An integrated development approach for policing : the case of Operation Good - Hope

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This study was embarked upon to identify an alternative approach to policing. It wasan attempt to investigate whether an integrated development approach will be moresuccessful in preventing crime and violence than heterogeneous police task teams andoperations. Operation Good - Hope in the Western Cape, a SAPS crime preventionstrategy to police the urban terror and related crimes (PAGAD and gang violence),was the focus of the study.Plurality of research methodology was introduced to compile data. The data collectedwas analysed in relation to the topic and the objective of the study and to the researchhypothesis.Based on the data analysis the following are the main research findings:• a working relationship existed between various SAPS components withinOperation Good - Hope, but was not properly managed and coordinated;• Operation Good - Hope did not allowed for external collaboration withrelevant stakeholders and showed no sense of partnership;• Operation Good - Hope did not police the social crime problems; and• Operation Good - Hope was not shaped by a clear analysis and cohesivestrategy.The findings of the study gave rise to the following recommendations:• That a local - based strategy for crime prevention be develop and lead by localgovernment to normalise crime and violence; • That a provincial framework be developed for an integrated developmentapproach to police and stabalise serious violent crimes;• That crime prevention solutions must be based on factors that causes crime;and• A crime prevention strategy be designed and implemented.Finally, the study indicates that provincial crime prevention strategies should besupplementive to local - based crime prevention strategies, to simultaneouslystabalise and normalise crime and violence.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University