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Policing: The patrol sergeants’ perspective

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Implementing community policing is a complex and difficult task for police departments. Patrol sergeants are essential in accomplishing any organizational change and so their observations should be used to modify and finetune community policing efforts. A group of twenty patrol sergeants were interviewed regarding the change strategies which helped or hurt implementation of community policing. Several statistical analyses are discussed with age being the only factor which was significantly related to supervisor’s attitudes toward community policing.

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  1. Austin Police Department, Austin, USA

    Rick Bradstreet Ph.D.

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Bradstreet, R. Policing: The patrol sergeants’ perspective. J Police Crim Psych 12, 1–6 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02813806

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