caa a22 4500 445805994 CHVBK 20180317145156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9272-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9272-y Terpstra Jan University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut Governance and accountability in community policing [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Terpstra] Community policing presents its own distinct governance and accountability challenges. Local community police officers, for example, can find themselves stretched between the accountability demands of the local community and those flowing from professional, managerial and central government sources. Drawing on the results of a recent ethnographic study on neighbourhood police officers in rural and urban areas in the Netherlands, this article probes the nature and extent of these tensions and the coping strategies deployed by the officers in question and the police organisation as a whole. It finds that a regular strategy is to neutralise or marginalise the voice of the local community in shaping police priorities and strategies. Local democratic control of the police is often smothered by the competing professional, managerial, cultural and central government forces. This, in turn, has the effect of putting distance between police offices and citizens, and even creating a demand for the engagement of private sector patrol officers who are more responsive to the needs and wishes of the local community. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/2-3(2011-04-01), 87-104 0925-4994 55:2-3<87 2011 55 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9272-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9272-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Terpstra Jan University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/2-3(2011-04-01), 87-104 0925-4994 55:2-3<87 2011 55 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer