Abstract

Civilian oversight has emerged as the preferred approach for policing the police in support of more democratic societies. This work provides an analytical review of formal civilian oversight for democratic policing outlining the benefits as well as the key challenges such oversight encounters. It then offers some insights on the required framework and environment for overcoming those challenges for improved police accountability, drawing on the author’s field experience. It also extends the comparative analysis about formal civilian oversight for democratic policing by providing a much more international perspective including a typology of the various classifications and approaches to such oversight.

摘要

平民监督已成为支持更民主社会的警察维持治安的首选方法。这项工作提供了对民主警务的正式文职监督的分析审查，概述了此类监督所面临的好处和主要挑战。然后，它利用作者的实地经验，就克服这些挑战以改善警察问责制所需的框架和环境提供了一些见解。它还通过提供更加国际化的视角（包括此类监督的各种分类和方法的类型），扩展了对民主警务的正式文职监督的比较分析。