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- Title
The impact of rural policing on the private lives of New Zealand police officers.
- Authors
Buttle, John; Fowler, Corrine; Williams, Mei Wah
- Abstract
This article is concerned with perceived differences between rural and urban policing in New Zealand. More specifically with how officers view the effect that rural and urban policing has on their private lives and those of their family members. Using grounded theory as a research method because of its reflexivity in regard to generating questions from emergent data, 16 participants were interviewed. Seven of these participants were stationed in an urban location while nine were recruited from rural stations. The results suggest that rural policing has a greater and often more stressful impact on the private lives of police officers and their families. This suggests a need for the New Zealand Police as an organisation to engage in policy-making that gives greater recognition to the rural aspects of policing, with a particular focus being the provision of support for the families of rural officers.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; LAW enforcement; RURAL police; GROUNDED theory; INTERVIEWING; FAMILIES; PRIVACY
- Publication
International Journal of Police Science & Management, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 4, p596
- ISSN
1461-3557
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1350/ijps.2010.12.4.202