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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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2 results foundAuthor: Innes, Martin Title: Rebooting the PC: Using innovation to drive smart policing Summary: When Neighbourhood Policing was first introduced in England and Wales, many senior police leaders and experts publicly dismissed the idea, arguing that providing reassurance and focusing on the public’s crime priorities would not cut crime or improve public confidence – with some adding that the policy was conceived by people who had no real knowledge about the front-line. Now that it has helped to sustain record reductions in crime and is held up as a beacon of best practice around the world, the Neighbourhood Policing model is fiercely protected and promoted by senior officers, ACPO, the Home Office and all major political parties. It is, perhaps, the best example of a successful innovation in British policing. The journey from conception to world-famous innovation (in policing circles, at least) was not an easy one, made harder by an institutional resistance to change and a cop culture that often sees promising ideas rejected because they were ‘not invented here’. This conservatism is understandable. The police often deal with situations and issues which can result in serious harm to victims, and so they can be understandably risk averse. And police officers are highly pragmatic, practical people who solve problems creatively every day – meaning that they are often happy to ‘satisfice’ with processes, kit or technology that are just good enough to do the job. This is best summed-up by the oft-repeated policing phrase, “we’re not trying to build a Rolls Royce, we only need a Mini”. Innovation involves risk. In fact, it often requires it. So we should expect a degree of resistance from an organisation like the police. But with the growing social and financial challenges facing the country’s forces, there is no part of policing that can be immune from a re-examination of what has hitherto simply been received wisdom or accepted practice. This report is all about how to hardwire innovation into the structures and cultures of policing. It examines why policing can be culturally and institutionally resistant to innovation, identifies the ‘engines of innovation’ which can sometimes break through this inertia, demonstrates why embedding processes of innovation should be a deliberate goal of policy, and calls for the creation of new collaborative networks specifically designed to foster innovation. Details: London: Policy Exchange, 2013. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 4, 2013 at: http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/rebooting%20the%20pc.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/rebooting%20the%20pc.pdf Shelf Number: 128657 Keywords: Neighborhood PolicingPolice InnovationPolice ReformPolicing (U.K.) |
Author: Mastrofski, Stephen D. Title: Receptivity to Police Innovation: A Tale of Two Cities Summary: Innovation is widely thought to be the key to success in police departments, yet police are often conceived as traditional and resistant to the changes that innovation requires. Recent decades have witnessed much interest among police leaders and policy makers in various innovations, ranging from new applications of information technology (intelligence-led policing) to administrative changes (affirmative action) to strategic changes (Compstat and community policing). Despite a number of studies of the impact of such recent innovations, there have been very few investigations of the receptivity of police to innovation. Who is most and least receptive to innovation? What kind of environment for innovation do police departments provide? Which innovations are most and least welcome? In sum, what is the environment for innovation in American municipal police organizations? This Platform Project report describes a preliminary effort to test some popular views about the orientation of the police to innovation. It compares the responses of police officers in two large municipal police agencies, considering how the police feel about their organization's environment to support innovation and about their department's orientation to specific innovations. Below are some propositions that were evaluated by comparing these two police agencies. Details: Washington, DC: National Police Research Platform, National Institute of Justice, 2011. 10p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 2, 2018 at: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/733761/10444481/1296183364910/Receptivity+to+Police+Innovation+A+Tale+of+Two+Cities++FINAL.pdf?token=SeJS91HYZyK7nsfsRL3UNZl4t1o%3D Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/733761/10444481/1296183364910/Receptivity+to+Police+Innovation+A+Tale+of+Two+Cities++FINAL.pdf?token=SeJS91HYZyK7nsfsRL3UNZl4t1o%3D Shelf Number: 150442 Keywords: Intelligence-Led PolicingPolice InnovationPolice ReformPolice Technology |