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Victoria Herrington
Victoria
Herrington
Andrew Millie
Andrew
Millie
Applying reassurance policing: is it 'business as usual'?
Loughborough University
2006
Reassurance policing
Signal crimes
Performance indicators
Community
Citizen
Neighbourhood
Collective efficacy
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
2006-12-18 16:29:42
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Applying_reassurance_policing_is_it_business_as_usual_/9477668
Public reassurance, and its importance as a function of policing, has recently gained prominence in England and Wales. ‘‘Reassurance’’ has been included as part of the 2002 Police Reform Act, successive National Policing Plans and the 2004 Police Reform White Paper. It has evolved from concern that while the crime rate has been falling, public perception has been that it has continued to rise. This disparity has been dubbed the ‘‘reassurance gap’’, with reassurance policing seen as a way of filling that gap. This article discusses the implementation of the National Reassurance Policing Programme (NRPP) in England. It identifies conceptual and practical issues arising from its application, and discusses the trialling of this developing concept in an operational policing environment. The authors ask whether the perspective behind the approach*/namely, signal crimes*/ has been adopted, or if reassurance policing is simply ‘‘business as usual’’. Specifically, they consider a potential tension between a community- or citizen-driven policing style as promoted by the NRPP through the signal crimes perspective, and a policing regime driven by performance indictors and targets.