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Old wine in new bottles?, an exploratory analysis of community-based policing in rural Alberta
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dyck, Murray James |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | In recent years police organizations around the worfd have made a shift in their p hilosophy and style of policing service del ivery. This shift has been away from the reactive, incident driven style of police work Iargely referred to as the professional, bureaucratic, or traditional model of policing. Instead, police agencies have adopted a cornmunity-based approach which emphasizes a police-community partnership in order to facilitate a long-term problem solving approach for dealing with community problems. As a progressive and modern police organization, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has also made this shift in their mode of policing service delivery. Since 1989 the RCMP has made the adoption and implementation of community-based policing one of its top priorities. The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an exploratory analysis of RCMP community-based policing by seeking to answer three primary questions surrounding this issue. The study itself is cornposed of three distinct stages of research using a qualitative research methodology. This study is facilitated by way of an analysis of RCMP policy documents, telephone interviews with key informants, and in-person interviews with front-line RCMP respondents in rural Alberta. The research indicates that while the adoption of community-based policing has meant a change in the practices of the RCMP at the rural detachment level, there is still room for improvement in this regard. A significant finding is that many front-line members of the RCMP steadfastly believe that community-based policing has always been practised by the Force, while other evidence clearly shows that this is not the case. It has also been found that recent rieo-Foucaultian theones of govemance and risk management provide a useful framework for the analysis of the developrnent and current state of community-based policing efforts of the RCMP. This thesis concludes that h i l e substantial progress has been made by the RCMP to adopt and implement community-based policing practices over the past several years it is important that these efforts continue. This is necessary in order to ensure that the rhetoric of community-based policing becomes a reality in the lives of the members of the RCMP across this country. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1993/2715/MQ62722.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
