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13 results foundAuthor: Palk, Gavan Roger Mark Title: The Nature and Extent of POlicing Alcohol Related Crime and Reducing Violence In and Around Late Night Entertainment Areas Summary: This misuse of alcohol is well documented in Australia and has been associated with disorders and harms that often require police attention. A significant proportion of harmful drinking occurs in and around licensed premises. This research investigates the occurrence and resource impact of alcohol-related incidents on operational policing across a large geographical area. In addition, it examines the characteristics and temporal/spatial dynamics of police attended alcohol incidents in the context of place based theories of crime. Details: Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, 2008. 301p. Source: Internet Resource; Doctoral Thesis Year: 2008 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 117791 Keywords: Alcohol Related Crime and Disorder (Australia)Place Based TheoriesPolicing (Australia)Problem Oriented Policing |
Author: Willis, Matthew Title: Policing Substance Abuse in Indigenous Communities: Report from a Workshop held in Mildura, Victoria, 5-6 August 2008. Summary: This report documents the findings of a conference designed to disseminate findings from tne National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund to an audience involved in implementing and managing the policing response to substance abuse in Indigenous communities. The objectives of the workshop included: establishing the key issues for police in relation to substance abuse in Indigenous communities; identifying differences in policing illicit drug use in Indigenous communities compared with other communities; and identifying where police may be able to improve their response to these issues. Details: Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 2009. 29p. Source: Research in Practice; Report no. 03 Year: 2009 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 115743 Keywords: -Drug OffendersDrug Abuse and AddictionIndigenous PeoplesPolicing (Australia)Substance Abuse, Police Response (Australia) |
Author: Allen Consulting Group Title: Independent Review of Policing in Remote Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory: Policing Further into Remote Communities Summary: There still remain communities in the Northern Territory that do not have a permanent police presence or regular policing patrols or visits. The issue for this review is how to further policing in these communities by improving the services that are currently provided and by extending these services to more communities. Details: Melbourne: Allen Consulting, 2010. 126p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2010 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 118568 Keywords: Indigenous Peoples (Australia)Policing (Australia)Rural Communities |
Author: Pilkington, James Title: Aboriginal Communities and the Police's Taskforce Themis: Case Studies in Remote Aboriginal Community Policing in the Northern Territory Summary: The Northern Territory government built 18 new police stations in Aboriginal communities and labeled this Taskforce Themis. This report examines the impact of these new police stations on the various communities in which the stations were placed. Each of the communities was examined as a separate case study in remote community policing. Part 2 contains a detailed examination of the experience of each community with the police. The first clear conclusion from the fieldwork is that each community has had a distinct and different experience with the police presence. There are no factors in common across all the communities of Taskforce Themis; policing styles, priorities, and levels and methods for community engagement vary, as do crime levels, crime improvement and community responses to the police. Details: Darwin, NT, AUS: North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, 2009. 198p., app. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2009 Country: Australia URL: http://www.naaja.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Themis-Stations-Report.pdf Shelf Number: 118705 Keywords: AboriginalsCommunity PolicingIndigenous PeoplesPolice-Community RelationsPolicing (Australia) |
Author: Bammer, Gabriele, ed. Title: Dealing with Uncertainties in Policing Serious Crime Summary: This book draws together research and practice perspectives to review fruitful approaches to uncertainties in policing serious crimes. Scene setting chapters describe the consequences of globalization and the spread of sophisticated information technologies, as well as advances in understanding and managing uncertainty. Ways of enhancing responses from statistics, risk analysis, and the psychology of decision making follow. These chapters are complemented by insights from law, politics, and business. Synthesis is provided by the four final chapters wich present the outlooks of the investigating officer and investigation manager, the provider of policing higher education, the capacity-building consultant, and the leader of a law enforcement agency. Details: Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press, 2010. 213p. Source: Internet Resource; eBook Year: 2010 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 118780 Keywords: Criminal Evidence (Australia)Criminal Investigation (Australia)Criminal Law (Australia)Policing (Australia) |
Author: Roche, Ann M. Title: In Pursuit of Excellence: Alcohol- and Drug-Related Workforce Development Issues for Australian Police into the 21st Century Summary: This report presents an initial examination of the workforce development needs of police in relation to alcohol and other drug issues. The report draws on various sources of information and data to provide a synthesis of current relevant issues and recommendations in relation to workforce development. The report also critiques police training needs as one aspect of an overall workforce development approach. Details: Adelaide: National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University, 2009. 78p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2009 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 118776 Keywords: Police Education (Australia)Police Training (Australia)Policing (Australia) |
