in crime reduction by partnering with other security agencies and adopting their policy approach on crime reduction (Ling et al, 2006).
The use of partnerships that are involved in alternative policing strategies is yet another inescapable role of police. By partnering with other organizations, the police is capable of exercising accountability in service delivery. This may be achieved by strategically allocating specific roles to the police especially in crime prone areas so that it may easy to manage outburst in insecurity. Some of the duties which can be assigned to them include rapid response to optimize efficiency as well as a swift investigation of criminal activities to expedite the process of justice system.
The role played by police in beat teams is evident when they hold meetings with local communities as the local people assist them in identifying residents and in the meetings they analyze and identify crime challenges faced by community in a local level. Meetings between the police and community help in addressing factors that give way to crime at community level. Besides, both the police and local community can initiate awareness programs that tend to sensitize locals on how to keep safe and also identify as well as report crimes. The role of police in alternative policing strategy has resulted into improved public confidence towards these security officers and consequently reduction in crime.
According to Strossner (2003), crime preventing police officers are well trained and have a noble duty to educate community and engage them in crime prevention. Most of crime prevention officers get experience for several years in dealing with different kind of crimes which include robberies, burglaries, theft and fraud. For crime prevention police officers to be able to effectively deal with their work they attend trainings and classes which help in sharpening their knowledge and they gain more crime prevention techniques. Crime prevention police officers assist business people in the community to identify business risks that are associated with crime. The crime prevention officers lay down basic guidelines that are used by business men for the purpose of improving security and preventing crimes (Strossner, 2003). The role of police agencies is to provide free assistance to community policing which is a forward step towards crime prevention. Police officers provide information and services that are important for business security because they usually have crime data and they know which crimes are likely to occur in particular areas.
As Gary (2005) stated, police in their role of crime prevention have adopted new ways of detecting crimes from terrorist. The police departments develop intelligence on interpretation of foreign languages that help them translate terror plots. They translate documents and news from far countries and use the data to prevent crime attacks. The police commissioners identify police officers who are able to make good translations and have good experience and they use them to know what people around the world plan to do (Gary, 2005). By having the knowledge they are able to counter attack crimes before they are committed thus preventing crimes.
BBC (2011) illustrates that among the roles of a police officer in prevention of crime is to monitor video surveillance cameras that are used to help in controlling and prevention of crimes. They are supposed to make sure that all surveillance cameras available are able to perform their functions. Video camera systems under the control of crime prevention police officers ensure that operators of video cameras are well trained and equipped for their preparation in crime control. Using surveillance cameras promote prevention of crime because crimes that are yet to be committed and are in the process can easily be prevented and the people committing crime are easily traced.
There has been several complain from the public that most of the surveillance cameras are not effective and that crime prevention through their use has not been successful (BBC, 2011). Experiments of crime prevention using camera surveillance are underway which will see to it that crimes are monitored. The experiment takes a step forward in the role of police in crime prevention by being equipped with loudspeakers that will to stop and delay criminals until the arrival of police officers. The surveillance cameras equipped with loudspeakers will keep down criminal rate and eventually a certain percentage of crime will have been prevented. Video recording acts as evidence in court and it helps detectives in having clues and details of crimes committed.
The role of police in crime prevention as suggested by Ganapathy (2000), includes coming up with new crime prevention initiatives that act as machinery in crime prevention. One of the common crime prevention that has been used by the police is the use of community policing where the involved community play their role and police play their role. This acts as a tertiary role of the police officers in crime prevention where they are engaged in social crime prevention. The police also use realism and paradigms in crime prevention which acts as administrative criminology approach. This role is described as situational process of crime prevention and the police have used it to successfully protect crime in given situations. Crime initiatives that police officers come up with include conducting analyses that help in containing crimes. They look for any means that is available to conduct dispute resolutions which may be through arbitration or mediation depending on the parties involved and on their assessment. They also use court proceedings where majority of criminal cases are dealt with (Ganapathy, 2000). The use of high tech crime prevention is among police initiatives and they make use of high technology programs. In doing this, the police need to work with citizens who will have responsibilities of controlling the process.
