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Title: | Who Do People Turn to for Policing in Sierra Leone? |
Author: | Baker, Bruce |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 371-390 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | police crime prevention national security Military, Defense and Arms Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000500273953 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=452ABF91D5DFFBB45468 |
Abstract: | In Sierra Leone there are a surprising number of policing agencies offering citizens an array of choice for crime protection and crime investigation. Based on research conducted between February and March 2005, the author examines three types of police structure: those operated by the Sierra Leone State (Sierra Leone Police, mine monitors, beach police, traffic wardens); private and community structures that have State approval (Police Local Partnership Boards, work-based associations, customary structures such as chiefdoms, commercial security provided by private companies, peace monitors); and those that are unauthorized by the State (youth groups, mob justice). The fragmentation of policing calls for a distinctive policing policy. The government has to define clearly the desired relationship between the various policing structures and set the parameters. The principle of a national strategy of law and order that integrates, regulates, mobilizes and empowers all those willing to preserve law and order in an acceptable manner could improve the quality of security in Sierra Leone's communities without having to expand State policing, which seems a policy beyond the capacity of the Sierra Leone government for some time to come. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |