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 loyalty,...
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| author | Sheptycki, James |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-344832025-03-04T09:48:10Z Chapter 3 The police intelligence division-of-labour Sheptycki, James police intelligence division of labour thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-10-17 13:50:25 2020-04-01T10:21:33Z 2019 chapter 1005008 OCN: 1135845302 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25086 9780429060687 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34483 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25086/1/9780367182915_oachapter3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25086/1/9780367182915_oachapter3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25086/1/9780367182915_oachapter3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25086/1/9780367182915_oachapter3.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Policing Across Organisational Boundaries 9780429060687 Routledge 17 open access |
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