Author: Beale, Roger Title: New Realities: National Policing in the 21st Century. Federal Audit of Police Capabilities Summary: The world has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. For Australian policing, many of those changes were crystallised in six short years between 1999 and 2005. These remarkable years saw the United Nations (UN) INTERFET operation commence in East Timor, the terrible events of September 11 2001, the two Bali bombings, the Marriott and Jakarta Embassy bombings, the Afghanistan and Iraq interventions and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Each had, or led to, an important Australian policing component. Since then Australia has seen massive and complex domestic terrorism investigations and trials – its first since those which flowed from the 1979 Hilton bombing which led to the establishment of the AFP. The growth in the importance of the internet for the economy, and society, was underscored by the Millenium Bug concern of the year 2000 and then underlined by the dot com share market crash of 2001. The first E-security National Agenda was introduced in 2001. The first AFP arrests under new Commonwealth law for child pornography conveyed over the internet took place in 2005. The UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime came into force in the year 2000. In 2003 the Australian government announced a major initiative on human trafficking and people smuggling. In 2004 Australia ratified these UN instruments aimed at criminalising offences committed by organised criminal groups, combating money laundering and facilitating international cooperation in the fight against transnational organised crime. Also in 2004 Australian, Fijian and New Zealand police combined in an operation that led to the identification and raiding of the biggest illegal drug factory ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere. The bulk of its product was likely destined for Australian and New Zealand streets. The year 2001 saw the collapse of HIH, one of Australia’s largest corporate failures, at considerable cost to thousands of ordinary Australians. By 2005 concerns were being expressed about the legality of the behaviour of the Australian Wheat Board in relation to the payment of bribes to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. Both of these events would in time lead to extensive criminal inquiries. More importantly they symbolised the extent to which everyday Australians are now exposed through their share ownership and superannuation investments to corporate wrongdoing, and to the care that Australian companies must take to obey the law in their international dealings. These six remarkable years underlined for policing that the global changes accelerating over the previous two decades brought with them very significant local Australian consequences. These changes impacted all levels of policing – but particularly national policing. They demanded new approaches by the Commonwealth, and across the Federation, as Commonwealth, State and Territory law enforcement agencies responded. At the epicentre of these changes was the Australian Federal Police (AFP). It responded in a remarkably short time to develop highly effective abilities in counter terrorism, a capability to provide widely praised international deployments to support the restoration of law and order and bolster civil governance, to take a firm lead on the policing of Australia’s airports and protection of aviation, and integrate protection services for Australia’s leaders and key institutions, while growing its international network and maintaining its role in serious crime and community policing. The AFP is acknowledged to have made an important contribution to the strengthening of ties between Australia and Indonesia after the events in East Timor when traditional close diplomatic and military relationships were strained. There have been some controversies and criticisms, and it is clear that the pace of change has outstripped the capacity of some internal systems, but it has been an overwhelmingly successful transition from the fringe to the centre of government. For most of this period Commissioner Mick Keelty, APM, led the AFP. Details: Melbourne: Allen Consulting Group, 2009. 263p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 6, 2010 at: http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(4CA02151F94FFB778ADAEC2E6EA8653D)~Federal+Audit+of+Police+Capabilities-dec09.pdf/$file/Federal+Audit+of+Police+Capabilities-dec09.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Australia URL: http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(4CA02151F94FFB778ADAEC2E6EA8653D)~Federal+Audit+of+Police+Capabilities-dec09.pdf/$file/Federal+Audit+of+Police+Capabilities-dec09.pdf Shelf Number: 120376 Keywords: Police PerformancePolice ReformPolicing (Australia) |
Author: Victoria (Australia). Office of Police Integrity Title: Talking Together – Relations between Police and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Victoria: A Review of the Victoria Police Aboriginal Strategic Plan 2003-2008 Summary: The broad formal acknowledgment of the unique place occupied by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in contemporary Australia is a relatively recent phenomenon. But the special attention given to the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia’s criminal justice system has been much more long-standing. Since the 1991 Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Victoria, along with most other Australian jurisdictions, has undertaken a range of strategies aimed at reducing the disproportionate numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people incarcerated in prisons. Because police have significant discretionary powers and play an important role as the point of entry to the criminal justice system, many of these strategies have specifically targeted police practices. But