Retracted article: Kunnskapsbasert politiarbeid – kunnskap til å stole på?

Abstract

The original version of this article was published online on May 20 th 2020. On June 26 th 2020, the journal editor received complaints regarding suspected plagiarism and lacking citations in the article, which were forwarded to the publisher, Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget). In July and August, the editors systematically reviewed the article and the authors where allowed to provide their feedback on the complaint. Pending further clarification of the issue, the publisher retracted the article on August 21 st 2020. On August 28 th 2020 the editor based on information given to the editor and correspondence with those involved, regards the case as a minor form of plagiarism and the journal editorial team invited the authors to submit a revised version. On September 29 th the journal published online the revised article after it had been evaluated by the editors. The updated version of the articles has been published here:

Knowledge Requirements in the Governing Documents of the Swedish Police Programme

“…Williams et al (2019) and Bäck (2020) show that police officers with higher education are keen to use their acquired knowledge but experience varying opportunities to apply it to practical police work. In other words, there seems to be a contradiction between what is needed in terms of content and what is valued as important forms of knowledge (Handegård & Berg, 2020). There may also be a lack of understanding among active police officers, as they might struggle to accept new police officers with an academic education (Fleming & Wingrove, 2017).…”