Police science

Police science or police studies is the study of police work. It is a subfield of criminology and sociology.{{Cite journal |last=Loader |first=Ian |date=2011-03-01 |title=Where is Policing Studies?: A Review |url=https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/51/2/449/606204?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=The British Journal of Criminology |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=449–458 |doi=10.1093/bjc/azr007 |issn=0007-0955|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=McLaughlin |first=Eugene |last2=Murji |first2=Karim |date=1999 |title=The Postmodern Condition of the Police |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/lvplr21&div=18&id=&page= |journal=Liverpool Law Review |volume=21 |pages=217}} As an interdisciplinary science, the field includes contributions from political science,{{Cite journal |last=Soss |first=Joe |last2=Weaver |first2=Vesla |date=2017-05-11 |title=Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-060415-093825 |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |language=en |volume=20 |issue=2017 |pages=565–591 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-060415-093825 |issn=1094-2939}} forensic science, anthropology, psychology, jurisprudence, criminal justice, human geography,{{Cite journal |last=Bloch |first=Stefano |date=2021 |title=Police and policing in geography: From methods, to theory, to praxis |url=https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gec3.12555 |journal=Geography Compass |language=en |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=e12555 |doi=10.1111/gec3.12555 |issn=1749-8198|url-access=subscription }} correctional administration and penology. The field makes contributions to understanding of community policing, police culture, and other policing tactics or behaviors.

There was a "dizzying expansion" of police studies in the early 2000s with a large number of works being published in the field.

By country

=United Kingdom=

UK has developed the Police National Computer as a sophisticated intelligence tool that holds extensive data on criminals, vehicles and property, and accessible in a matter of seconds through over 30,000 terminals across the country.

PITO reports that a national fingerprint and DNA database has been developed containing over 3.4 million DNA profiles providing the police with an average of 3,000 matches a month. In 2004-5 there were over 40,000 matches.

The police use a wide range of technologies to curb road traffic offences like speeding and drunk driving including breathalyser devices, bus lane enforcement cameras, immobilisation devices, light signals devices and speed measuring devices.[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/using-science/police-science-tech UK has developed new technologies for effective policing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726174111/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/using-science/police-science-tech/ |date=2008-07-26 }}

=Bangladesh=

A department of Criminology and Police Science (CPS) has launched in 2003 at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070205105335/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/PoliceST_S2_part11.pdf?view=Binary UK moots a 5-year S&T Strategy (pdf)]

Category:Law enforcement theory