This research study explores knowledge management (KM) in law enforcement, focusing on the POLNET system established by the Turkish National Police as a knowledge-sharing tool. This study employs a qualitative case study for exploratory and descriptive purposes. The qualitative data set came from semi-structured face-to-face and telephone interviews, as well as self-administered e-mail questionnaires. The sample was composed of police administrators who created POLNET, working under the Department of Information Technologies and the Department of Communication. A content analysis method is used to analyze the data. This study finds that law enforcement organizations' KM strategies have several differences from Handzic and Zhou's integrated KM model. Especially, organizational culture and structure of law enforcement agencies differently affect knowledge creation, conversion, retrieval, and sharing processes. Accordingly, this study offers a new model which is dynamic and suggests that outcomes always affect drivers.

The history of urban policing paints an evolutionary picture describing the various forces that impinged on society's earliest efforts at public policing and led to numerous reforms culminating in what has been termed the professional model of policing. The dynamics of an ever-changing urban society continued to present new challenges to policing and have driven police administrators and politicians to seek new methods of responding to society's criminal element.

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This study seeks to identify a relationship between Rational Choice/Classical thought and resisting arrest among criminal offenders. It seeks also to fill the gap that currently exists with regard to the effects of situational dynamics and police-citizen violence.

This study was conducted in an effort to explore the attitudes and knowledge held by law enforcement officers regarding child maltreatment. This study was completely exploratory in nature, with no hypothesis about the outcome.

Thesis (M. A. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / The study focused on Community Policing Forums (CPFs), sector policing and visible policing which are the policing strategies that are currently used to bring police officers closer to the community in order to identify and address the root causes of crime. These strategies are also meant to improve police service delivery which will satisfy and meet the community’s expectations about police services. The study also focused on factors which affect the lack of police service delivery to the community. Quantitative research design was used to evaluate Mamotintane community’s level of satisfaction with police service delivery. Non-probability sampling was used in which purposive or judgmental sampling methodology was used to select the 120 community members from Mamotintane Village. A fixed-response questionnaire that was written in English then translated in Sepedi which is the language commonly used by the target population was used in the study. A Statistical Package for Social Science (IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22) software was then used to analyse the data which was presented in a form of graphs and tables. Summary of the empirical findings are that a large number of 33% community members disagree that CPFs are successfully established in the community where police officers have regular meetings with community members in order to discuss about crimes which are affecting the community. A large number of 43% respondents strongly agree that police corruption has a negative impact to the community.

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Bakgrund: Polismyndighetens mål och budget återfinns i regleringsbrevet som varje år ges ut av regeringen. Genom regleringsbrevet vill regeringen på så sätt styra polisverksamheten. Det kan uppstå ett problem i denna process då politikerna inte alltid innehar den insikt som krävs för att sätta målen på ett verklighetsenigt sätt, vilket innebär att målen inom offentlig sektor ofta ses som otydliga. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att förstå hur Polismyndigheten styr utifrån regeringens mål samt vilka problem som kan uppstå. Dessutom ligger fokus på att ge insikt i hur målen hanteras och omvandlas i praktiken samt hur man förstår dem på olika nivåer inom organisationen. Vidare undersöks hur prestationsmätning utförs i praktiken samt vilka problem som uppstår i detta arbete. Metod: Genom en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi och en abduktiv ansats har en enfallstudie med semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts. Även dokument har studerats som ett komplement till de semistrukturerade intervjuerna. Slutsats: Regleringsbrevet bryts ner till en verksamhetsplan (Strategi 2024) och den operationaliseras sedan ute på de olika avdelningarna och regionerna. Problemen vi fann är en brist i förståelse mellan politiker och Polismyndigheten gällande kunskap samt att myndigheten inte äger hela rättsprocessen då andra myndigheters arbete också spelar in här. En enorm mängd mätningar görs både av kvalitativ och kvantitativ art. Under senare år har ett stort fokus lagts på effekten av insatserna vilket också är en del av problemet då effekter är svåra mäta. Uppföljningen handlar om att se till effekterna som målen ska leda till men det är däremot svårt att veta om ett mål är uppfyllt eller inte då målen är av ökande, minskande eller bibehållande art. Informationen från uppföljningarna används av högre uppsatta chefer för utvärdering samt förbättringar i verksamheten. / Background: The police agencies goals and budgets are given from government directives which are given out each year by the government. Through these directives the government means to manage the police operation. A problem can occur in this process since politicians do not always have the required understanding of needed to set realistic targets, which leads to goals within the public sector often being seen as obscure. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how the Swedish police agency is managed through the governments goals and which problems can occur. The aim is also to provide insight these goals are handled and transformed in practice as well as how these goals are understood on different levels within the organisation. Furthermore, we examine how performance measurement is used in practice as well as which problems occur in the process. Method: Through a qualitative research strategy and an abductive approach, a case study containing semi-structured interviews has been completed. Documents have also been studied as a complement to these semi-structured interviews. Conclusion: The government directives are broken down into a business plan (Strategy 2024) which is further operationalised in the different departments and regions. The problems we found were a lack of understanding between the politicians and police agency regarding knowledge as well as the agency itself does not own the entire legal process, since other agencies also play a part in it. An enormous number of measurements are being performed of both qualitative and quantitative sorts. During the last years, a large focus has been put on the actual effect of their efforts which also is a part of the problem since effects are difficult to measure. Monitoring is about looking at the effects that the goals are intended to provide but it can be difficult to assess whether a goal is attained or not since these goals are set in a way that they must always increase, decrease or be maintained. The information from the monitoring process is used by leaders within the organisation for evaluations as well as for making improvements to the organisation.

Context: The widespread use of communication and digital technology in the society has affected the number of devices requiring analysis in criminal investigations. Additionally, the increase of storage volume, the diversity of digital devices, and the use of cloud environment introduce more complexities to the digital forensic domain. Objective: This work aims to supply a taxonomy of the main challenges and success factors faced in the digital forensic domain in law enforcement. Method: The chosen method for this research is a systematic literature review of studies with topics related to success factors and challenges in digital forensics for law enforcement. The candidate studies were 1,428 peer-reviewed scientific articles published between 2015 and 2021. Those studies were retrieved from five digital databases following a systematic process. From those candidate studies, twenty were selected as primary studies due to their relevance to the topic. After backward searching, eight other studies were also included in the group of primary studies. A total of twentyeight primary studies were analyzed by applying thematic coding. Furthermore, a survey of digital forensic practitioners from the Swedish Police was held to triangulate the results achieved with the systematic literature review.