Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Policing in a Multicultural Society
- 2 Discrimination and Police Work
- 3 Strategies for Change
- 4 Re-examining Police Culture
- 5 Police and Minorities in New South Wales
- 6 Under New Management
- 7 Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: The Paper Chase
- 8 Cop It Sweet: Reform by Media
- 9 Processes and Outcomes of Change
- 10 Changing Police Culture
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
6 - Under New Management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Policing in a Multicultural Society
- 2 Discrimination and Police Work
- 3 Strategies for Change
- 4 Re-examining Police Culture
- 5 Police and Minorities in New South Wales
- 6 Under New Management
- 7 Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement: The Paper Chase
- 8 Cop It Sweet: Reform by Media
- 9 Processes and Outcomes of Change
- 10 Changing Police Culture
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Unlike countries such as Britain and the United States, police forces in Australia are mainly organised along State or Territory boundaries. A survey by Bayley (1992) of the organisation of police forces in five English-speaking countries found that Australia has the least number of autonomous forces: seven State forces and a federal force, compared with 43 in Great Britain, 461 in Canada, and over 15,000 in the United States. Since the area covered by the seven State forces is about the size of the United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii, police forces in Australia are the largest in terms of geographical coverage (ibid.: 512–14). They are also among the largest with respect to the number of officers per force and population covered. According to Bayley, the average size of Australian police forces in 1988–89 was 4978 police officers and the average population covered was 2.3 million.
The New South Wales Police Service, which consisted of about 13,000 police officers and 3000 civilians in 1992 and an annual expenditure of close to a thousand million dollars (NSWPS 1992), is the largest police force in Australia. It serves the entire State population of around 6 million, covering an area three times the size of the United Kingdom. The functions of the NSW Police Service, like other Australian police forces, are primarily those of law enforcement, protection of life and property, order maintenance and crime control, although the State police also regulate traffic and work with the Australian Federal Police and other Commonwealth law-enforcement agencies to enforce federal laws.
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- Changing Police CulturePolicing in a Multicultural Society, pp. 117 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997