<p>Militär och polis har vid en hastig överblick en gemensam nämnare, nämligen legal våldsanvändning som en väg att lösa sina respektive uppgifter. Vad ställer detta för krav i fråga om etik och moral på respektive yrkesgrupp? Finns det fler likheter och vad finns det för skillnader, ur ett etiskt och moraliskt perspektiv? Syftet med denna uppsats är att identifiera vilka likheter och skillnader i krav på etik och moral det finns mellan officerare och poliser. Detta sker genom att beskriva vilka krav som ställs på en officer för att sedan beskriva vilka krav som ställs på en polis. Därefter sker en jämförelse och en analys i syfte att tydliggöra de likheter och skillnader som identifierats.</p><p> Uppsatsen visar att likheter förekommer i fråga om krav på att behålla sin etik i perioder då den inte sätts på prov och efter långa tider av passivitet i verksamheten. Likheter har även identifierats i respektive myndighets värdegrund då dessa ställer tydliga krav på sina anställda i fråga om människosyn och normer. Skillnaderna som har identifierats handlar bland annat om agerandet innan vapenanvändning. En officer har i uppgift att leda underställda i strid och blir tagen i anspråk när inga andra metoder har fungerat. En polis däremot, förväntas kunna ta till mindre våldsamma metoder för att lösa sin uppgift, innan han använder sitt vapen. Detta ställer högre krav på en polis. Ytterligare en skillnad som identifierats är förhållandet mellan befäl och underställd personal. Resultatet i detta fall visar att det ställs högre krav på en officer då dennes underställda har en lägre ålder, kortare utbildning och mindre livserfarenhet än polisbefälets underställda.</p> / <p>A quick overview tells us that legal use of force is the lowest common denominator between military officers and police officers. Which demands does this legal use of force make on the two categories, in terms of ethics and moral? Are there more similarities and what differences in an ethical perspective are there? The purpose of this essay is to identify the similarities and differences between military officers and police officers in terms of demands in an ethical and moral perspective. This is made by describing the demands on a military officer followed by a description of the demands on a police officer. Thereafter, a comparison and an analysis is made in purpose to clarify the similarities and differences which have been identified.</p><p>The essay shows that similarities occur in question of keeping your ethics in times when it is not tested and after long periods of passivity in the daily activities. Similarities have also been identified in each authority’s declaration of values. The declarations of values are making demands in terms of human value and norms. The differences that have been identified are mainly about the behavior before use of violence. A police officer is expected to use other methods, in order to solve his assignment, before he uses his weapon. A military officer, on the other hand, is trained to lead subordinates in combat and is assigned when all other methods has failed. The demands on a police officer are therefore considered higher, in that very case. Another difference that has been identified is the relation between the commander and his subordinates. The result in this case shows that the demands on a military officer are higher due to the subordinates’ younger age, shorter training and lesser life experience, compared to the police officers subordinates.</p>

Militär och polis har vid en hastig överblick en gemensam nämnare, nämligen legal våldsanvändning som en väg att lösa sina respektive uppgifter. Vad ställer detta för krav i fråga om etik och moral på respektive yrkesgrupp? Finns det fler likheter och vad finns det för skillnader, ur ett etiskt och moraliskt perspektiv? Syftet med denna uppsats är att identifiera vilka likheter och skillnader i krav på etik och moral det finns mellan officerare och poliser. Detta sker genom att beskriva vilka krav som ställs på en officer för att sedan beskriva vilka krav som ställs på en polis. Därefter sker en jämförelse och en analys i syfte att tydliggöra de likheter och skillnader som identifierats.  Uppsatsen visar att likheter förekommer i fråga om krav på att behålla sin etik i perioder då den inte sätts på prov och efter långa tider av passivitet i verksamheten. Likheter har även identifierats i respektive myndighets värdegrund då dessa ställer tydliga krav på sina anställda i fråga om människosyn och normer. Skillnaderna som har identifierats handlar bland annat om agerandet innan vapenanvändning. En officer har i uppgift att leda underställda i strid och blir tagen i anspråk när inga andra metoder har fungerat. En polis däremot, förväntas kunna ta till mindre våldsamma metoder för att lösa sin uppgift, innan han använder sitt vapen. Detta ställer högre krav på en polis. Ytterligare en skillnad som identifierats är förhållandet mellan befäl och underställd personal. Resultatet i detta fall visar att det ställs högre krav på en officer då dennes underställda har en lägre ålder, kortare utbildning och mindre livserfarenhet än polisbefälets underställda. / A quick overview tells us that legal use of force is the lowest common denominator between military officers and police officers. Which demands does this legal use of force make on the two categories, in terms of ethics and moral? Are there more similarities and what differences in an ethical perspective are there? The purpose of this essay is to identify the similarities and differences between military officers and police officers in terms of demands in an ethical and moral perspective. This is made by describing the demands on a military officer followed by a description of the demands on a police officer. Thereafter, a comparison and an analysis is made in purpose to clarify the similarities and differences which have been identified. The essay shows that similarities occur in question of keeping your ethics in times when it is not tested and after long periods of passivity in the daily activities. Similarities have also been identified in each authority’s declaration of values. The declarations of values are making demands in terms of human value and norms. The differences that have been identified are mainly about the behavior before use of violence. A police officer is expected to use other methods, in order to solve his assignment, before he uses his weapon. A military officer, on the other hand, is trained to lead subordinates in combat and is assigned when all other methods has failed. The demands on a police officer are therefore considered higher, in that very case. Another difference that has been identified is the relation between the commander and his subordinates. The result in this case shows that the demands on a military officer are higher due to the subordinates’ younger age, shorter training and lesser life experience, compared to the police officers subordinates.

A police officer may be subject to anumber of complex situationsand stresses intheir everyday work in which different emotionsmay occur, and whereemotional labour is necessary.  Our intent of the study isto increase understanding of the emotional partof the police work. How the police areexperiencing an emotional preparation for work,experiencing the feelings that occur in work,and how emotions are processed. Wewill also see howthe police handlethe transmutation from their private feelings anddeal with the waythey express the emotional expressions that the colleagues and thepublic expect to see in different situations. We will see how theyhandle the transmutation from public feelings toprivate feelings again.The intention of the study is also to see if thereare organizational conditions that cansimplify the emotional labour of a police,and identify the conditions. We haveconducted seven qualitativeinterviews. By means of thecollected empirical and the theoretical basewe will analyze the emotional labour of a police, and analyze the factors that may affect the emotionallabour.The analysis describes the presence of individual factors, social support and organizational factorsthat can affectthe emotional workof a police. We illustratethe emotional workof a police with thehelp of a model that shows the relationship between different the factors. / Politietkan bli utsatt for en rekke komplekse og påkjennende situasjoner i sinarbeidshverdag hvor ulike følelser kan oppstå, og der et emosjonelt arbeid blirnødvendig. Vårt formål med studiet er å øke forståelsen for denemosjonelle delen i politiets arbeid. Hvordan politiet opplever forberedelsentil et emosjonelt arbeid, opplever følelsene som oppstår i arbeidet, samthvordan følelsene bearbeides. Vi vil også se hvordan politiet handtererovergangen fra sine private følelser, og handterer de slik at de viser defølelsesutrykk som kollegaer og allmennheten forventer seg å se i ulikesituasjoner. Vi vil også se hvordan overgangen handteres fra de offentligefølelsene til private igjen. Studiets formål er å se om det finnesorganisatoriske forutsetninger som kan forenkle det emosjonelle arbeidet til politiet,og hvordan disse ser ut. Vi har gjennomført syv kvalitative intervjuer. Med hjelp av den innsamledeempirien og studiets teoretiske utgangspunkt analyserer vi politietsemosjonelle arbeid, og faktorer som kan påvirke det emosjonelle arbeidet. Analysen beskriver at det finnesindividuelle faktorer, sosial støtte og organisatoriske faktorer som kanpåvirke det emosjonelle arbeidet til politiet. Vi illustrerer det emosjonellearbeidet til politiet med hjelp av en egen modell som viser sammenhengen mellomde ulike faktorene.