police are only a component of a much broader continuum that influences justice outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Although alcohol abuse and violence were not features of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, they are now predominant themes associated with Koori offending. The underlying factors associated with alcohol abuse and violence in Koori communities are complex. Clearly, the most effective strategies to improve justice outcomes for Koori people are those that achieve a reduction in alcohol abuse and violence. While police may have some role in effective prevention strategies, leadership for developing and implementing strategies for reducing Koori family violence must come from Koori communities themselves and be supported by a whole-of-government approach. Achieving sustained systemic change is a long term goal. It is probable police will continue to have a disproportionally substantial role in the lives of many Kooris for some time. In 2003, one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victorians, many of whom were children, were reported to be the victim, a relative of a victim or a witness to an act of violence. The great majority of these acts of violence were likely to have resulted in a police call-out. But by the time police respond, there may be little they can do, other than use their powers of arrest to extricate an offender and provide for the safety of others. Similarly, police often have few options when responding to concerns about a Koori who is alcohol-affected, other than to take the person into custody for his or her own safety or the safety of others. Although in many cases police may have limited options, how they go about performing their duties is important. Unlike their non-Koori counterparts, many Koori children will have had contact with police from an early age. How police first interact with Koori children can have a strong and lasting impact on how Koori children and young people relate to police as they mature into adulthood. Similarly, the interaction between police and Koori community Elders can influence the outcome of potentially volatile situations. Understanding cultural issues and building relationships based on mutual respect can be the difference between diffusing a situation or escalating it. It is within this context that in 2003 Victoria Police developed a strategic plan for policing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The focus of this Review was to establish how the 2003 Strategic Plan and other Department of Justice initiatives aimed at improving justice outcomes for Kooris have affected local communities. Details: Melbourne: Office of Police Integrity, 2011. 93p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 19, 2011 at: http://www.opi.vic.gov.au/index.php?i=19 Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.opi.vic.gov.au/index.php?i=19 Shelf Number: 121401 Keywords: Alcohol Related Crime and DisorderDiscriminationIndigenous PeoplesPolice DiscretionPolice-Citizen InteractionsPolice-Community RelationsPolicing (Australia) |
Author: Mazerolle, Lorraine Title: Key Findings of the Queensland Community Engagement Trial Summary: The international research community has spent the last twenty years developing a comprehensive understanding of public perceptions of police legitimacy and how the dynamics of police-citizen encounters explain variations in public perceptions of satisfaction, cooperation, compliance, trust in police and the capacity of police to maintain order, regulate and solve community problems. The Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET) is a world-first randomized field trial, conducted to investigate the effects of legitimacy policing through procedural justice and community engagement. The idea that legitimate policing can have positive impacts on police-citizen relations, community engagement and crime is not disputed and is clearly not new. However, never before have researchers used randomised field trial methods to directly test whether or not police can effectively and efficiently promote police legitimacy (and perceptions of police legitimacy) through procedural approaches, particularly in ethnically diverse communities where perceptions of legitimacy may be especially low. Accordingly, in December 2009, researchers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) – in collaboration with the Queensland Police Service (QPS) – launched the Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET) in the Metropolitan South Region of Brisbane, Australia. This paper describes the QCET project and the key findings in terms of procedural justice and legitimacy. Details: Nathan, Qld: ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, 2011. 10p. Source: Internet Resource: Briefing Paper: Accessed July 20, 2011 at: http://www.ceps.edu.au/files/file/FINAL%20Key%20Findings%20of%20the%20Queensland%20Community%20Engagement%20Trial.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.ceps.edu.au/files/file/FINAL%20Key%20Findings%20of%20the%20Queensland%20Community%20Engagement%20Trial.pdf Shelf Number: 122122 Keywords: Police LegitimacyPolice-Citizen InteractionsPolice-Community RelationsPolicing (Australia)Procedural Justice |