Based on the above roles of the police, it is evident that reduction of crime does not singly rely on the number of police officers deployed. It has been concluded that crime prevention may not be brought down by increasing the number of serving uniformed officers. Nonetheless, increasing awareness to the public will help in crime prevention. Police officers are supposed to partner with citizens for better outcome in crime prevention.
BBC (2011). Russian paper argues video surveillance no help in crime prevention in Moscow: BBC Monitoring former Soviet Union , London: BBC World wide limited.
Ganapathy, N. (2000). Conceptualizing Community Policing, Crime Prevention and Criminology: A Singapore Perspective. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 33(3): 266-286.
Gary, F. (2005). New York’s Finest Linguists; Police Department Translation Team Takes Offensive in Terror War, Wall street journal , 2: 4.
Ling, R. et al. (2006). Participation community crime prevention: who volunteers for police work? Policing , 29(3), 464-481.
Strossner, J. (2003). Crime prevention: Law enforcement’s role in security: the Journal of Industrial Health, Occupational Medicine and the Surgery of Trauma, Occupational safety , 72(7): 52-56.
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I n the past 10 years, headlines have been dominated by incidents of police violence , from the tragic killing of Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and most recently Sonya Massey to the numerous protests that followed. These events have sparked a national conversation about the role and history of policing in the United States. The history of policing in the U.S. is neither linear nor monolithic. Instead, it is fragmented and developed differently in various regions. But one aspect of its history stands out clearly: U.S. policing wasn’t constructed out of a desire for public safety but out of a desire to preserve power and the status quo.
From its inception, policing in the U.S. has been a colonial project, with international dimensions that connect directly to imperialism. Early colonial formations of policing included slave patrols in the South and watchmen policing groups in the North. Slave patrols emerged in the early 1700s, designed to enforce slavery and prevent enslaved people from rebelling or escaping. These patrols were authorized to use violence and terror to control Black populations. In the North, early watch systems began in the 1600s, focusing on protecting property and maintaining public order, which often meant safeguarding the interests of the wealthy and powerful. The Texas Rangers, established in 1835, represent another early form of policing aimed at maintaining the interests of settlers and suppressing Indigenous populations.
The rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century brought about new forms of policing , including the use of police to break strikes and suppress labor organizing. The first major city police department was established in Boston in 1838, followed by New York City in 1845, and Chicago in 1851. These early police forces were employed to protect capital and maintain the status quo during periods of labor unrest, illustrating how policing has long been a tool of economic control. This trend continued into the 20th century, with police frequently called upon to quell protests and labor strikes, using violence and intimidation to suppress worker demands for better conditions and wages.
Resistance to police violence and legitimacy crises have played significant roles in shaping the history of policing. And historically, the response to dissent against policing has been to strengthen policing and embed it more deeply into the social fabric of everyday life.
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Governments, media, and mainstream social institutions have socialized us to believe that police are the only organizations that can effectively provide public safety. This belief justifies the idea that police need to maintain a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. For most of modern history, though, police weren’t seen this way. Instead, they were viewed as a violent occupying force serving the interests of those in power. For the communities targeted by police violence, the idea that police weren’t created in the interest of safety isn’t surprising. Police are said to be the stewards of public safety, but across the country, policing emerged in the 17th century as a tool of racial and class domination and control. The professionalization era of police, which began in the early 1900s and sought to address widespread corruption and the problems of policing, transformed policing practices but did not address the problems of policing: police power itself . The police violence we see today is not a fluke or aberration. The criminal-legal system today is not broken; it is operating exactly as it was designed to: as a violent tool of race and class control that protects very few.
The mid-1900s saw significant investments and efforts by politicians and police leaders that set history on a course where policing would swell in ways that few could have predicted. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on crime reinforced the public perception that local law enforcement was the only legitimate guardian of public safety. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act (LEAA) created a federal funding stream that expanded local law enforcement's capacity to acquire military-grade gear and hire more officers. Over the years, billions of dollars have been funneled into local law enforcement, allowing police to acquire more technology and equipment for biased crime control and protest suppression efforts. Despite differences in policing models, the use of policing to control and punish marginalized communities has remained constant.
