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1 results foundAuthor: Hoogenboom, A.B. Title: Bringing the police back in. Notes on the lost & found character of the police in police studies Summary: Narratives - or storytelling - are essential elements of our history and culture. In his Origins of Stories, Boyd (2009) argues that narratives are a specifically human adaptation. They offer tangible advantages for human survival, and are derived from playing, itself an adaption widespread among intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Today, I will do just that in trying to hold your attention. This lecture is about politics, policing and the police, and it brings back in the political context of policing - and also how this relates to the craft of policing. I define the craft of policing in terms of the core tasks of the police: maintaining public order, enforcing the law, offering services to the public and securing the underlying quality of (criminal) intelligence - and finally executing these tasks in a timely and professional way. And by ‘professional’ I mean ‘within the boundaries of the law’, and thus proportionate. Still, the term ‘professional’ here is also about setting one’s own moral standards and about being self-critical when it comes to assessing one’s performance. In the first part of my lecture I will define the political context of policing from which the core tasks of the police are derived. Next, I will give an overview of what these core tasks are. In the second part of my lecture I shall argue how in the last 35 years both the political context and the craft of policing have gradually disappeared in police research. Layers and layers of academic knowledge bringing in theories, concepts, definitions and ideas from different social sciences have been put on top of the craft of policing. Most of the research concerned here deals with organizational and managerial issues, or with descriptions of police processes. As a result, the political and theoretical context of policing, receiving less and less attention in research, is increasingly often ignored. I put forward six interrelated factors to explain why and how this happened. In the third part of my lecture I will bring the police back into police research by arguing that the political context is changing. I will do this on two levels. On the first level I shall argue that order keeping and law enforcement, and the quality of intelligence needed to execute these tasks, is becoming more prominent in actual policing. The Dutch police system is slowly evolving from a service and consent model of policing towards a system in which order keeping, law enforcement and intelligence is being brought in. Yet, much of the police research still clings to the theories, models, concepts and ideologies of a police system oriented towards service to the public. This means other research questions have to formulated. Which is what I will do. On the second level, the strategically relevant question, both for the political system and the police, asks what - if at all - the function is of the police in today’s network society in which a multitude of agencies and private actors are currently supplying safety and security. I will bring in recent research to fuel this discussion. Finally, I shall thank some of the people who have been an inspiration for me, and thank others who have made it possible for me to lecture, to write, and to tell stories - and who have enabled me throughout my career to satisfy my curiosity and my interest in policing. Details: Dordrecht, Netherlands: Stichting Maatschappij, Veiligheid en Politie, 2009. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 13, 2012 at http://www.smvp.nl/files/hoogenboom_english.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Netherlands URL: http://www.smvp.nl/files/hoogenboom_english.pdf Shelf Number: 124520 Keywords: Police Behavior (Netherlands)Police Policies and Procedures (Netherlands)Policing (Netherlands) |