Police Reform
The Police Reform programme focuses on issues relating to the reform of the public police in Africa more generally, and Southern Africa more specifically. The research aims to contribute to the development of African police studies by coming to terms with the state of the public police in Africa; the policy frameworks in terms of which police reform is articulated, and the structural constraints confronting such reform. A deliberate attempt is also made to situate the discussion on police reform in the crime context by exploring the challenges confronting the police's role in crime control and crime prevention in Africa.
Other focus areas include:
- Police in the context of Peacekeeping - an exploration of the way in which the transnational space of peace missions places new demands on pockets of national police.
- Policy transfer - on going engagement with debates on policy transfer and emulation.
- Policing conflict: challenges and dilemmas - an investigation into the politics and logistics of policing conflict and the conflict of policing through the examination of national and regional case studies.
- Social history of criminal justice reform - exploring through a series of case studies the social histories of South African criminal justice reform with the view to documentating through oral histories the percpetions and experience of elites situated in policy networks, bureaucratic institutions and/or civil society structures of post-Apartheid reconstruction of criminal justice.
Access information about police reform on the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF)website. This is a collaboration between APCOF and the Centre of Criminology. Access the site online here>>>>>.