Author: Australia. State Services Authority. Title: Inquiry into the command, management and functions of the senior structure of Victoria Police Summary: Events immediately preceding the announcement of the Inquiry highlighted a perception that the effectiveness of the senior command of Victoria Police was compromised by dysfunctional relationships of those in senior command positions. On 6 May 2011, the then Chief Commissioner Mr Simon Overland directed that Deputy Commissioner Sir Ken Jones take leave, effective from close of business on 6 May 2011. Sir Ken Jones had, previously, on 2 May 2011 announced his intention to resign from Victoria Police, with the resignation to take effect on 5 August 2011. The resignation of Sir Ken Jones, and the direction that he take leave, was preceded by many weeks of speculation in the media about tensions between members of the senior command of Victoria Police. Mr Overland was appointed Chief Commissioner of Police in March 2009. He resigned on 16 June 2011. His resignation followed the release of a report by the Ombudsman earlier that day, Investigation into an allegation about Victoria Police crime statistics. On 27 October 2011, the Office of Police Integrity released a report Crossing the Line that further highlighted the history of disunity in senior command in the months before the resignations of Sir Ken Jones and Mr Overland. This history, combined with a succession of reports, both internal and external, identifying chronic and costly mismanagement across important sections of the administration of Victoria Police, brought into question the effectiveness of the senior command structure and administration of Victoria Police and its ability to deliver best practice policing. The Inquiry was established in the light of this background. Details: Melbourne: State Services Authority, 2011. 128p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 6, 2012 at http://www.ssa.vic.gov.au/images/stories/product_files/290_Police_Management_Structure.PDF Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.ssa.vic.gov.au/images/stories/product_files/290_Police_Management_Structure.PDF Shelf Number: 124392 Keywords: Police Administration (Australia)Police Behavior (Australia)Police Policies and Procedure (Australia)Policing (Australia) |
Author: Victoria (Australia). Office of Police Integrity Title: Review of Victoria Police Use of ‘Stop and Search’ Powers Summary: This report presents the findings of a Review of Victoria Police use of ‘stop and search’ powers associated with the control of weapons. The review found little evidence to suggest that concerns have been realised relating to arbitrary use of powers or the targeting of particular groups. It also found that Victoria Police is not able to meet the legislative reporting requirements due to inadequate data collection and retrieval mechanisms. Details: Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer, 2012. 64p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 10, 2012 at: http://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/Review%20of%20Victoria%20Police%20use%20of%20%27stop%20and%20search%27%20powers.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/Review%20of%20Victoria%20Police%20use%20of%20%27stop%20and%20search%27%20powers.pdf Shelf Number: 125235 Keywords: Police DiscretionPolicing (Australia)Racial Profiling in Law EnforcementStop and SearchWeapons |
Author: Jakubauskas, Michelle Title: Police at Work: The Wave Five Report Summary: The Police at Work survey is a companion study to a larger longitudinal study focussing on the working experiences of Australians employed or looking for work in March 2006. The research took place in five waves from 2007 to 2011 and involved telephone interviews with police association members in the Northern Territory (NT), New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The original sample of 947 police officers was recruited from the membership databases of the four participating police associations. As such, all of the participants in the Police at Work sample were union members at the time of joining the study. A total of 693 sworn police officers remained in the study in wave 5. This is an extremely high retention rate and it enabled us to gather five years of data for this large group of police officers. The Police at Work study has increased current understanding on the working lives of police officers. In particular, it has put numbers around some of the serious hazards and risks associated with police work, in particular those around workplace health and safety and burnout. Details: Sydney: Workplace Research Centre at the University of Sydney, 2012. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 17, 2013 at: http://pfa.org.au/files/uploads/Police_at_Work_Wave_5_FINAL_Nov_2012_0.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://pfa.org.au/files/uploads/Police_at_Work_Wave_5_FINAL_Nov_2012_0.pdf Shelf Number: 127283 Keywords: Police OfficersPolicing (Australia)Working Conditions, Police |
Author: Rogers, Colin Title: Maintaining democratic policing: the challenge for police leaders Summary: The policing function in most democratic countries is currently undergoing a series of radical changes, not only economically through different austerity measures, but organisationally and structurally through the introduction of various reviews into police pay, working conditions etc. For example, in the UK the Audit Commission (2010) and Winsor (2011) have suggested such changes as direct entry schemes to the rank of inspector and superintendent as well as setting different levels of advancement for payment of constables. These changes may appear to some as superficial tinkering with the way the police perform their practical function, and indeed appear to be aimed at the delivery of street level policing. However, the effects of such changes may manifest themselves in a far more subtle manner surrounding the very philosophy of policing as understood since its modern inception. The unforeseen implications of such changes have the potential to store up challenges and problems for police leaders if not recognised and understood. Contemporary democratic policing normally claims its roots and legitimacy in the fact that it is supported by communities in the carrying out of their duties. Hence respect for and continued interaction with communities is vital support to allow the police to carry out their function. This is particularly so when discussing the democratic policing model. Details: Manly, NSW, Australia: Australian Institute of Police Management, 2014. 7p. Source: AIPM Research Focus, Vol 2(2); Internet Resource: Accessed June 9, 2014 at http://www.aipm.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Research-Focus-Vol2-Iss2-2014.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aipm.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Research-Focus-Vol2-Iss2-2014.pdf Shelf Number: 132422 Keywords: Democratic Policing Policing (Australia)Policing (New Zealand) |