Designing Multidimensional Policing Strategy And Organization: Towards A Synthesis Of Professional And Community Police Models

• Authors: Priit Suve , Peeter Selg , Georg Sootla
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this article we analyse professional police and community policing in view of professionalism, strategy and structures. We aim to find ways for synthesizing these models that are usually seen as incompatible. Unlike many earlier studies of police organizations or strategies, we view strategies in the organization at the corporate, functional and operational levels, and argue that by combining them with functional and divisional principles of structuring, it is possible to place professional strategy at the core of policing, while using the community policing strategy mainly as a component part of the strategy in the framework of divisional organization. This way it is possible to avoid the risk of alienating police from the community and to ensure the successful implementation of corporate strategy through providing professional police units that perform the narrow functions, with quick and adequate information from the community.

Keywords

EN

Community policing; professional policing; police strategies; organizational design

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 28-54

Dates

published

2015-06-01

received

2015-03-01

accepted

2015-05-29

online

2015-10-05

Contributors

author

Priit Suve

• Tallinn University, Institute of Political Science and Governance (Estonia)

author

Peeter Selg

• Tallinn University, Institute of Political Science and Governance (Estonia)

author

Georg Sootla

• Tallinn University, Institute of Political Science and Governance (Estonia)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjlp-2015-0010