Internationally, U.S. policing methods have been exported to support colonial and imperial efforts seeking to expand empire . For example, during the Cold War, the U.S. trained police forces in allied countries to suppress Communist movements and maintain control over colonized populations. This exchange of tactics between imperial armies and police forces highlights the interconnectedness of domestic and international strategies of control. The use of counterinsurgency techniques, developed by military forces to manage colonized populations, became a staple in American policing, particularly in managing protests and civil unrest.
Today, police and prison spending consume hundreds of billions of dollars that could be spent developing community infrastructures and nonpunitive alternatives to prisons and policing. The criminal-legal system, with its origins in racial and class control, has evolved to maintain the same functions under the guise of public safety. The police violence we witness today is not an anomaly but a continuation of a historical pattern designed to preserve power and control over marginalized communities.
In the 1960s, as political resistance grew, policing expanded. The violence of policing was widespread, and police used brutal tactics to suppress protests and maintain racial segregation and discrimination. During the civil rights movement, police violence was brought into the national spotlight, shocking the conscience of the nation and galvanizing support for the civil rights cause. Police employed attack dogs, high-pressure water cannons, and tear gas against protestors. These tactics were part of a larger strategy to repress activism and maintain racial segregation and discrimination. Police also enforced racial boundaries at parks, schools, modes of transportation, pools, and entire communities.
As policing expanded, law enforcement was given a large degree of latitude, enabling the mass arrest and incarceration of Black and increasingly Latinx people, a legacy that continues today. The professionalization era of policing that began in the early 20th century and the federal embalming of the 1960s with President Johnson's war on crime began shifting perceptions. This period marked the beginning of rebranding efforts—which some have coined police propaganda, or “ copaganda ”—that have positioned the police as crime stoppers and the stewards of public safety. These efforts, supported by federal funds, facilitated a rebranding of police from enforcers of marginalization and political control to perceived protectors of public safety. The promises of police to expand the category deemed worthy of protection and the idea that police are capable of reform further shifted perceptions. This expansion of policing and rebranding efforts in all areas of society led to the shift in public perception, portraying police as essential crime stoppers rather than instruments of social control.
Despite promises of reform, policing continues to focus on reinforcing power structures. These power structures center largely on capital and profit accrual, which have a history of organizing themselves along racial lines. Understanding the origins and evolution of policing in the United States reveals its true purpose: maintaining social control and protecting the interests of the powerful.
We must reimagine public safety in ways that do not rely on coercion and violence but instead focus on community-based solutions that address the root causes of harm and inequality. The rebranding efforts that have positioned the police as crime stoppers and stewards of public safety, alongside their historical and contemporary roles, underscore the need for a fundamental rethinking of public safety beyond policing.
Excerpted from the book BEYOND POLICING by Philip V. McHarris. Copyright © 2024 by Philip V. McHarris. Reprinted with permission of Legacy Lit. All rights reserved.
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Sergeant Mikhail Menshenin is trying to hush a screaming 86-year-old retiree while parrying her flailing swings. Menshenin and his partner were called to the woman’s apartment by a social worker, Lyudmila, who said the pensioner attacked her. “She’s gone completely mad,” Lyudmila said between sobs.
Back in the patrol car, calm restored, Menshenin was thankful the woman didn’t have her cane. “They’re lethal with those things,” he said.
Police officers Alexander Kuzminov, 23, and Menshenin, 25, patrol a district in southwestern Moscow. They speak proudly of their devotion to duty, but as officers in Moscow’s militsiya, as the police are called in Russia, they are members of an institution that is widely derided as hopelessly corrupt.
“I like my job. I get to talk to people, do good,” said Menshenin. “It’s tough psychologically, but hard work gets rewarded. The salary may not be great, but we get bonuses. If you do your best, you can make enough.”
Menshenin earns about 25,000 rubles a month, or approximately $850, which is a penurious sum of money in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and all the more so for a married man with a two-year-old son.
The low pay and lack of benefits pushes many officers into accepting bribes, and corruption has significantly tainted the reputation of the police. In the latest survey by Levada, an independent polling organization, 60 percent of Russians said they were dissatisfied with the performance of the police, and only 10 percent fully trusted the force.