Contexte et objectif. Afin de résorber le problème de la violence en milieu scolaire, de nombreux programmes et partenariats « police-école » ont vu le jour. Malgré la popularité de ces initiatives, les évaluations établissent toutefois que leurs effets sur la violence et la délinquance sont plutôt triviaux. Récemment, le programme de prévention « Unité sans violence » a été implanté dans plusieurs écoles de la région métropolitaine de Montréal et une évaluation préliminaire rapporte que son introduction fut suivie d’une baisse significative de la victimisation. À l’aide d’une approche mixte, l’objectif de ce mémoire est d’explorer la pertinence des concepts du rôle paradoxale et de l’intervention en contexte d’autorité afin de mieux comprendre les interactions entre les partenaires du programme et d’identifier de nouvelles pistes permettant de mieux comprendre les effets des programmes policiers en milieu scolaire. Méthodologie. La recherche repose sur des données qualitatives et quantitatives. D’une part, des entretiens semi-directifs ont été réalisés auprès des intervenants (policiers, enseignants et éducateurs spécialisés) afin de recueillir leur point de vue et expérience par rapport au programme. D’autre part, des questionnaires ont été administrés aux élèves de cinquième et sixième année de 20 écoles, ce qui a permis de documenter leur perception des policiers. Résultats. Les résultats aux entrevues suggèrent que les rôles d’aidant du policier et celui plus répressif s’inscrivent en continuité plutôt qu’en contradiction. Les rôles d’éducateur et de « grand frère » du policier seraient très bien reçus par les élèves. L’expérience des policiers, leur approche empathique et personnalisée ainsi que leur intérêt pour le travail communautaire apparaissent comme des éléments clés du bon déroulement du programme. Les résultats aux questionnaires montrent d’ailleurs que les élèves ont une perception très favorable des policiers. Conclusion. Les concepts de rôle et d’intervention en contexte d’autorité apparaissent comme des éléments clés qui devraient être intégrés à toute recherche évaluative visant à mieux comprendre l’effet des programmes policiers sur la délinquance. De plus, d’autres évaluations quantitatives du programme « Unité sans violence » sont nécessaires pour mieux comprendre l’influence de certaines de ses composantes, soit le renforcement positif, l’étalement du programme tout au long de l’année scolaire, le rôle des enseignants dans la transmission du message et l’exposition continue au programme entre la cinquième et sixième année. / Context and objectives. Several « police-school » partnerships and programs have been developed in order to combat school violence. Despite the popularity of these incentives,evidence from several studies show that their effects on violence are rather trivial.Recently, a prevention program, “Unit Without Violence”, was implemented in several schools of the greater Montreal region. Preliminary assessments suggest that its introduction led to a significant reduction in violent victimizations. Using a mixed approach, the objective of this dissertation is to explore the relevance of the concepts of the dual role of police officers and that of intervention in a context of authority to further our understanding about interactions between partners and identify new concepts for investigating the effects of police programs on school delinquency. Method. A mixed research design was developed to gather qualitative and quantitative data. On one hand, semi-structured interviews were conducted with stakeholders (police officers, teachers and other specialists) to gather data on their views and experiences with the program. On the other hand, a paper-pencil survey was administered to fifth and sixth grade pupils of 20 schools to measure their perceptions about the police. Results. The present results suggest that the repressive and the resource-person roles are rather in continuity than in conflict. The educative and big-brother roles of police officers appear to be well received by pupils. The experience of police officers, their empathetic and custom approach as well as their interest for community work are seen as key elements of the success of the program. Survey results also show that pupils have a very positive perception of the police. Conclusion. Concepts related to the role of police officers and interventions in a context of authority are seen as key elements that should be included in any evaluation seeking to investigate the effect of police programs on school delinquency. Furthermore, additional quantitative assessments of the “Unit Without Violence” program are needed to further our understanding of the mediating effects, on school violence, of certain of its features such as the length of the program (the program is given through the whole school year),the positive reinforcement aspect, the teacher’s role in transmitting the message of the program and the continued exposure to the program between fifth and sixth grades.

