Current developments in police governance and accountability in Ireland

Conway, Vicky; Walsh, Dermot P. J.

doi:10.1007/s10611-011-9271-z

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“…Thus, conventional themes are seen to remain applicable to contemporary times, signifying predictable accounts of police culture that continue to encourage the status quo (Loftus 2012, Loftus 2010, Conway and Walsh 2011, Conway 2010).…”

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Adjusting the police occupational cultural landscape: the case of An Garda Síochána

Charman

Corcoran

2014

Policing and Society

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A central area of interest yet controversy within policing over many decades has been the extent to which there exists a pernicious and pervasive occupational culture which operates in stark contrast to the aims of a principled police force. This article seeks to analyse the contentious issue of the culture of a police force under the pressure of organisational reform, with particular reference to An Garda Síochána, the Irish National Police Service. It draws upon an analysis of interviews conducted with police officers working across a range of units in one division of the national police service of the Republic of Ireland-an organisation that has not long ago been the subject of an post-scandal suggested internal reform agenda, driven by the Morris Tribunal's investigation of a major policing scandal. It presents an appraisal of officer perceptions relating to the key features of An Garda Síochána's 'adjusted' operational level occupational culture as they may be. These imply that the outcomes embedded in a number of reforms might well have altered the 'expected' cultural expressions of the police, thereby, challenging the suitability of 'conventional' themes of police characteristics and practices in relation to Irish police experience on the ground. It seems Irish police officers share an outlook that views formal rules as self-serving and normative orders designed to regulate their professional conduct.

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Adjusting the police occupational cultural landscape: the case of An Garda Síochána

Charman

Corcoran

2014

Policing and Society

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“…Security researchers have concluded that, over the last fifty years, there has been a clear increase in interest in the functioning of the police as a result of the emergence of a sophisticated, rights aware, and knowledge-based, society, where democratic processes are accompanied by the development of technology, urbanisation, mobility, and globalisation (Walsh, Conway, 2011). The Polish Police is an institution that has been particularly sensitive to social changes, because although it has formally existed since 1919, the period of World War II, and later the years of the socialist Civic Militia, seriously damaged social trust and the vision of the police as an institution which serves citizens.…”

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Educational function of the police. The Polish perspective

Magda

2020

Wychowanie w Rodzinie

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Wprowadzenie. Artykuł stanowi próbę wykazania, że obok klasycznych funkcji Policji takich, jak funkcja prewencyjna i funkcja represyjna dynamicznie rozwija się nowa funkcja – wychowawcza. Zmiany społeczno-polityczne w Polsce po roku 1989 spowodowały odrodzenie się formacji policyjnej, gdzie kluczowe znaczenie miała zmiana wizerunku policjanta w percepcji społecznej i oczekiwania, że Policja na nowo zdefiniuje swoją misję w duchu idei Community Policing na rzecz działań proaktywnych w środowisku lokalnym. W artykule wskazano na podstawy prawne umożliwiające rozwój działalności pedagogicznej policjantów demaskując przy tym przeszkody organizacyjne i mentalne, które tę działalność utrudniają. Rekomendacje do praktyki wprowadzone w końcowej części opracowania mogą stanowić wskazówkę jak skutecznej kształtować kulturę pedagogiczną policjantów. Cel. Artykuł ma przybliżyć rozwój nowej funkcji Policji jaką jest wychowanie. Metoda. W ramach pracy nad tekstem zastosowano metodę analityczno-syntetyczną. Przeanalizowano obowiązujące akty prawne pod kątem możliwości realizacji przez Policję funkcji wychowawczej. Wyniki. W artykule wykazano, że praca wychowawcza i profilaktyczna policjantów, wymaga dalszego kształcenia funkcjonariuszy w zakresie kompetencji pedagogicznych. W artykule wskazano na deficyty w tym zakresie oraz wypracowano postulaty do praktyki.

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“…In other words, the mere presence of laws and institutions with the powers to conduct independent police accountability did not create a culture that caused independent accountability to thrive. Writing with Dermot Walsh, Vicky explored how accountability in Ireland remained too individualized to change the police institution: “[If] reforms become targeted at individual officers under the bad apples thesis, or at one policing unit, believed to be inherently susceptible to corruption [then] organisational and institutional defects go unchecked” (Conway & Walsh, 2011, p. 242). These developments, they felt, “were not enough to tackle the organisational and occupational cultures and structures from which so many abuses of power emerged.” While the challenges Vicky identified reflect those facing police accountability globally (e.g., Ahmad & Barakat, 2019; Lister & Rowe, 2016; Prenzler, 2011; Seneviratne, 2004), she always effectively contextualized the Irish experience in accordance with local (e.g., postcolonial, gendered and religious) dynamics, as outlined earlier and throughout this issue.…”

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Doing Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ireland: Perspectives From a Peripheral Nation

Marder

Hamilton

2022

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This special issue invites authors engaged in cutting-edge research on crime and criminal justice in the Republic of Ireland to demonstrate Ireland’s global significance in these fields. Irish criminology is a burgeoning, diverse and outward-looking discipline, with a rising number of scholars making novel contributions to international debates on the theoretical and empirical study of crime and criminal justice. Its relatively unique position as both a Western European democracy and a post-colonial territory means that Ireland is of equal significance to the Global North and Global South. Moreover, this growth in local scholarship coincides with changes to criminal justice that should be of interest to advocates and analysts around the world. With articles on gendered historical abuses, public attitudes to policing, countering violent extremism, penal decision-making, penal politics, youth justice and organised crime, the issue brings this research to a global audience.

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Current developments in police governance and accountability in Ireland

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Adjusting the police occupational cultural landscape: the case of An Garda Síochána

Adjusting the police occupational cultural landscape: the case of An Garda Síochána

Educational function of the police. The Polish perspective

Doing Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ireland: Perspectives From a Peripheral Nation

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