| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | External oversight and control |
| Authors: | Born, Hans Wills, Aidan Geisler, Gabriel Erny, Matthias |
| Published in: | Toolkit on police integrity |
| Editors of the parent work: | Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces |
| Page(s): | 189 |
| Pages to: | 216 |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | DCAF |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Genf |
| ISBN: | 978-92-9222-190-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 362: Health and social services |
| Abstract: | The police are empowered to detect and prevent violations of the law. It can prove challenging for the police to detect and prevent such violations occurring in their own services. For this reason, there are external oversight and control bodies that monitor the police to ensure they comply with the law. This Chapter 6 explains how that monitoring process works in relation to tackling corruption in police services. It does so by explaining which external institutions engage in oversight of the police and examining comparatively what these institutions do. This chapter provides practical real world examples of how oversight is exercised over police services in order to prevent corruption, and how that oversight process could be improved. This chapter uses the definition of corruption outlined in Chapter 1, which defines it as ‘the abuse of public office for private gain’. The concept of ‘systemic corruption’ is also used here. Systemic corruption is the involvement of all, or the majority, of the police service in corrupt activity, and may involve a complete reorientation of the roles of the police. Systemic corruption may undermine the ability of a police service to prevent crime. This type of situation is particularly pertinent to a discussion of external oversight and control bodies, because if a police service is corrupted systematically, only an external body can effectively counter corruption. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/12678 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute for Risk & Insurance (IRI) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Born, H., Wills, A., Geisler, G., & Erny, M. (2012). External oversight and control. In Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (Ed.), Toolkit on police integrity (pp. 189–216). DCAF.
Born, H. et al. (2012) ‘External oversight and control’, in Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (ed.) Toolkit on police integrity. Genf: DCAF, pp. 189–216.
H. Born, A. Wills, G. Geisler, and M. Erny, “External oversight and control,” in Toolkit on police integrity, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Ed. Genf: DCAF, 2012, pp. 189–216.
BORN, Hans, Aidan WILLS, Gabriel GEISLER und Matthias ERNY, 2012. External oversight and control. In: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (Hrsg.), Toolkit on police integrity. Genf: DCAF. S. 189–216. ISBN 978-92-9222-190-4
Born, Hans, Aidan Wills, Gabriel Geisler, and Matthias Erny. 2012. “External Oversight and Control.” In Toolkit on Police Integrity, edited by Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 189–216. Genf: DCAF.
Born, Hans, et al. “External Oversight and Control.” Toolkit on Police Integrity, edited by Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, DCAF, 2012, pp. 189–216.
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