It is the routine solicitation of small bribes, often after they are stopped for minor traffic infractions, that has so soured Russians on their police.
“What do you expect for the money we make?” asks Alexei, a police lieutenant in a different precinct who didn’t want to reveal his last name. “The good officers just take bribes for minor stuff. You know, a few rubles from someone violating immigration rules or something, just to make ends meet.”
A 2009 supermarket shooting spree by Police Major Denis Yevsyukov, which grabbed national headlines, prompted President Dmitry Medvedev to call for an overhaul of the police.
Staff cuts and pay raises were announced, while a new law on police was posted online for public discussion. To build trust, Medvedev suggested reverting to the tsarist-era “police” name rather than the current “militsiya,” or “people’s militia,” a relic of Soviet times.
The final law incorporated those changes as well as some suggestions posted online by ordinary people. An officer’s authority will now be limited to his precinct, people will be given the right to make a free phone call after they are arrested, and Russians will now enjoy their own equivalent of Miranda rights.
Medvedev also proposed significant pay raises to reduce the incentive to take bribes. The bill is set to come into force on March 1st.
Some lawmakers, however, are skeptical that the bill will curtail corruption or ease popular discontent with the police.
“Instead of a new force, we get the same militsiya with a new name,” said Gennady Gudkov, deputy Chairman of the Security Committee in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, and a member of A Just Russia, an opposition party, told Russia Now.
He said the pro-Kremlin United Russia party blocked attempts to subject the police to greater public scrutiny. “We proposed increasing public oversight via grass-roots organizations,” he said. “They denied it.”
Some senior police officials are also skeptical that the reform will usher in a new era, and said there needs to be a broad attack on corruption, targeting both state institutions and public attitudes.
“If we don’t reform other institutions along with the police and clarify who’s responsible for what, no staff cuts or increases will make any difference,” said Police Chief Yury Matyukhin of Moscow’s Southwest District.
Nikolai Petrov, a security expert with the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, also said the public’s low regard for the police was part of a “broader dissatisfaction with state institutions.”
“In my personal experience, there was nothing particularly bad about the police,” said Petrov.
Indeed, Matyukhin said few institutions have attempted to combat internal corruption as aggressively as the police. “I challenge you to show any government body in Russia that is doing more to transparently fight corruption and purge its own ranks than the militsiya is already doing,” said Matyukhin.
But Petrov said the militsiya cannot police itself and still expect to restore public confidence.
“What’s needed is outside control over the police – by public organizations,” said Petrov. “What we don’t have is responsibility like in the U.S., where sheriffs are elected and removed if they don’t do their job.”
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Introduction. When … the police officer is rolling around the floor of a public house in mud, blood and beer, their inability to cope with violent encounters becomes apparent (Buttle, 2007, p. 165).Of any occupation, the police are most exposed to violence (Waddington et al., 2006) with data from the UK alone suggesting 23,000 reported assaults on police officers in 2015/16 (Home Office, 2017).
Crime prevention police officers assist business people in the community to identify business risks that are associated with crime. The crime prevention officers lay down basic guidelines that are used by business men for the purpose of improving security and preventing crimes (Strossner, 2003). The role of police agencies is to provide free ...
Police are said to be the stewards of public safety, but across the country, policing emerged in the 17th century as a tool of racial and class domination and control. The professionalization era ...
Police officers Alexander Kuzminov, 23, and Menshenin, 25, patrol a district in southwestern Moscow. They speak proudly of their devotion to duty, ...
The Police of Russia (Russian: Полиция России, romanized: Politsiya Rossii) is the national law enforcement agency of Russia, operating under the Ministry of Internal Affairs from September 8, [O.S. 20] 1802. It was established on June 7, [O.S. 18] 1718 by decree of Peter the Great, and in 2011, it replaced the Militsiya, the former police service.
On July 9, 2023, Moscow Police Officers responded to a report of a fire alarm sounding in an apartment complex. Officers found the door was unlocked and, upon opening it, saw the apartment was filled with thick smoke, making it nearly impossible to see inside. The officers called out to anyone who might have been inside the apartment but