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Community policing and the New Zealand Police: Correlates of attitudes toward the work world in a community‐oriented national police organization

L. Thomas Winfree Jr (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, )
Greg Newbold (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

Policing: An International Journal

ISSN: 1363-951X

Article publication date: 1 December 1999

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Abstract

Police in New Zealand have a well established community‐policing tradition. The current research is based on a survey of 440 officers, or roughly 6 per cent of the New Zealand Police’s sworn personnel. We focused on the personal values, interpersonal relationships, and work situations of the officers as a way of understanding their respective levels of satisfaction with their jobs and assessment of their superiors. The goal was to determine the extent to which job satisfaction and perceptions of supervisory support varied within a national police force officially committed to community policing. The findings suggest that, even in a national police with an avowed community‐policing orientation, not all police officers perceived the work world in the same terms. We further address the policy implications of these findings.

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Winfree, L.T. and Newbold, G. (1999), "Community policing and the New Zealand Police: Correlates of attitudes toward the work world in a community‐oriented national police organization", Policing: An International Journal, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 589-618. https://doi.org/10.1108/13639519910299553

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