Syftet med studien var att beskriva områdespolisers syn på att arbeta nära medborgaren samt om och i så fall hur synen på arbetet skiljde sig mellan områdespoliser i en storstadsregion och en glesbygdsregion. Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex områdespoliser, tre från vardera region, fann vi att samtliga intervjudeltagare hade svårt att definiera vad det innebar att arbeta nära medborgaren. De hade även svårt att urskilja vad som var brottsförebyggande och reaktivt i arbetet. En tydlig skillnad mellan områdespolisernas syn på arbetet var att de intervjuade i storstaden fokuserade på individen medan de i glesbygden fokuserade på det lokala samhället. Detta var återkommande skillnader genom hela resultatet. Områdespolisernas arbete förknippades med flera olika utmaningar och möjligheter men samtliga intervjudeltagare såg positivt på att arbeta mot att komma närmare medborgaren och att bli mer brottsförebyggande. / The aim of the study was to describe the views of community police officers towards working close to the citizen and if the views differed between community police officers in a metropolitan area and in a rural region, and if so, how they differed. Through semi structured interviews with six community police officers, three from each region, we found that all interviewees had difficulty defining what it meant to be close to the citizen. They also had difficulty distinguishing what was preventive and reactive in their work. A clear difference between the viewpoints of the work was that interviewees in the metropolitan area focused on the individuals while the interviewees in the rural areas focused on the local society. These were frequent differences throughout the result. The work of the community police officers was associated with a variety of challenges and opportunities, but all interviewees were pleased to work towards getting closer to the citizen and becoming more preventive.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:55:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 zelin.pdf: 3328826 bytes, checksum: ba570772aa91e04b7531da3adc91cd67 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This Dissertation investigated and contextualized through the prism doctrinal foundations of the bases of the Territorial Urbane Projection in his several emphases with an experimental approach articulating the actions of Administrative Police officer and the operational job of the Military police. In this sense, it was used like theoretical referential system, the guiding concepts of public order and of administrative police officer, which there understand several activities made a list to the operational job of the Military police giving including legal sustenance for the exercise of his activity end based on the Administrative Right. In treating, still, as a theoretical referential system, different concept that orientated the work it was it of Territorial Development with some different approaches, principally turned to the concepts of the Town planning Right, aiming, so, to find solutions of social, economical and space development to reduce the criminality before the police effective presence, as well as through actions of administrative police officer focused in the urbane sketch. In this sense, inhabitant of Santa Catarina built on the doctrinal argument as for the intervention in depressed or stagnant regions like the form of reduction sensation of insecurity and of the social and economical imbalances materialized in the territory and in his several urbane zones of descoesão socially, as well as in too many urbane zones. The employed methodology was the deductive method (basic inquiry and state of the art) added up to the qualitative inquiry based on semi-structured interviews. In order that the field of investigation was delimited there delimited like cutting out of the inquiry the área of 21 ° BPM (Battalion of Military police. The white public they were the members of the CONSEG of the North of the Island of Santa Catarina, specially, and the integrants of the military police itself, as well as there was used the perceptions and technical professional knowledge acquired by the author of this dissertation in his almost 28 years of services been suitable to the Public Security. The proposed exercise its termination allows us to demonstrate that urban planning in the management of public safety becomes a tool for decision-making expertise to generate statistical data that can greatly help in setting goals in each of the regions of the city when patrolling the planning and employment-oriented operations in order to decrease or resolve pressures on public safety needs and thereby enhancing public governance. / Planejamento Territorial Urbano em suas diversas ênfases com uma abordagem experimental articulando as ações de Policia Administrativa e o emprego operacional da Polícia Militar. Neste sentido, se utilizou como referencial teórico, os conceitos norteadores de ordem pública e de polícia administrativa, que compreendem as diversas atividades relacionadas ao emprego operacional da Policia Militar dando inclusive sustentação jurídica para o exercício de sua atividade fim fundamentada no Direito Administrativo. Em se tratando, ainda, de referencial teórico, outro conceito que norteou o trabalho foi o de ¿Desenvolvimento Territorial¿ com algumas diferentes abordagens, principalmente voltada aos conceitos do Direito Urbanístico, visando, assim, encontrar soluções de desenvolvimento social, econômico e espacial para reduzir a criminalidade diante da presença policial efetiva, bem como através de ações de polícia administrativa focado no traçado urbano. Neste sentido, se construiu o argumento doutrinário quanto à intervenção em regiões deprimidas ou estagnadas como forma de atenuação da sensação de insegurança e dos desequilíbrios sociais e econômicos materializados no território catarinense e nas suas diversas zonas urbanas de descoesão social, bem como nas demais zonas urbanas. A metodologia empregada