Policing
Policing includes both the police institutions and their relationship with citizens. It also covers the governance and accountability arrangements through national ministries and other bodies that shape these relationships.
Documents
“Low-Cost Trigger-Pullers”: The Politics of Policing in the Context of Contemporary ‘State Building’
| Date added: | 28/02/2011 |
Author: William Rosenau
Institution:RAND
Publication Date: October 2008
Keywords: Policing, COIN
Read Full Text Here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2009/RAND_WR620.pdf
Relevance:
What roles should the police be expected to undertake as part of stabilisation efforts? Are they only needed as low cost infantry substitutes? In Iraq and Afghanistan,police have been assigned paramilitary duties at the expense of the public safety and protective roles which contemporary counter-insurgency (COIN) doctrine proposes for police institutions. The paper reviews COIN literature based on operations in Vietnam and Malaya, exploring the domestic and international political pressures that lead to the militarisation of police in stabilisation environ... Read More
The Future is Non-State
| Date added: | 28/02/2011 |
Author: Bruce Baker
Institution: The Centre for International Governance Innovation
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords:Policing
Read Full Text Here: http://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/The%20Future%20of%20Security%20Sector%20Reform.pdf
Relevance:
This paper argues that supporting non-state providers of security is a quicker, cheaper, and more effective alternative to traditional police reform programming aimed at bolstering state forces. It succinctly represents one side of the current debate over international support to non-state policing actors, and draws on recent case studies from Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, and Southern Sudan. It will be relevant to planners and practitioners conc... Read More
Security Sector Stabilisation in a Non-Permissive Environment
| Date added: | 28/02/2011 |
Author: Peter Dahl Thruelsen
Institution:Danish Defence College
Publication Date: March 2010
Keywords: Policing
Read Full Text Here: http://forsvaret.dk/FAK/Publikationer/Research%20Papers/Documents/Security%20Sector%20Stabilisation.pdf
Relevance:
The paper focuses on implementing Security Sector Stabilisation (SSS) programmes in stabilisation environments, focusing on the role of external actors in the development of core security actors including the police and army. The focus on core security actors provides an important distinction between the role of the host nations police and army and provides lessons that distinguish between the type of support provided to these actors. The pape... Read More
A More Strategic US Approach to Police in Africa
| Date added: | 24/02/2012 |
Publication Date: April 2011
Author: Richard Downie and Jennifer G. Cooke
Institution: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Relevant Categories: Policing
Read Full Text Here: http://csis.org/files/publication/110414_Downie_PolicyReformAfrica_Web.pdf
Relevance:
US policy makers and the American public are increasingly recognising the direct and significant impact developments in Africa can have upon US economic, political and security interests. However, few have highlighted the vital role that Africa’s police can play in both delivering and undermining this agenda.
This paper draws together outcomes from a series of working groups on police reform in Africa, convened by the Center for Strategic and International... Read More