Presentation guidance:

 15 min

 25%

 To recognise behaviour and attitudes associated with police culture.

 To critically appreciate policy implications of police culture and difficulties of transforming

cultures

 Could use a positive aspect that has negative bits i.e. camaraderie.

 How do we change it whist maintaining its benefits?

 Why is it bad for me police on a policy level i.e. legitimacy?

 How do we the public view the police? Harder to recruit?

 Define police culture:

o Explain what it is

o Our idea of it changes over time – scholnick v chan for example

o Disagreements of defintion

 Implications of it

 Show evidence that its cause by culture

 Look at it form a strategic p.o.v

 How would you combat it to reduce it?

 Intro of new legislation

 Recruit – psychometric testing

 Code of ethics for police culture

 Education

 Punishment

 Disciplinary procedures

 One policing behaviour:

o Show why you’ve chosen the area

o Use examples – racism for example, Stephen Lawrence, McPherspon

o Introduce the problem

o Disagreements

o Can it lead to disorder, no feeling of legitimacy?

o Look at Punch’s work to see previously unsuccessful changes

 The extent to which police culture is the cause of such behaviour

 How to try to change, alter the behaviour i.e. look above more accountability mechanisms –
EXPLAIN IT!

 Let know what you’re doing, and how and why?

 The outcome:

o Recognise attitudes and behaviours associated with police culture

o Critically appreciate the policy implications of police culture and the difficulties of
transforming police culture

 Define police culture

 Implications:

o Why is it bad for the police?

o Legitimacy – how does it impact on the public, hard to recruit? – makes police look
ill-legitimate, unfair, bias, impact on trust with the public, hard to investigate. Want
to show the diverse in the police, represent all

 Racism, sexism, corruption:

o Negatives

o Positives

 Sexist:

o How do female officers feel to work there?

o Affect their promotion?

 Aware of the attitudes and behaviours. Evidence that (racism, sexism – academic resource)
is caused by police culture

 How would you be able to reduce

 How would you go about to change it

 Code of ethics – had no change according to the research – how successful it’s been

 Want to make a case as to why police culture is to blame

 Connection between problem and culture

 Show what you know what police culture is, that is contestant as it changes

 Can lead to a range of negative area – choose an area:

o Why you’ve chosen that area

o Important area –look over the past – lower percentage etc…

 Describe what the ‘area’ (sexism) is – citations:

 o What are the impacts

o Why is it a bad thing

o How can we see to address it – (in the past…)

1) 1 policing behaviour (max 2)

2) To what the extent to which police culture is the caus of that behaviour

3) How the police organisation could try to alter/change that behaviour ( i.e training,
recruitment)