foi o método dedutivo (pesquisa básica e estado da arte) somada à pesquisa qualitativa baseada em entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A fim de se delimitar o campo de investigação se delimitou como recorte da pesquisa a área do 21° BPM (Batalhão de Policia Militar. O público alvo foram os membros dos CONSEG do Norte da Ilha de Santa Catarina, especialmente, e os integrantes da própria polícia militar, bem como se utilizou as percepções e conhecimentos técnicos profissionais adquiridos pelo autor desta dissertação em seus quase 28 anos de serviços prestados à Segurança Pública. O exercício proposto ao seu termino nos permite atestar que o planejamento urbano na gestão da segurança pública se torna uma ferramenta de tomada de decisão com competência técnica de geração de dados estatísticos que podem em muito contribuir no estabelecimento de metas em cada uma das regiões da cidade quando do planejamento do policiamento ostensivo orientado e no emprego de operações visando diminuir ou resolver pressões sobre necessidades na segurança pública e, assim, potencializando a governança pública

In the last 20 years, the number of incidents involving police use of force (UOF) has nearly doubled in Canada (Marcoux & Nicholson, 2018). There have been at least 460 documented fatal police encounters across Canada between the years 2000 and 2017 and at least 1,860 police UOF investigations specifically in Ontario (Dunn, 2018; Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2018). According to a 2019 annual report by Ottawa Police Service (OPS, 2019), a municipal police service in Ontario, between the years 2018 and 2019, OPS reported a 21% decrease (from 767 to 607) of applications of force among officers and a 15% increase (from 529 to 609) of UOF reports. Although the latter data is relevant to Ottawa, to better understand and potentially minimize negative police-civilian encounters, both specifically and on a larger scale, this Canadian-focused study centers on policing as well as the context at OPS and explores the extent to which professional education (PE) influences professional practice (PP). It does so by reviewing OPS’s UOF training and gathering perspectives from patrol officers and UOF educators. Using a qualitative instrumental case study (QICS) research design, the study analyzes the UOF training materials that OPS used to certify and recertify officers between the years 2010 and 2021. It also incorporates semi-structured interviews with officers and educators to gather insights on how participants define UOF, their perspectives on their pre-service and in-service training, as well as how they relate their PE to their police-civilian encounters, particularly when they used or did not use force. A document analysis of the data revealed that OPS’s UOF training uses both traditional as well as progressive and collaborative approaches to educate and relate to officers. Such approaches also aim to promote appropriate communication and de-escalation skills. At the same time, the learning objectives found in the lesson plans lack the detail needed to signify that officers have achieved the intended goal of the training. Among the important themes that emerged from the interviews were 1) the differences in priorities, between the officers and educators, concerning UOF training, 2) the value that officers place on their instructors’ experiences, 3) the challenges that educators face while adhering to provincial expectations, and 4) the integral role that training and life experiences play during police-civilian encounters. The relevance of social media was another significant theme that emerged within the study, particularly considering the participants’ views on the current social climate of policing (i.e., how the public perceives the police as well as the contentious debate about defunding the police). With limited research on police perspectives and issues specific to policing in Canada, the present study, by virtue of access to OPS’s training materials, patrol officers and UOF instructors, seeks to initiate rich and meaningful discussions about PE and PP. It also aims to encourage reflection among educators, policy-makers and society so as to address and deepen our understanding of issues related to education.

Police officers experience stress from operational and organizational demands which are extrinsic in nature. Officers may also experience stress from not being able to attain their personal goals for becoming a police officer, which is referred to as goal negation. The purpose of this mixed model, exploratory study was to examine if stress from goal negation is an intrinsic moderating factor of police officers' overall experience of career-related stress that may be adding to the health risks of the profession. The framework for the study included the concept of goal negation and the theory of operational and organizational or intrinsic and extrinsic stressors. The study was conducted in a Southern state with a sample of 52 acting police officers with 1 to 6 years of field experience. Two online survey questionnaires were modified from McCreary and Thompson's PSQ-Org and PSQ-Op and used to measure organizational and operational stressors. In-depth interviews added to the exploration of the lived experiences of officers in assessing their personal goal attainment. Results from the exploratory multivariate factor analysis of variance (MANOVA) of operational and organizational survey scores indicated that goal negation played a significant role in moderating stress for police officers in their duties. In addition, the content analysis of the interviews revealed a theme of conflict between police officers' personal goals and the operational role of police in the public context today. The results of this study will contribute to social change by informing police agencies, police training centers, and mental health treatment facilities of possible job sources of stress for new hires and career-oriented police personnel.

