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Comparative Police Systems Overview

Comparative policing involves studying and comparing different police systems to better understand similarities and differences in approaches to law enforcement internationally. It is important because crime has become a global issue requiring cooperation across borders. There are two main methods for comparing police systems - visiting other countries directly or collaborating with foreign researchers. Police systems can be compared based on factors like whether police prioritize serving the community or higher authorities, and whether the focus is on preventing crimes or making arrests.

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Comparative Police Systems Overview

Comparative policing involves studying and comparing different police systems to better understand similarities and differences in approaches to law enforcement internationally. It is important because crime has become a global issue requiring cooperation across borders. There are two main methods for comparing police systems - visiting other countries directly or collaborating with foreign researchers. Police systems can be compared based on factors like whether police prioritize serving the community or higher authorities, and whether the focus is on preventing crimes or making arrests.

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LEA 2- COMPARATIVE

POLICE SYSTEM
PREPARED BY: JERICHO ROSALES
What is Comparative?
• It denotes the degree or grade degree by which a person, thing, or other 
 by which a person, thing, or other  entity has a property or quality has
greater or less greater in extent than that of another.
• An estimate of relative likeness or unlikeness of two objects or events.
Why do we need to study comparative
police system?
• To outline the similarities and differences of one police system to another
in order to discover insights to discover in the field of international
policing.
• It is the science and art of investigating and comparing the police system
of nations. It covers the study of police organizations, trainings and
methods of policing of various nations,
Why Compare?
• Crime has become a global  phenomenon.
• Transnational crime across borders and he need of bilateral and
international cooperation becomes imperative.
How to compare?
2 Methods of Comparing:
1. Safari Method
The researcher needs to visit another country.
2. Collaborative Method
Researcher needs to communicate with foreign researcher.
THEORIES OF POLICING SYSTEM
HOMERULE THEORY CONTINENTAL THEORY

• Policemen are servants of the community • Policemen are servant of the higher authority
• Effectiveness of the policemen depends on the • They just follow the wishes of the higher or top
express wishes of the community. ranking officials.
OLD POLICING MODERN POLICING
• The yardstick of the efficiency of the police is • The yardstick of police efficiency is the absence
determined on the number of arrest of lesser occurrence of crimes.
• Punishment is the sole instrument of crime • Police Omnipresence is considered as the tool or
control instrument of crime prevention.
The Three Style of Policing
1. Legalistic
Emphasizes on helping the community, as opposed to enforcing the law.
2. Watchman
Emphasizes on informal means of resolving disputes.
3. Service
Emphasizes the use of threat or actual arrest to solve disputes.
Theories of Comparative Policing
1. Alertness to crime theory
As nation develops, people’s alertness to crime heightened.
2. Economic or migration theory
Crime is a result of under strained migration or overpopulation.
3. Opportunity theory
With high standards of living, people becomes careless of their
belongings.

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