Trust, trustworthiness and trust-building in international policing missions

Goldsmith, Andrew; Harris, Vandra

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“…Although it is more recent, it has already produced a number of high-profile publications (see, among others, Bradford, 2011; Hohl et al, 2010; Jackson and Bradford, 2009; Jackson et al, 2013; Kautt, 2011). Further, steps towards developing a subfield on this topic have also been taken in Australia (Goldsmith and Harris, 2012; Lee and McGovern, 2013; Murphy, 2013; Murphy and Cherney, 2011; Sargeant et al, 2014) and Belgium (Billiet and Pleysier, 2012; Dirikx and Van den Bulck, 2014; Parmentier and Vervaeke, 2011; Van Craen, 2012, 2013; Van Damme et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Craen

Skogan

2014

European Journal of Criminology

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The international literature contains very few empirical tests of Tyler's (2011) claim that in Europe, as in the United States, procedural justice plays a larger part than police performance in accounting for citizens' trust in the police. With regard to procedural justice, there has also been little research on the distinct effects of responsiveness and fair treatment. This study is a step towards filling in these gaps. We used quantitative data collected in Belgium to examine to what extent citizens' trust in the police is determined by being a victim of crime, perceptions of disorder, feelings of insecurity, perceptions of the way the police treat people and perceptions of police responsiveness. The results indicate the relevance of procedural justice for explaining police trustworthiness in European countries. In Belgium, perceived responsiveness seems to be the cornerstone of a strong trust relationship.

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confidence: 99%

Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Craen

Skogan

2014

European Journal of Criminology

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“…A police is imagined as chasing hardened criminals, capturing bank robbers, and investigating murders. Similarly, Goldsmith and Harris (2012) believe that considering the nature of police work, obtaining cooperation can be particularly difficult. Despite that, policing, like many other activities, benefits from cooperation and collaboration with other partners, notably the public.…”

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confidence: 99%

Toward Enhancing Police-Community Relations in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects

Madaki

Kurfi

2013

JSR

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This paper examines the existing relationship between the police and members of the public in Nigeria, highlighting the various problems endemic in both parties (the police and the public). The paper provides the essential pragmatic means of further enhancing this relationship for a better and peaceful society through the principles of community policing. The authors take a multi-dimensional approach to the police public relationship (P-PR) in Nigeria positing thatprimarily, there are structural, organizational, and attitudinal factors that led to the deteriorating nature of the P-PR in Nigeria. The paper posits that co-operation between the police and the public is a prerequisite for the success of any law enforcement agency, notably the police as well as a better, peaceful, and harmonious society. The police alone cannot achieve this without support from the members of the public whom they serve. For that kind of good working condition to be created, the police need to be polite, friendly, approachable, honest, law abiding and demonstrate high sense of responsibility in dealing with members of the public and in discharging their duties. On the other hand, the public must understand that maintaining law and order is a collective responsibility between the parties and should do everything possible to assist the police in protecting lives and property. Good and objective partnership between the community and the police will help bring positive response to crimes and other social problems.This can be achieved by ensuring proper and genuine police reform in the country to overhaul the organization and by bringing to book corrupt officers and men as general and specific deterrence.

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“…What do their efforts to achieve a 're-legitimation' (Reiner 2010, p. 99) look like? It is essential to have a police organisation that is seen as trustworthy (Goldsmith and Harris 2012): when the police are trusted, they can do their work more efficiently and effectively (Sunshine and Tyler 2003, Jackson and Bradford 2010, Hamm et al 2016, Stanko and Dawson 2016, Boateng 2018) and citizens will feel more secure (Skogan 2009). As the police represent the authority of the state (Bittner 1980), trust in the police also reflects the legitimacy of the state as a whole.…”

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confidence: 99%

Police trust-building strategies. A socio-institutional, comparative approach

Schaap

2020

Policing and Society

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Police require public trust to do their work well. Recognising this, police organisations across Europe implement various methods to gain trust: trust-building strategies. Surprisingly, the field of trust in the police and police legitimacy has paid scant attention to what the police actually do to improve trust. The present contribution outlines an approach to understanding police trust-building strategies in their social and institutional context applying a comparative, dynamic perspective. Departing from the assumption that trust and legitimacy exist in a dialogue between the public and the police, the author argues that trustbuilding strategies develop in an unpredictable, dynamic complex of interrelated social and institutional factors. What is seen as a suitable trust-building strategy is determined by dominant 'rationalised myths', ways of thinking about what good police work should look like. These are shaped by a diverse range of different actors and factors. This complex affects each phase in the development of police trust-building strategies: problem recognition, generation of strategies, and adoption of strategies. Illustrating the value of the socio-institutional approach towards trustbuilding strategies, each of these phases is discussed in the context of a comparative, dynamic study of police trust-building strategies in England and Wales, Denmark, and the Netherlands. It is argued that this more sophisticated understanding of trust-building in its social and institutional context does not just tell us something about the police, but also helps us understand how state institutions shape and maintain their position in the complex environments of our changing societies.

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Trust, trustworthiness and trust-building in international policing missions

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Toward Enhancing Police-Community Relations in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects

Police trust-building strategies. A socio-institutional, comparative approach

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