Contexte et objectifs. Dans le cadre de leurs interactions avec les citoyens, les policiers peuvent entre autres être victimes de menaces, insultes et voies de fait. Ces agressions se produisent parfois lorsque les policiers ne sont pas dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions. Ces événements sont imprévisibles et surviennent dans un contexte où les policiers sont davantage vulnérables, ne pouvant pas compter sur leurs collègues ou se préparer pour faire face à cette éventualité. Ces agressions sont ainsi susceptibles d’augmenter le sentiment d’insécurité des policiers et leurs craintes. Des incidents similaires peuvent produire des effets différents chez les policiers victimes. Or, peu d’études se sont attardées aux agressions vécues par les policiers lorsqu’ils ne sont pas en fonction. En ce sens, l’objectif général de ce mémoire est de comprendre les expériences d’agressions vécues par les policiers lorsqu’ils ne sont pas dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions. Plus spécifiquement, il s’agit d’ 1) identifier les différentes formes d’agressions vécues hors fonction, 2) identifier les éléments contextuels qui exercent une influence sur la perception de ces incidents et 3) décrire les répercussions de ces expériences chez les policiers exposés. Méthodologie. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, 23 entretiens semi-dirigés ont été réalisés auprès de policiers qui ont vécu des agressions en contexte hors fonction. Une analyse thématique et une étude de cas typique ont par la suite été utilisées pour examiner les données du corpus. Résultats. Les analyses illustrent un vaste éventail d’agressions qui ont lieu alors que les policiers ne sont plus en fonction, soit des agressions physiques, des infractions contre les biens, des menaces et de l’intimidation, des interactions non souhaitées et se faire suivre ou observer. Les propos des policiers permettent d’observer que le contexte « hors fonction » se caractérise par différents éléments qui ont une influence sur la perception de l’expérience. L’absence de ressources, le fait de se sentir ciblé personnellement et de ne pas considérer l’incident comme faisant « partie du travail » paraissent être des éléments qui particularisent les expériences d’agressions hors fonction. Ces incidents ont engendré différentes réactions et des répercussions psychologiques, physiques et comportementales chez les participants. Conclusion. Les résultats de cette recherche soulignent la pertinence de considérer plus largement le phénomène des agressions envers les policiers, c’est-à-dire en incluant des formes variées d’agressions et en élargissant les contextes dans lesquels elles peuvent se produire. / Context and objectives. During their interactions with citizens, police officers can be victims of verbal threats, insults or physical assaults. These aggressions sometimes take place when the officers are off-duty. These unpredictable events occur in a context where police officers are vulnerable. In fact, they cannot count on their colleagues or prepare themselves to face this aggression. These aggressions are likely to increase insecurity and the fear among victimized police officers. Depending on the context, similar incidents can generate different outcomes among victims. However, few studies have focused on aggressions experienced by police officers when they are not on duty. Thus, the purpose of this research project is to understand assaults experienced by police officers when they are off-duty. More specifically, this research aims at 1) describing different forms of aggression experienced off-duty, 2) identifying contextual elements influencing the perception about these events, and 3) describing outcomes associated with aggressions among victimized police officers. Methodology. To achieve these objectives, 23 semi-direct interviews were conducted with police officers who were aggressed when they were off-duty. A thematic analysis was used to examine the data corpus, and vignettes were used to present typical cases of aggressions. Results. Results indicate that police officers are victim of multiple forms of aggressions when they are off-duty, such as physical aggressions, damages against their property, threats or bullying, undesired interactions and being stalked or observed. Various contextual elements shape the perception of aggressions experienced by police officers. The lack of resources, the feeling of personally targeted, and considering that the incident is not part of the job affect perceptions about off-duty aggressions. These incidents generated different psychological, physical and behavioral repercussions among participants. Conclusions. Findings from this study highlight the relevance of broadening the concept of aggressions against police officers, namely by including various forms of incidents and accounting for contextual elements.

Syftet med studien var att skildra hur områdespoliser beskriver sitt kunskapsbaserade brottsförebyggande arbete i särskilt utsatta områden, riskområden samt utsatta områden. Detta har genomförts med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med områdespoliser stationerade i nämnda områden. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys har tillämpats för att studera datamaterialet. Vidare har materialet analyserats för att skildra om och hur områdespolisers arbetssätt kan kopplas till de kunskapsbaserade brottsförebyggande metoderna community-oriented policing samt problem- oriented policing. En varsam slutledning tyder på att delar av community-oriented policing som förhållningssätt kan kopplas till områdespolisers uppdrag. Utifrån resultatet kan problem- oriented policing som förhållningssätt till viss del utrönas. Däremot saknas essentiella delar från community-oriented policing och problem-oriented policing, följaktligen tyder det på att metoderna inte implementerats fullt ut. / The purpose of the study was to narrate how community police officer ́s describe their evidence-based crime prevention work in particularly-vulnerable-, risk-, and vulnerable areas. This has been accomplished from qualitative interviews with community police  officer ́s stationed in the mentioned areas. A qualitative content analysis has been applied to study the data material. Furthermore, the material has been analyzed to describe whether and how community police officer ́s work can be connected to evidence-based crime prevention methods, community-oriented policing and problem-oriented policing. A cautious conclusion indicates that some parts of community-oriented policing as an approach can be linked to community police officers’ assignments. Based on the results, problem-oriented policing as an approach can to some extent be established. However, essential parts from community-oriented policing and problem-oriented policing are missing, hence, it indicates that the methods are not fully implemented.