Policing COVID-19 through procedural informality in Pakistan

Waseem, Zoha

doi:10.1080/10439463.2021.1887869

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“…It appears that o cial statistics in many countries with limited testing capacities likely exclude victims who tested negative before death. 25 Additionally, governments may also avoid reporting cases that could impact economic and tourism markets. Thus, communicable diseases such as COVID-19 are not just domestic but also transnational political issues (35).…”

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Governing COVID-19: The Complex Relationship Between Government Type and Police Enforcement

Bohloli,

Shokri,

Khah

2023

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most significant challenges to global health and economic and social aspects. This disease has spread to millions of people and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic not only posed unprecedented and unforeseen challenges to public health systems in the early 21st century but also created a set of challenges for police departments and law enforcement agencies worldwide. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to map the existing literature on the relationship between government type and police enforcement in controlling COVID-19. We searched electronic databases such as PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. We included studies that were conducted in countries with different types of governance and published data on their police deployment in controlling COVID-19. We identified 18 countries that met our inclusion criteria. We used a four-quadrant composition model to plot the countries based on their government type and the extent of police deployment. We found a complex relationship among government type, police enforcement, and COVID-19 control. Results: Based on the studies conducted and the literature review on the subject in various parts of the world, the four-zone model (Governance Policing Types - GPT) is proposed in accordance with the type of governance and the extent of police use in controlling COVID-19. This model indicates a clear relationship between the type of government and the extent of police use in controlling epidemiological crises. Research findings suggest that in pandemic emergencies, the type of governance and effective response of the police can keep individuals away from potential risks and ensure public safety and well-being. Conclusion: Governance quality and police involvement are essential in managing pandemics; however, a balanced approach is needed to protect both public health and individual rights. Democratic countries generally have better decision quality, but authoritarian countries can make decisions more quickly. Countries that combined both quality and speed of decision-making achieved exceptional results. More research is needed to understand the long-term effects of different pandemic management strategies.

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Governing COVID-19: The Complex Relationship Between Government Type and Police Enforcement

Bohloli,

Shokri,

Khah

2023

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“…Scholars seeking to understand the various precarity and vulnerabilities facing vendors in much of Africa have spoken of how states often deploy various legal and extra-legal means to regulate the informal sector (see Kamete, 2013; Waseem, 2021). In sync with the literature of the production of space as articulated by Lefebvre such a trend recast the cityscape as a platform of contestation over the use of open and regulated space (Purcell, 2002; Shields, 2013).…”

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“…In the same vein, there is a considerable amount of literature tackling various facets of the informal sector in different temporal and spatial settings. Admittedly, even in its clear diversity, this strand of literature is, however, yet to come to grips with issues around clampdown on informal traders (Recchi, 2020; Waseem, 2021) in the wake of COVID-19, as is the case in some African polities, including in Zimbabwe (Moyo-Nyede and Ndoma, 2020; Muorwel et al, 2020; Price, 2020).…”

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Demolitions of Informal Business Structures in Harare, Zimbabwe Under the Guise of COVID-19 City Clean Up

Mwonzora

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Recent research on the informal sector has devoted considerable attention in examining how informal traders have been affected by the coronavirus in different temporal and spatial settings. However, less well understood is the extent to which central and local governments can cunningly use the veil of COVID-19 pandemic to regulate and re-shape the informal sector. Seeking to remedy this shortcoming in the prevailing accounts and utilising a qualitative research methodology including observations, discourse analysis, critical review of policy pronouncements, by-laws, legislation, video evidence from city officials, government, health authorities, vendors associations, newspapers articles and through a case study analysis of Harare City in Zimbabwe. The article contributes to the academic and policy discussions on how law, disease outbreak, policy and governmentality of African urban spaces intersect.

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“…The first and most prominent theme relates to police enforcement of pandemic-related laws and regulations (such as lockdown restrictions) and public perceptions of and compliance with this enforcement (see Biswas and Sultana 2020 ; Boon-Kuo et al 2021 ; Farrow 2020 ; Grace 2020 ; Jankovic and Cvetkovic 2020 ; Jiang and Xie 2020 ; Jones 2020 ; Ka-Ki Ho et al 2020 ; Luong 2020 ; Perry and Jonathan-Zamir 2020 ; Reicher and Stott 2020 ; Deckert et al 2021 ; McCarthy et al 2021 ; Mazerolle and Ransley 2021 ; Sargeant et al 2021 ; Scalia 2021 ; Terpstra et al 2021 ; Waseem 2021 ). The second theme concerns the police response to more established crimes and vulnerabilities within the context of the pandemic, such as domestic violence (Nix and Richards 2021 ; Walklate et al 2021 ; Workman et al 2021 ), mental health (Lersch 2020 ), cybercrime (Horgan et al 2021 ) and the production, supply and consumption of illicit drugs (Marks et al 2020 ; Trappen and McLean 2021 ).…”

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Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

White

2022

Secur J

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This article is among the first to explore the role and status of the private security industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing on the UK case, it illustrates how even though most private security officers were designated as ‘critical workers’ in this time of crisis, performing a range of functions essential to national infrastructure and law and order, the public have been slow or reluctant to recognise the contribution of the sector. It argues that this disposition is reflective of a longstanding public ambivalence or unease towards the private security industry which can ultimately be traced to the state-centric sociological terrain of the policing field.

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Policing COVID-19 through procedural informality in Pakistan

Cited by 12 publications

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Governing COVID-19: The Complex Relationship Between Government Type and Police Enforcement

Governing COVID-19: The Complex Relationship Between Government Type and Police Enforcement

Demolitions of Informal Business Structures in Harare, Zimbabwe Under the Guise of COVID-19 City Clean Up

Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

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