Fight and the Integrity of the Fight as an Element of Determining Safety in the Light of the Integrity of the Police Service

• NCJ Number: 237920
• Journal: Internal Security Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Dated: January 2009 Pages: 25-31
• Author(s): Andrzej Pawlowski
• Date Published: January 2009
• Length: 7 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
• Language: English
• Country: Poland

Annotation

This study examined the contemporary understanding of safety.

Abstract

Contemporary understanding of safety as a central category is analyzed not only from the viewpoint of military security but also in the context of economic, political, and ecological aspects. These dimensions of providing safety are to a large extent of interest to the police and are involved in their efforts aimed to protect and defend values underlying the law. Central to these efforts is the problem of fight, its scope, strategies and restrictions imposed by the law, ethics and other social norms. Thus, the analysis involves the notion of fight, its police specificity and limitations as a consequence of values and standards of professional integrity and their impact on effectiveness of policing. Quest for the boundary between effective fighting for values, including safety, and methods of fighting (with their risk of some values being violated) is mainly a moral issue which determines the dynamics of the integrity of police fight. (Published Abstract)