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Title:Donkerder skakerings van blou = Darker shades of blue
Author:Steyn, JeanISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Tydskrif vir geesteswetenskappe
Volume:48
Issue:4
Pages:412-438
Language:Afrikaans
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:police
values
Abstract:South Africa's 1996 Constitution made provision for the establishment of a National Police Service that is transparent, accountable, representative, legitimate and impartial. The Constitution implicitly prescribes community policing as the style of policing to be adopted by the South African Police Service (SAPS) as a vehicle to improve police-community relations and enhance delivery to all citizens. For change in the policing style to be effective the ideology must be supported by the life and world view within the police culture. This article reports on a preliminary investigation into the presence or absence of deviant police culture themes (solidarity, isolation, cynicism) that go against the grain of the principles of community-oriented policing. The investigation was conducted among SAPS recruits entering basic police training in January 2005 and it documented changes that may have occurred in their attitudes over the six-month basic training period and the subsequent six months of field training. The research found significant evidence that the SAPS is recruiting newcomers whose attitudes conform to a police culture of solidarity, isolation and cynicism. The SAPS basic training generally only serves to maintain or strengthen these attitudes. Bibliogr., sum. in English and Afrikaans, text in Afrikaans. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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