Chapter 3 The police intelligence division-of-labour
This article describes the police intelligence division-of-labour. It is argued that police organisation gains overall coherence in relation to the 'police métier'; a rationale that allows protagonists in the police world to make sense of an irrational workplace structure where personal l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Sumario: | This article describes the police intelligence division-of-labour. It is argued that police organisation gains overall coherence in relation to the 'police métier'; a rationale that allows protagonists in the police world to make sense of an irrational workplace structure where personal loyalty, trust and honour (not formal organisational logic) form the basis of action and compliance. The concept of the police métier is defined in terms of the police professional concern with the mastery of surveillance and coercion in the reproduction of order, the making of crime and the governance of insecurity, and it is the polestar of the police mindset. The article describes the police intelligence division-of-labour paying specific attention to four different aspects of intelligence activity: the acquisition of intelligence or information; the analysis of information in the production of intelligence; tasking and co-ordination on the basis of intelligence 'product'; or being tasked on that same basis. The descriptive analysis presented here is useful in several respects. Firstly it provides a basis for the comparative study of police intelligence work and its configuration within broader processes of security governance. Secondly, it provides a prototypical organisational map useful understanding the orientation of particular units - the organisational elements of policework (e.g. of drug squads, primary response, public order and homicide investigation units) - within the broader police division-of-labour. Lastly, it provides a complex view of issues concerning democratic governance of 'the police' as they are configured as nodes within broader networks of security governance. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 electronic resource (17 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780429060687 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |