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(SpringerBriefs in Criminology) Heath B. Grant - Police Integrity in the Developing World Building a Culture of Lawfulness-Springer International Publishing (2018)

Individual Level Integrity

Chapter 2
Integrity Training The Importance
of a Moral Resoning and Rigorous
Evaluations
Another regular go to in the anti-corruption toolbox of rule of law development professionals is to implement some form of police integrity training.
Defining Police Integrity
The idea that integrity is essential to the effectiveness of police organizations has long been recognized by both the academic and practitioner communities internationally. However, there still remains a significant divide as to exactly how to define integrity, and whether or not the emphasis should be placed on individuals or organizations as a whole. As a result, there is also a split between those that think integrity is something that can be trained, or whether it can only be addressed through some combination of organizational incentives and consequences.
Individual Level Integrity
Most researchers defining police integrity on the individual level focus on a fidelity, in speech and action to the goals and values of the profession (Scharf
2006
; Sykes
1993
; Crank
1998
). This emphasis on adherence to the values of the police profession requires further examination given the at times conflicting view of this internationally and the continuum of police practice from militaristic models to democratic policing principles.
Western policing scholarship tends to classify the goals of the police function into three distinct categories order maintenance, enforcement of the law, and service to the community (e.g. Wilson
1975
). The degree to which each of these functions is emphasized will vary according to the priorities of police leadership within

a particular organization. In discussing the overarching values of the profession, democratic policing models stress the police role as representatives and adherents to the rule of law. Professional policing thus requires individual integrity as measured by the degree to which police functions are carried outwith human dignity, tolerance, and respect regardless of the race, class, position, or any other special circumstance of people with whom the police interact (Scharf
2006
).

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