French Police Reform in the Mirror of Foreign Community Policing; La Reforme Francaise au Miroir des Polices de Proximite Etrangeres (From Les delemmes de la proximite, P 173-183, 2000, Frederic Ocqueteau, ed.)

• NCJ Number: 186677
• Author(s): Frederic Ocqueteau
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 11 pages
• Sale Source: Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Secutite Interieure
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: French
• Country: France
• Note: Revue de sciences sociales, No. 39

Annotation

This article compares police reform in France with the community policing reforms in other countries.

Abstract

The descriptions and evaluations of community policing in a number of European countries reveal contradictory procedures and mixed results in terms of their effectiveness. The interpretation of the degree of proximity between the police and the citizenry, and vice versa, in matters of public security is in constant tension. These conflicts pertain to the selection of targets for peacekeeping in urban areas, i.e., priorities, repression versus problem-solving, or the identification of troublemakers.