Following Nolan’s standard of conduct in Public Office namely: Selflessness, Integrity, Openness, Objectivity, Honesty and Accountability, each failure listed can be found to be lacking in one or more of these standards. It is the lessons learned and the recommendations from these inquiries that will guide a general policing strategy that is embracing in all aspect of policing. Below are some of the scandals and enquiries that have and are still shaping policing from the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.
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Despite the commentaries on police strategy as the reason behind every performance related policing failure, precise directive on the direction that police strategy should take have not been assessed against cyberspace policing; more so the recent reviews of past failures have made recommendations on general policing practice and there is little relationship between these recommendation and failures in cyberspace policing which the Home office published. Policing of cyberspace is yet to feature in any research on what form of strategy is best suited to it. Since the year 2000; the focus of research in policing strategy has incorporated academic/ theoretical approach to strategy with practical experiences and case studies, some of which prescribed and re-defined policing strategy. However there has been no explicit evidence supporting any particular form of police strategy with organisational …show more content…
Morden British police force was modelled after Sir Robert Peel’s policing principle which was also adopted by many other countries. The applicability of the above model is realistic in a real world with geographical boundary however the peculiarity of cyberspace namely; anonymous, encrypted, automated distributed and untraceable makes the police force contradictory and limited in policing cyberspace. Prior to the proliferation of cyberspace and computer related crime, Policing has evolved from a monopoly to a pluralized service. Expertise and responsibility is now collectively shared by various agencies within the society, government and the police force. Yet policing strategy in this setting is still vital in that the limitation and legitimacy of the stakeholders requires a policing strategy that weighs its justice based approach, crime and punishment strategy and monopolistic role to a learning (continuous learning entity).
Professor John Grieves in his Lecture Notes suggested 7Cs for policing in 21st century, from his research work with Professor Jonathan Credo in 2007. These 7Cs are applied within Cyberspace policing to scope its applicability below.
COPS: Britain in twenty first century is a volatile society; fragmented and multi-cultural country. Policing in the century have inherited some elements of the society that it polices; a society that can be aptly