Police Integrity in South Africa

Police Integrity in South Africa
Author: Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2020-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1317266900

Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the South African police force into a democratic police agency—the South African Police Service (SAPS)—that would provide unbiased policing to all the country’s people. More than two decades since the initiation of the reforms, it appears that the SAPS has rapidly developed a reputation as a police agency beset by challenges to its integrity. This book offers a unique perspective by providing in-depth analyses of police integrity in South Africa. It is a case study that systematically and empirically explores the contours of police integrity in a young democracy. Using the organizational theory of police integrity, the book analyzes the complex set of historical, legal, political, social, and economic circumstances shaping police integrity. A discussion of the theoretical framework is accompanied by the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 900 SAPS officers, probing their familiarity with official rules, their expectations of discipline within the SAPS, and their willingness to report misconduct. The book also examines the influence of the respondents’ race, gender, and supervisory status on police integrity. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology, political science, as well as to police administrators interested in expanding their knowledge about police integrity and enhancing it in their organizations.

Exploring Police Integrity

Exploring Police Integrity
Author: Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030290654

This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and testing police integrity theory and methodology, the relationship between community and integrity, and the influence of multiculturalism and globalization on policing and community attitudes. This work brings together experienced scholars who have used the police integrity theory and the accompanying methodology to measure police integrity in eleven countries, and provide advance and sophisticated explorations of the topic. Organized into three thematic sections, it explores the testing methodology for international comparisons, insights into police-community relations, and explores police subcultures. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers in criminology & criminal justice, particularly with an interest in policing, as well as related fields such as sociology, public policy, and comparative law.

Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration

Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration
Author: Adam Graycar
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789900913

This timely Handbook unpacks the underlying common factors that give rise to corrupting environments. Investigating opportunities to deliver ethical public policy, it explores global trends in public administration and its vulnerability to corruption today, as well as proposing strategies for building integrity and diminishing corruption in public sectors around the globe.

The Contours of Police Integrity

The Contours of Police Integrity
Author: Carl B. Klockars
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0761925864

Presenting a comprehensive overview of the potential for police misconduct worldwide, leading criminal justice scholars have compiled survey and case data from 10 countries chronicling police integrity and misconduct.

Measuring Police Integrity Across the World

Measuring Police Integrity Across the World
Author: Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1493922793

This book brings together research on police integrity on regions worldwide. The results for each country indicate whether police officers know the official rules, how seriously they view police misconduct, what they think the appropriate and expected discipline for misconduct should be, and how willing they are to report it. Police misconduct refers to everything from corruption and use excessive force, to perjury, falsification of evidence, and failure to react. Police Integrity and police misconduct are topics of great concern worldwide. Police integrity is envisioned as the inclination to resist temptations to abuse the rights and privileges of police occupation. Using their extensive experience studying police integrity in the United States, the editors have created an applicable framework for measuring police integrity in other countries. The results of their research are brought together in this timely volume, including contributions from both established democracies and countries in transition, which each present unique challenges for improving police integrity. Each chapter follows the same format and contains a theoretical analysis of the relevant legal, historical, political, social, and economic conditions in the country, followed by the analyses of empirical results and policy recommendations. In the last chapter, editors Kutnjak Ivković and Haberfeld take a comparative look across the countries by engaging in the in-depth comparative analysis. This work will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers studying policing both in the United States and internationally, presenting a theoretical framework that can be applied to other regions for further research.

Integrity Among Non-commissioned Officials of the South African Police Service, Gauteng Province

Integrity Among Non-commissioned Officials of the South African Police Service, Gauteng Province
Author: Salome Reyneke-Tarbitt
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

Establishing a police culture of integrity is a key ingredient of democratic policing. This research explores the presence of integrity of non-commissioned officials within the SAPS. Some of the findings indicate that a non-trivial percentage of respondents did not recognize even the most severe forms of police corruption as violations of official rules. The study found that the seriousness of the transgression was strongly related to the willingness to report as well as the level of discipline.

Behind the Badge

Behind the Badge
Author: Andrew Faull
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1770200991

Every South African has a strong opinion on crime and policing, but most know very little about the lives and experiences of the average cop in the 185 000-strong South African Police Service. This book is composed of excerpts from interviews with current and former members of the service who, for the first time, share their personal experiences of life behind the badge. The book covers a wide range of themes, including reasons for signing up, training, policing under apartheid and transformation after 1994. It describes the experience of solving cases, using lethal force, being shot at and losing colleagues. Policemen and -women speak frankly about the psychological toll of police work and the impact on their family lives, and give startling insights into ethics, torture, corruption, sex and power. There is a mantra among police: ‘What happens on the shift stays on the shift.’ In Behind the Badge, members break through this wall of silence and reveal the hidden life of the police.

Victoria Police

Victoria Police
Author: Victoria. Office of Police Integrity
Publisher:
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2012
Genre: Criminal investigation
ISBN:

"This report sets out the findings of an Office of Police Integrity (OPI) review of Victoria Police’s management of investigations, in particular, the management of 'high profile' cases - those cases which attract a high level of media attention. A recurring feature of many Victoria Police investigations is the unauthorised release of confidential information or 'leaking'. Although leaks occur when confidential information about an investigation is released by someone involved in the investigation to someone external to Victoria Police, many 'leaks' originate from other police who acquire information about an investigation when they do not have a legitimate 'need to know’ about it. They then wittingly, or unwittingly, pass the information on to a third party"--P. 6.