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Category Archives: Africa
Gallup 2022 Global Law & Order Report
Gallup’s 2022 Global Law & Order Report is available here. It reports on an index comprised of 4 survey items including confidence in police, feelings of safety, and recent property and personal crime victimization. Twelve countries scored 90 or higher … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America
Tagged Afghanistan, Congo, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Gabon, Iceland, Indonesia, Norway, Portugal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UAE, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia
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Global crime trends
Interpol recently released its first ever Global Crime Trend report, summarized in this column. More than 60% of police officials see “money laundering, ransomware, phishing and online scams as high or very high threats,” and over 70% “expect crimes such … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America
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Mexico leads “most violent cities” list in 2021
The 8 most violent cities in the world in 2021 were all in Mexico, according to the top-50 list compiled annually by the Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice. That marks the 5th consecutive year that a Mexican … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Central America, North America, South America
Tagged Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, USA
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Police Training to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population
A new report from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences on “Police Training to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population” is available for download here. The purpose of the report, which builds on an organizing framework published … Continue reading
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2021 Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International’s 2021 perceptions of public corruption index is available here. Among 180 countries, the least corrupt were Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand. The most corrupt were South Sudan, Syria, and Somalia. Over the last 5 years, the countries that … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America
Tagged Angola, Armenia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Honduras, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Syria
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Beyond #EndSARS in Nigeria
This column updates police reform progress in Nigeria since the government dissolved the infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in 2020. Judicial panels were set up in each state to investigate police brutality and extra-judicial killings. The Lagos panel produced 32 … Continue reading
Community policing not a quick fix in developing countries
A recent study of community police in 6 developing countries failed to find evidence of crime reductions or improved trust in policing, as reported here. The massive study involved community policing efforts in “more than 700 localities and testing them … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, South America
Tagged Brazil, Colombia, Liberia, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda
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Wildlife rangers in CAR
Wildlife rangers in the Central African Republic have an extremely difficult and dangerous job trying to keep poachers, militias, big-game hunters, and nomadic cattle herdsmen from decimating wildlife and wildlands in the country’s huge national parks, as reported here. Bushmeat … Continue reading
Police failure in South Africa
South Africa has recently experienced major unrest crippling economic infrastructure, but “Police were often missing in action as thousands raided malls and shut down transport, supply chains and logistics hubs.” This column lays the blame on a decade of deteriorating police performance, … Continue reading
New e-learning on security sector governance & reform
The Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance has posted a new e-learning available here. The 3-4 hour course “provides participants with an understanding and overview of SSG/R, its key principles, actors and contexts within which SSG/R takes place.” The target … Continue reading
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World Policing 