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POLICE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
2019, VOL. 20, NO. 1, 1-2 Routledge
https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2018.1554097 Taylor& Francis Group
From the Editor-in-Chief
It is a great pleasure for all of us in IPES, International Police Executive Symposium, (www.IPES.info)
and, PPR, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, which is affiliated to IPES, that we
are now beginning the 20th Volume. Our twenty-year mission of collaboration between police
practice and research, as well as encouraging the use of research globally to enhance police capacity
to serve the people better will continue in full vigor and dedication.
The 30th meeting of IPES will be hosted in Belgrade June 30th to the 5th of July 2019 and will be
focused on a theme that lies very near the heart of PPR. That theme is 'Contemporary Police
Challenges in Light of a New World and New Knowledge.' This theme has emerged through the
ideas of several PPR Editors.
PPR Editor, Clifford Shearing (2018, November), wrote to me saying, 'My suggested title would
be 'Police, the New Harmscapes and Justice.' PPR Editor Gary Cordner (2018, November)
conveyed his thoughts commenting, I wonder about the re-emergence of right-wing politics
and more autocratic governments around the world. How will that affect policing? Can we have
democratic policing when democracy seems in retreat? Can police help moderate this trend or is it
inevitable that they will shift with the ill wind?
Founding Managing Editor of PPR, Arvind Verma (2018, November) wrote to me that he has
been 'examining the service functions of police in India. It is clear that all police forces spend
more time addressing problems of the people and providing services requested by the citizens.
However, these are rarely recognized and do not figure in official statistics for only crime and
order maintenance cases are recorded and reported. I think for this conference Police as Problem
Solvers: Service Provided to the People may be considered. Goldstein had conceptualized this,
and it is time we revisit this concept.'
Right at this point, I am in PIVOT, Sydney, Australia where my wife, an Editor of PPR,
Dr. Ana Das, MD, is receiving innovative treatment on post-stroke rehabilitation. While here
I have spoken at legnth with two principal actors in this innovative approach to rehabilitation,
Frank Cuiuli and Josie Wakim. They have suggested (2018, November), that the upcoming IPES
meeting should consider 'The topic, how to combat the effects of long-term trauma and stress on
policing outcomes, which would cover a broad set of topics that people could contribute papers
towards'. They added, 'A subcategory is to focus on police mental health and trauma [where]
some issues go hidden which impact police and policing worldwide.'
Managing Editor of PPR, Carla Lewandowski (2018, November), who put together the final
topic and will serve as the Rapporteur for the Belgrade Meeting wrote to me (2018, November)
thus, I really like the idea of having an umbrella topic like 'contemporary police challenges'. I do
think we are living in a 'new world' because of the style of governance we have currently in the
USA but also some of the challenges to democracy abroad, like in Hungary. The idea of
harmscapes then comes into play because they are global challenges that we need to face
together. With all these comments from PRP Editors in mind, Carla added, possible topics
and questions for the 2019 IPES can include:
* Service provided to the people; are police required to solve all problems?
* Democratic policing when democracy seems in retreat; can police help moderate this trend
alternatively, is it inevitable that they will shift with the ill wind?
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