The many faces of nodal policing: Team play and improvisation in Dutch community safety

In this paper we reflect on how one police organization, the Dutch police, have acted to embrace nodal assemblages and nodal governance while they have pioneered a form of ‘conduit policing’ (Shearing, 1999). This strategy, conceived as policing with a ‘nodal orientation’, combines policing attention on flows of people, information and things through infrastructural nodes with the policing of local communities (Project Group Vision on Policing, 2006). We examine four initiatives of the Dutch police that illustrate different aspects of policing assemblages in Amsterdam. The analysis considers h... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Van Steden, Ronald
Wood, Jennifer
Shearing, Clifford
Boutellier, Hans
Dokumenttyp: Journal article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Verlag/Hrsg.: Palgrave Macmillan
Schlagwörter: Dutch police / nodal assemblages / nodal governance
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27061825
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15369

In this paper we reflect on how one police organization, the Dutch police, have acted to embrace nodal assemblages and nodal governance while they have pioneered a form of ‘conduit policing’ (Shearing, 1999). This strategy, conceived as policing with a ‘nodal orientation’, combines policing attention on flows of people, information and things through infrastructural nodes with the policing of local communities (Project Group Vision on Policing, 2006). We examine four initiatives of the Dutch police that illustrate different aspects of policing assemblages in Amsterdam. The analysis considers how these nodes have worked to integrate different, but compatible, conceptions of nodal policing.