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The United States isn’t the only nation to enlist the support of volunteers in police work. This chapter takes a look at police volunteerism around the globe. China/Taiwan, Russia, England, Scotland, and Israel were chosen as case studies.
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Kam C. Wong, “Community Policing in Comparative Context: PRC vs. USA 11/11/2000,” Police Newsletter, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/documents/Community_PolicinginChWong.pdf.
- 2.
Lena Y. Zhong, “Community Policing in China; Old Wine in New Bottles,” Police Practice and Research 10, no. 2 (2009): 157–169.
- 3.
Xiaming Chen, “Community and Policing Strategies: A Chinese Approach to Crime Control,” Policing and Society 12, no. 1: 1–13.
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“Does the Long Arm of the Law Need the Community’s Hand?” Beijing Review, May 31, 2007.
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Jeff Martin, “Volunteer Police and the Production of Social Order in a Taiwanese Village,” Taiwan in Comparative Perspective 3 (2011): 33–49.
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Martin, 42.
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George Ginsburgs, ed., Soviet Administrative Law: theory and practice (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 145–146.
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Ibid.
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Beth Knobel, “Volunteer Patrols Join Police on Russian Streets: Crime: Neighborhood enforcers say they leave officers free to concentrate on serious offenses. But some critics fear the force may harass citizens,” Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1994.
- 10.
Michael Shwirtz, “Russian Volunteers Keep on Eye on Citizens, and the Police,” New York Times, March 25, 2009.
- 11.
Sergei Minenko, “Police Assigned to Gay Duty,” Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 59, no. 22 (2007): 14; Valery Panyushkin, “Russian Order,” Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 59, no. 44/45 (2007): 15.
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Max Seddon, “Russia’s Cossacks Start Patrolling Moscow’s Streets,” The Big Story AP, November 27, 2012, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/russias-cossacks-start-patrolling-moscow-streets.
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Ellen Barry, “The Cossacks are Back. May the Hills Tremble,” New York Times, March 17, 2013.
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Ellen Barry, “Russian Governor Signs Up Cossacks to Police Migrants,” New York Times, August 4, 2012.
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Barry, “The Cossacks are Back.”
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Yaffa Moskovich, “The Transformation of the Israeli Civil Guard into a Police Force,” Israel Affairs 19, no. 2 (2013): 353–363.
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“Police Recruitment,” Police Recruitment, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.policecouldyou.co.uk.
- 18.
“What’s it like to do the job?” Police Recruitment, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.policecouldyou.co.uk.
- 19.
“Pay and benefits,” Police Recruitment, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.policecouldyou.co.uk.
- 20.
“Other Roles,” Police Recruitment, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.policecouldyou.co.uk.
- 21.
“Volunteering in Policing,” Police.Uk, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.police.uk/volunteering.
- 22.
“Our History,” Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch Network, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.ourwatch.org.uk.
- 23.
Untitled, Community Care, May 4, 2006, LexisNexis Academic.
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“Welcome to the NACP!” National Association of Chaplains to the Police, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.police-chaplains.org.uk.
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“Volunteer Police Cadets,” Metropolitan Police, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.met.police.uk/cadets/expansion_cadets.html.
- 26.
Ibid.
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“Special Constable FAQs,” Police Scotland, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment/special-constables/special-constable-faq/.
- 28.
“Special Constable—Job Specification,” Police Scotland, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.scotland.police.uk/assets/pdf/132472/job-spec-special-constable.
- 29.
Paul Hutcheon, “Volunteer Police Payment Cut as Force Seeks to Save Money,” The Herald (Glasgow), May 27, 2013; “Special Constable FAQs”.
- 30.
Frank Urquhart, “Police Scotland ax volunteer pilot rescue service,” Scotsman.com, May 7, 2013, http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/police-scotland-axe-volunteer-pilot-rescue-service-1-2991000.
- 31.
“Scottish Police Force Merger Plan Outlined,” BBC News Scotland, July 29, 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12162004; James Cook, “Scots police merger ‘sets example’ to south of the border,” BBC News Scotland, March 30, 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21980816
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“Structure,” Israel Police, accessed July 29, 2013, http://www.police.gov.il/english_contentPage.aspx?pid=4&menuid=5.
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“Civil Guard Celebrates 35th Anniversary,” Israeli Ministry of Public Security, accessed July 29, 2013, http://mops.gov.il/ENGLISH/POLICINGENG/POLICE/Pages/CivilGuard35.aspx.
- 34.
Moskovich.
- 35.
Eitan Meyr, “The Israeli Civil Guard,” Law and Order 48, no. 6 (2000): 129–131.
- 36.
Juliana Ochs, “On Guard Duty in Jerusalem, Volunteers Find Even the Slightest Doubt Demands Immediate Action Suspicious Minds,” Forward, March 19, 2004, http://forward.com/articles/6551/on-guard-duty-in-jerusalem-volunteers-find-even-t/
- 37.
Ibid.
- 38.
David Ratner, “Civil Guard Bridges Arab Community Police Gap,” November 1, 2004, http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/civil-guard-bridges-arab-community-police-gap-1.138924.
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Bartels, E.C. (2014). Comparative Perspective. In: Volunteer Police in the United States. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02365-6_5
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