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1. 1. Community-Policing in Kikuyu : Assessing the need for organizational change within a Police department from an institutional approach.

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV

   Author : Thomas Lidén; [2012]
   Keywords : Kenya; Police; Police reforms; Organizational change; Community-policing; Africa; Institutionalism;

   Abstract : Focusing on a community-policing pilot-project initiated in Kikuyu, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, the current paper seeks to create an understanding concerning local premises for community-policing implementation. It is based on a field study that combined participatory observations and semi-structured interviews to investigate how the management of the pilot-project on the one side and the local police officers on the other side perceives the latter’s professional duty in Kikuyu. READ MORE