Policing the pandemic: public views of the police approach to enforcement of covid-19 public health regulations in Trinidad and Tobago

Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands

“…Studies have found that police have undertaken new health-related roles in addition to their regular law enforcement. New roles included monitoring if people were wearing masks, enforcing social distancing, and monitoring quarantine lockdowns, and curfews (Alcadipani et al, 2020;Jiang & Xie, 2020;Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Mazerolle & Ransley, 2021;Wallace et al, 2022;White & Fradella, 2020). Hence, these additional health duties have expanded the traditional policing boundary of law enforcement to policing the pandemic (Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022).…”

“…New roles included monitoring if people were wearing masks, enforcing social distancing, and monitoring quarantine lockdowns, and curfews (Alcadipani et al, 2020;Jiang & Xie, 2020;Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Mazerolle & Ransley, 2021;Wallace et al, 2022;White & Fradella, 2020). Hence, these additional health duties have expanded the traditional policing boundary of law enforcement to policing the pandemic (Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022). In addition, police agencies made internal organizational changes to cater for COVID-19 health duties (Alcadipani et al, 2020;Ashby, 2020;Cave & Dahir, 2020;Drew & Martin, 2020;Farrow, 2020;Jennings & Perez, 2020;Lum et al, 2020;Maskály et al, 2021;Stott et al, 2020).…”

“…There are only a few studies that have examined the public's view of how well the police performed their new COVID-19 duties (Caluori & Clements, 2020;Janković & Cvetković, 2020;Laufs & Waseem, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022). For instance, Janković and Cvetković (2020) conducted an online survey of public perceptions of the Serbian police during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that the public was happy with police performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

“…The deadly COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health security concern (WHO, 2020), countries have swiftly reacted by enforcing the WHO health protocols, and governments have called upon the police agencies to monitor and implement health protocols (Garcia et al, 2020;Lum et al, 2020;Maskály et al, 2021;Mazerolle & Ransley, 2021). These new responsibilities of police have expanded the boundaries of policing to handle new harms (Lum et al, 2020;Maskály et al, 2021;Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022). As a result, new concepts have emerged in the literature such as health policing, disease policing, health regulation, and health compliance to explain this expanded role of police (Cave & Dahir, 2020;Farrow, 2020;Jennings & Perez, 2020;Stott et al, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022;White & Fradella, 2020).…”

“…These new responsibilities of police have expanded the boundaries of policing to handle new harms (Lum et al, 2020;Maskály et al, 2021;Perry & Jonathan-Zamir, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022). As a result, new concepts have emerged in the literature such as health policing, disease policing, health regulation, and health compliance to explain this expanded role of police (Cave & Dahir, 2020;Farrow, 2020;Jennings & Perez, 2020;Stott et al, 2020;Wallace et al, 2022;White & Fradella, 2020). The way police have performed their COVID-19 duties are not uniform across countries, but variations exist between countries (Aboridsade, 2021;Jankovic and Cvetkovic, 2020;Lum et al,2020;Maskály et al, 2021).…”