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Talking Cop: Discourses of change and policing identities

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2003. Talking Cop: Discourses of change and policing identities. Public Administration 81 (4) , pp. 681-699. 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2003.00367.x

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Abstract

This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two-year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within NPM that serve to challenge traditional understandings of policing organization and identities. The paper examines the implications of this for policies that promote community orientated policing (COP) and increased inter-agency partnership. The paper argues that the promotion of a more progressive form of policing, based on community orientation and equality principles, may struggle to gain legitimacy within the current performance regime that legitimizes a competitive masculine subjectivity, with its emphasis on crime fighting.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
ISSN: 1467-9299
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2022 09:16
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/2600

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